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by gbacon 6y ago
Architects often get mad when non-architects conflate the terms “modernism,” “postmodernism,” “Brutalism,” etc. They love telling people that, say, “Frank Gehry is actually REACTING to postmodernism.” These terminological disputes can obsc
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by gbacon 6y ago
I got to meet Larry Wall at the first Perl Conference in San Jose. I think Tom introduced us. I was dumbstruck: “Wow, I don’t know what to say; thank you.” He smiled awkwardly: “You’re welcome, I guess.” Textbook Larry. Randal and I were on
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by gbacon 6y ago
Possibly a reference to /{usr,var}/spool.
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Temptation bundling: Use instant gratification to finish least favorite tasks(doist.com)
3 points by gbacon 6y ago|1 comments
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by gbacon 6y ago
For a YouTube walkthrough, see agadmator at https://youtu.be/8wCJalNkTEI
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White to move and win: beautiful van Breukelen puzzle (c. 1987)(en.chessbase.com)
2 points by gbacon 6y ago|1 comments
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by gbacon 6y ago
According to a Math.SE answer[0], such a game ends in a draw for about 85% of games. [0]: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/846750/34343
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by gbacon 6y ago
The game may have become a draw due to insufficient material, e.g. , K-KB, K-KN, and of course K-K. Chess also has a 50-move rule that results in a draw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty-move_rule
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by gbacon 6y ago
It derives from another: MYOB.
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by gbacon 7y ago
We’ve all seen the time series of diagnosed cases in Italy versus the U.S. in which the latter appears to track closely but with a time delay. Is it relevant that the U.S. population is some 5 to 6 times Italy’s? Is it meaningful to compare
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by gbacon 7y ago
“I’ll see … and raise” is known as a string raise and is seen as bad form or even cheating. Actions in poker must be atomic. https://upswingpoker.com/angle-shooting-string-bet-raise/
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by gbacon 7y ago
So it is—the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it.
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by gbacon 7y ago
When these threads come up, it’s staggering to see how much mindshare Perl has lost. This particular case of code that grows too klunky for the Unix shell was a key motivator for the language’s invention and ought to be THE final outpost,
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by gbacon 7y ago
Integration tests can be easier to write, are necessary, but can also be much slower to run. Yes, it’s possible to write bad unit tests; the same is true of integration tests. You need both unit tests and integration tests.
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by gbacon 7y ago
A tool that is stable, well supported, has outstanding documentation, thoroughly tested, won’t capriciously break your code, and outperforms the rest of the pack is not the unfortunate case.
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by gbacon 7y ago
Larry Wall referred to the old dichotomy of the “manipulexity” of C for reaching into low-level system details versus the “whipuptitude” of shell, awk, sed, and friends. He targeted Perl for the sweet spot in the unfilled gap between them.
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by gbacon 7y ago
Do you have data on the relative sizes of the Perl and awk install bases? Perl is the language, and perl is the implementation. Spelling it with ALL CAPS announces that someone knows little about the language.
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by gbacon 7y ago
Wrong is a bit harsh for a convention or semantics, more like imprecisely worded.
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by gbacon 7y ago
“Too much for bash, Goose; I’m switching to Perl!”
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by gbacon 7y ago
I should have been clear that I lean toward your side of the issue in that a blanket policy for the entire term does seem a bit extreme but completely without value. If I were pushed to defend the instructor’s policy of a particular editor,
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by gbacon 7y ago
I’ve seen Java developers completely lost with no idea where to start debugging an installation in a lab environment because they had no IDE, JDK only. Sure, you might argue that it’s an unlikely scenario, but never say never. CS is one of
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by gbacon 7y ago
Yes, and it’s a fun way to pass the time, but GPS and ADS-B receivers won’t give you td_id_weight_on_wheels or td_id_fltdata_wind_direction.
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by gbacon 7y ago
I have combined PTO, vacation and sick leave, and like keeping a healthy balance.
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by gbacon 7y ago
No. Perl and Raku are different, albeit related, languages.
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Multiple ways to compute e in Raku(blogs.perl.org)
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The Limits of Logic(medium.com)
2 points by gbacon 7y ago|0 comments
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by gbacon 7y ago
The physicist can drop a stone with a certain mass from a tower of a particular height and can predict that the next time she drops that rock from that tower, it will take the same amount of time to hit the ground. Social science, which is
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by gbacon 7y ago
When you don’t pay for a service, you are not the customer but the vector to get to the real customer. Think: Television, radio, Google, Facebook, healthcare. There are gigantic pools of funds out there in quasi-private insurance, Medicare,
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by gbacon 7y ago
That’s not the most mature way to state it, but you have a reasonable point. I try to be careful about monitoring my kids’ behavior in public places. When people go for a meal out, they are paying for a nice time and not to hear screaming k
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by gbacon 7y ago
Economic actors make decisions at the margin.

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