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by jbjohns 15y ago
No, this is the taste of upcoming medical problems.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Well I'm american, have learned German and am learning French and I think I would have had a much easier time with French. The actual German grammar isn't that English like really. It's a kind of reverse old English. It has really strict
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by jbjohns 15y ago
No way. English certainly has germanic roots but it was more recently influenced by french. We have over 17k french words in English where as in german the word might have a german root but it's no longer recognizable in most cases (e.g.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Homes isn't really a strong point of the US. They are extremely cheaply built and leak temperature like a sieve.
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by jbjohns 16y ago
Even worse, those who picked well missed out. There were banks who realized this was going to blow up and stayed out of it with the idea of buying the banks that failed. What did they learn from this crisis? They missed out on millions b
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by jbjohns 16y ago
I think that's probably doable if you're just looking for a business to support a mediocre salary for a person or two. Of course getting a Google/Facebook/whatever out of something like this was have just as bad of odds as any other method
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by jbjohns 16y ago
He's talking about the Australian black list (which I think is no longer in play).
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by jbjohns 16y ago
>The curious thing about the demand for bytecode in browsers is that there doesn't seem to be a practical reason to do it. Really? Javascript is an opinionated high level language. I wonder how many people using Javascript these days
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by jbjohns 16y ago
It does. I've got it now, seems very nice so far.
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by jbjohns 16y ago
>Can we please move away from JS and move to a nice IL? A thousand times this. The web is playing a bigger and bigger role in computing but IMO it's hamstrung a bit by having it's "assembler" Javascript. I think a lot of developers ar
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by jbjohns 16y ago
>I'm no expert Well they are, so perhaps we should give their word a bit more credibility than yours?
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by jbjohns 16y ago
This would be a problem at every big company I've worked for that didn't already have something. Obviously it isn't a problem everywhere but knowing what I do about big companies I would say it's more likely than not. And I wouldn't call i
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by jbjohns 16y ago
You didn't read my comment. The point is that in a big org I don't have CPAN. Not without a big fight. And the perl language comes with do-it-yourself OO (they're not packaging Moose with the distro now are they?) and a bunch of other
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by jbjohns 16y ago
You listed a lot of things you need to get to get Perl to work for you. In big orgs that would mean a lot of battling. For me it's just not worth the fight when e.g. Python just comes with half those things.
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by jbjohns 16y ago
Personally if you're looking to learn another language I wouldn't bother with Perl. It's close enough to what you already know that you probably wont learn much [1]. You'll get more milage out of trying something like Smalltalk (Squeak is
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by jbjohns 16y ago
Do you believe in the free market? If so, you really don't see anything wrong with companies conspiring together to constrict that market for employees?
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by jbjohns 16y ago
It actually works pretty good. That's how it works in Switzerland. Everyone pays around 1% of their salary and people who lose their job draw 80% of salary up to around 8k/mo for around a year and a half. This goes for contractors as wel
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by jbjohns 16y ago
"everything" isn't going to be free until everything is free. It's not fair to expect people to just freely give away software for nothing in return when the rest of society doesn't work like that. People say "oh but you can just use th
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by jbjohns 16y ago
On Linux. I don't believe all Unix OSes have that requirement.
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by jbjohns 16y ago
Except that you don't have job security precisely because you're not going into management. Cost of living raises for 15 years without moving up the ladder (i.e. going into management) make you stick out like a soar thumb. In my experienc
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by jbjohns 16y ago
I don't get why technical people who don't want to go in management sign on as permanent employees. Why deal with all that career review nonsense, etc. when as a technical person you have no track anyway?
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by jbjohns 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem Do you have anything to comment on the article ?
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by jbjohns 16y ago
Political correctness is the security blanket of the simple minded.
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by jbjohns 16y ago
Then why is it done if there's no reason? There is a huge risk for certain people to leave wikileaks alone. I'd say that if there is a briber there is virtually no risk for him/her what-so-ever.
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by jbjohns 16y ago
>I just don’t think there is any good evidence for this being a conspiracy. For us, there's no evidence for anything. All we know is that someone powerful governments don't like has been accused of some very suspicious sounding charges
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by jbjohns 16y ago
Just because there are nuts out there with insane conspiracy theories don't mean there are no such thing as a conspiracy. It's very open what Wikileaks is doing and it's very obvious that a lot of powerful people want it stopped. If you a
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by jbjohns 17y ago
You don't have to have static typing to do type analysis. Look at what these guys are/were doing: http://www.strongtalk.org/
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by jbjohns 17y ago
Cool, then I'll give it a look. Thanks.
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by jbjohns 17y ago
Does down vote mean "disagree" now? This message may not be what we want to hear, but it seems like a legit comment.
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by jbjohns 17y ago
Isn't this similar to what berkley db does? EDIT: Genuine curiosity, not trying to make a point.

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