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by gatlin 15y ago
I don't think the things you two are saying are mutually exclusive. Perl is ugly in inexperienced or rushed hands, and other languages do have flexibility and general purpose. I will say that I have found my muse in Perl, and that it allows
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by gatlin 15y ago
If I'm not mistaken, libev and AnyEvent are designed by the same guy (and I think AnyEvent was what libev was created for). Also, check out Coro (coroutines), Tatsumaki and plackperl.org for other awesome libraries and tools that rival an
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by gatlin 15y ago
> "I find it amazingly unlikely that men and women are identically suited to every type of work. Men and women have historically, on evolutionary time scales, focussed on different types of activities." Vague statements with no justific
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by gatlin 15y ago
I wish more young women knew about Ada Lovelace. She attempted to do something entirely unprecedented and in her very short life understood the implications of computing technology. What's even cooler is that her program had no bugs.
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by gatlin 15y ago
That's what I was grasping for with caching, and I think I got carried away thinking about preemptive caching and conflated an idea with a common use. Either way, thanks. And, your article is fucking brilliant. I might ape its style soon in
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by gatlin 15y ago
Thanks! Maybe the author of the article will agree.
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by gatlin 15y ago
Another commenter made a great point that knowing how and when to use these things is likely more difficult, but having a good grasp of the concepts is important. Here is a minute of me stabbing at analogies: Coroutines: A subroutine is a b
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by gatlin 15y ago
This may go completely unnoticed, but I'll talk to myself a bit in case someone ever reads this. In my experience, people who want to learn how to program find setting up a development environment painful and tricky. Hence, learning tools l
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Show HN: Oyster, an interactive Perl eval server(github.com)
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by gatlin 15y ago
My friend and I just wrote something today that I hope will become the bedrock of a similar service, but for Perl: Oyster ( http://github.com/gatlin/oyster ), so named because it contains a Perl. We tied Redis lists to filehandles, and then
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by gatlin 15y ago
I am on track to be a public school math / CS teacher and articles like this make me reconsider my choice to go the "legit teacher" route (as opposed to mentoring in my own way, free from the restrictions of public school systems and their
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by gatlin 15y ago
It would take a Herculean effort to start such a project, and it would be virtually guaranteed that 1) few people would trust it since it's not a name-brand and 2) it would be several years before it had feature parity. The social and techn
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by gatlin 15y ago
I am not a Randroid or very libertarian but I like Howard Roark's way of dealing with clients: you ask me to build X, and I will do it the best way I know how. If you want so damn much control over the how then you build it. It irks me
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by gatlin 15y ago
I am relatively new to HN and have _read about_ but not _seen_ an anti-testing mindset around here. I imagine this article will stir that debate if it exists. Can anyone tell me why they would not want to write tests? I have no biases here.
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by gatlin 15y ago
For a project in school I used clasp + gringo to make a labor scheduler for my 100+ person co-op (I'm in charge of that). It's amazing how fast it really is. I'm very interested in bringing facilities like this to other high-level languages
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by gatlin 15y ago
I've recently dived into Perl. Its most powerful feature, in my relatively short experience, is that it provides powerful semantics for everything - text manipulation, symbol table manipulation at runtime, packages, etc - and it also just g
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by gatlin 15y ago
I don't believe the LGPL forbids static linking of object code licensed under it, though it's been a long time since I read it.
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by gatlin 15y ago
> In other words, this could have been a perfectly typical and rational IT or CS decision, like the many similar decisions we all make every day; but this one had quite atypical economic consequences. In other words, it is the exact sam
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by gatlin 15y ago
The most worrying thing to me is that despite the frequent discussions on HN, there are people in this thread who would rather assume that there is no problem, and this is just the way things are. Until blatant ignorance and misconceptions
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by gatlin 15y ago
It is probably a safe bet to assume the parent knows this.
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by gatlin 15y ago
>Then I started to realize that there can’t such a theorem. He accidentally his whole premise.
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by gatlin 15y ago
Two week old thread is stale, but regardless: thanks for the information; I'm young enough that AOL was already in the "just an ISP" stage by the time I was subject to it.
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by gatlin 15y ago
I'm fortunate enough to live in Austin, TX and we have several Alamo Drafthouse locations here ( http://originalalamo.com ). They treat movies like events: most locations during peak times show current fare, but they also have "Weird Wednes
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by gatlin 15y ago
You called him petty twice for adhering to definitions, but without these definitions it is difficult to speak precisely. The other part of your comment was much more constructive: perhaps our definition should be amended. Until the, no, th
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by gatlin 15y ago
> without a decent text editor/full ssh capabilities. I routinely do dev work on my CR-48. While it may not be your preferred editor, vim provides syntax highlighting, code folding, shell access and multitudes of other options which can
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by gatlin 15y ago
> AOL killed CompuServe. The Internet killed AOL. I remember quite distinctly that AOL connected me to the Internet. I may be misunderstanding the article though.
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by gatlin 15y ago
I have a nifty idea for a small project which would make use of libjingle, and I'm about ready to go buy a camera for my desktop to work on it. Is libjingle to the point where I could interact with my Google Talk contacts in their browsers?
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by gatlin 15y ago
You're correct. It relies on good teachers and motivated students. I am still in training; I enjoy my PBL experiences because I have a knack for engaging students; my peers who don't have the same rapport tend to hate it, which is then refl
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by gatlin 15y ago
"I can barely find the stomach to blame Apple's engineering team for prioritizing strict and timely license compliance somewhere below: Making their boss Steve Jobs happy, releasing features that paying customers care about, and sleeping."
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by gatlin 15y ago
I have never raised VC money for anything. However, I think this list contains a lot of good advice for any time you are requesting bids for some service or product. I am on the board of a large cooperative housing organization and we have

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