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by fuzzix 14y ago
More on this : https://speakerdeck.com/stevan_little/perl-is-not-dead-it-is... http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/01/how-forking-perl-5...
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Moe - An -OFun prototype of an Ultra Modern Perl 5(github.com)
5 points by fuzzix 14y ago|2 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Is that NemID? Friend of mine told me about that, my first thought was the situation with Internet Explorer in South Korea...
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Ah yes, I was wondering why I kept the plugin functionality of Java around. My HP JetDirect print server also uses a small mass of applets to perform advanced functions like setting an IP or finding out if the printer is online.
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by fuzzix 14y ago
"We're not patching it" That's not what was said. They don't maintain it.
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by fuzzix 14y ago
It made the point about being able to distinguish fine colour gradients virtually impossible to verify - the background kept changing. Also, it slowed site scrolling to a crawl on this reasonably beefy desktop machine.
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by fuzzix 14y ago
An aside, I believe the early computer witnessed by Lawrence Waterhouse in Cryptonomicon used this mercury column system, it was described as visibly moving up and down inside the columns. I hadn't heard of anything like it at the time, it
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Cool things you can do with Perl 5.14(blogs.perl.org)
3 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Does Perl make us of a lot of characters you can't find on your keyboard? Sure, you can use backticks shell style, but you'll probably have better luck with IPC::Open3. Perl's strings look pretty much the same as everyone else's strings.
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Well, I mis-clicked and downvoted this - my apologies.
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Email validation is indeed a complex and occasionally surprising beast. Clearly this regex is impractical, but any validation you invent yourself is likely incorrect. The best way to validate email addresses remains sending an email to them
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Sinclair BASIC comes to Raspberry Pi(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by fuzzix 14y ago|1 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Hey now, it sounds like you haven't embraced the Agile way. Next you'll be looking for specifications and time to do the work properly.
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by fuzzix 14y ago
"[Insert joke about Python being so intuitive and easy to use no one asks questions about it]." Hey, that must be true of Perl too! :)
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by fuzzix 14y ago
If you'd like to listen in on these, you could try the Wide-band Web SDR: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ (Requires Java plugin)
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Pirate Bay Censored in Ireland After Mysterious Court Order(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983(alcatel-lucent.com)
47 points by fuzzix 14y ago|4 comments
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How did Perl gain a reputation for being a write-only language?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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Map of CPAN - The Movie(blogs.perl.org)
29 points by fuzzix 14y ago|7 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
"GOF patterns are indeed language agnostic" I enjoyed this series of articles published some years ago making the case that many of the useful design patterns are built into Perl already: http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/06/13/design1.html h
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by fuzzix 14y ago
"Along the same lines, I've always had the thought that the reason IPv6 adoption is taking so long is because encryption is actually built into the protocol" Are you talking about IPSec? This is still optional in IPv6 and available using IP
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by fuzzix 14y ago
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22... Search sorted by points?
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Time to pull this one out again, Fibonacci Flim-Flam: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm My own experience with editing windows is that I'll need different dimensions for different tasks. While a vim-plugin or such that did
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by fuzzix 14y ago
"So I spent 10 minutes writing a little script that checks for mouse movement and clears a pre-populated field. If the field isn't empty, bot it is" Nice idea. I tend not to use the mouse a whole lot once the 'reply' link has been clicked,
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by fuzzix 14y ago
The Pi is a veritable supercomputer when compared to, say, the Sinclair ZX81 - A handful of kilobytes of RAM max, ~3MHz Z80 chip... There is a ZX81-based web server public on the web, I won't link it here for obvious reasons. (Search for "S
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Entirely Predictable Failures (video)(infoq.com)
2 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Sure. http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/17/tiobe-index-is-being-gam...
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by fuzzix 14y ago
"I wonder if it is because its big brother Perl, which it used to tease, is no longer around to tease." Excuse me? Perl is doing just fine. The Python community doesn't really need a whipping boy, does it? It was quite offputting to me when
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Here's a peer review: http://michaelgrayer.posterous.com/in-which-i-blow-a-gasket-... Since PRNewswire/Sustainable Food Trust didn't seem to employ a critical eye to examine the conclusions of the study. edit Further criticism of the de
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by fuzzix 14y ago
"If it's right for you to give up a good job, you'll know it." I thought I knew, but it turns out the flexibility (hours, teleworking) I had in $previous_gig was something I took for granted. I enjoy the work I do now, but it can be stressf

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