jim_bailie

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by jim_bailie 8y ago
Lua and AWK. I'm inspired! I'm going to rewrite the Perl 5 interpreter in Go. Take that Larry. Just kidding. I'm all for scratching an itch, but why rewrite all these well established tools?
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
Check out Ace Editor too: https://ace.c9.io/
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
Nice, but too cool
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
Very good insight. WP should take your words to heart.
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
That's like asking why atheists are still uncomfortable with religious faith and spirituality.
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
It's ironic and tragically funny that all the comments in support of this article's premise and of the successes of the current administration are being grayed out.
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
Yeah, yeah. Just venting. The products I work on aren't the most important, but they certainly are quite important and most of the testing infrastructure that has been built thus far has a lot of goofy sh@t in it. I just don't hav
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
Oh boy, I would give your comment an infinite number of up-votes. Yes, testing has reached fetish-like levels. Some of the test code I've encountered recently has been more voluminous, complex and has taken more man hours to develop an
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
Sure they do! I would just refer you to the CATO site to have your pick of thoughtful, well researched articles. Now you run off and have a read and come back with a link if you find a specific article that doesn't meet your specificat
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
I'm also curious why you wouldn't read anything from CATO.
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
Ha, unfortunately I am.
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
I hate yahoo and all these evil companies with their personal data collection fetishes.
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
Antirez, don't worry about it! It's a very effective and accurate phrase that inflames a small minority of overly vocal folks who are irritated that the double standard in left-leaning western media is now becoming better understo
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by jim_bailie 8y ago
I actually agree whole-heartedly with this comment. But I wouldn't have written with such a dismissive tone to a living software god :-) Anyway, Lua was a fine choice!