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by jergosh 15y ago
There is a lot to be gained by designing a language that is easier to use than C++ while being at least as fast and that's what Google is probably betting on. GC saves a lot of programmer's time and they don't care about tiny embedded syste
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by jergosh 15y ago
This is just a facet of a bigger issue: how come when you want a dynamically typed, scripting language you have plenty of choice but when you want an alternative to C/C++ (i. e. general purpose, compiled to actual machine code -- no VM, no
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by jergosh 15y ago
Prices start at EUR 9500 so it must be a niche product ;)
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by jergosh 16y ago
aka "How not to implement Fibonacci sequence"
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What does the front-end of an online hacker store look like?(boingboing.net)
3 points by jergosh 16y ago|0 comments
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Wakemate website down(wakemate.com)
1 points by jergosh 16y ago|0 comments
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by jergosh 16y ago
And the nether regions of those pins are insulated so that if a plug is halfway into a socket and something bridges the pins, it can't make contact. That's not really true, you can still get electrocuted if you put you finger on both bolt
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by jergosh 16y ago
500, after being primed by estimates in the article
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by jergosh 16y ago
Just bought it, entertaining stuff ;) E. g. loved how what happens with collagen is broken down (ahem).
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by jergosh 16y ago
Waiting for XXX combinator...
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by jergosh 16y ago
Has been advocated before, notably in the Practice of Programming: "Parentheses specify grouping and can be used to make the intent clear even when they are not required. (...) Seasoned program- mers might omit them, because the relational
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by jergosh 16y ago
This reminds me seeing a Facebook group warning about a rapist in some area and how 357 people (almost exclusively girls) "liked" it. ( http://pl-pl.facebook.com/pages/UWAGA-Gwalciciel-grasuje-w-P... in Polish).
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Being negative helps decision making(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by jergosh 16y ago|0 comments
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by jergosh 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_and_non-rhotic_accents
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by jergosh 16y ago
I love how "What a load of self-indulgent adolescent crap." can by juxtaposed with his 'About me' photo: http://subtextual.org/AboutMe.htm
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Tony Blair lands job with Khosla Ventures(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by jergosh 16y ago|1 comments
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by jergosh 16y ago
Saying that Dijkstra blogged sounds very wrong somehow.
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Twitwee the Twitter cuckoo clock(haroonbaig.com)
1 points by jergosh 16y ago|0 comments
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by jergosh 16y ago
"compared with their more impulsive peers, highly self-disciplined eighth graders earned higher GPAs and achievement-test scores, were more likely to gain admission to a selective high school, had fewer school absences, spent more time on t
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by jergosh 16y ago
So why exactly is the accuser's identity protected, as opposed to Dr. Evans'?
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by jergosh 16y ago
Ah. It doesn't actually say 'bad fellatio.'
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Oblique Strategies(joshharrison.net)
1 points by jergosh 16y ago|0 comments
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Unusual and amusing English words(users.tinyonline.co.uk)
32 points by jergosh 16y ago|21 comments
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by jergosh 16y ago
I agree that many constructs (s///, tr//, ``) will be familiar to someone with Unix background, but I'm not sure if they would qualify as a novice (many CS first years are unfamiliar, and in fields like bioinformatics -- where Perl happens
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by jergosh 16y ago
Advocating principle of least astonishment for Perl is like a giraffe trying to breakdance.
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by jergosh 16y ago
That's a rather twisted reasoning, with Perl 6 on the doorstep ;)
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by jergosh 16y ago
It's all fine until you have to work with bad legacy code ;) My last project at work was rewriting a 4k line monstrosity in Perl into 500 lines of Python which do exactly the same. I can't even blame the original authors (it was likely thei
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by jergosh 16y ago
Some do ;)
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by jergosh 16y ago
Why not just write Python in Python instead ;)?
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by jergosh 16y ago
The whole article fails to mention any advantage of Perl over the languages it's compared to (wonder why). The sooner Perl falls into obscurity, the better.

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