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3091.
by mst 18y ago
I prefer the "only take carry-on luggage" approach. This does require being able to travel quite light though - most of my trips are 1 week or less at a conference so I only take clothes, laptop and assorted chargers.
3092.
by mst 18y ago
Perl 5 is handled by the perl5-porters mailing list; basically, there's a Pumpking per perl5 major version (currently the active ones are 8, 10, and the 11 branch that will eventually become 12) who has final authority, with a set of commit
3093.
by mst 18y ago
Really? I think you need to look at http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?MooseX::Declare - perl5 the core language is flexible enough that you can extend the language up towards the problem from perl-space pretty well. It's one of the things I
3094.
by mst 18y ago
So mention other sites instead - the BBC iPlayer website, vox.com, etc. Or you just say "two sites in the alexa top 100 that we know about" It's not rocket science.
3095.
by mst 18y ago
Most of irc.perl.org - notably #moose is quite good for discussing meta-model type stuff even if not directly in a perl context. Plus a few bits and pieces on freenode.
3096.
by mst 18y ago
No dividend. Not intended to be sold. The company is held only by the founders so we can control its progress and ensure it becomes the company we envisaged. Our employees believe in that dream. Since there's no monetary value to having equ
3097.
by mst 18y ago
I think what Jon's trying to say is "make sure your publisher doesn't do what Packt appear to have done to the first ever book on the Catalyst framework". Not only did they successfully kill jrock's book but based on his contributions to th
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by mst 18y ago
If he's 22 and is earning slightly -more- than market value ... why is a lack of equity an awful deal? I could have made more per hour delivering pizza than I did in my first technical job as a fresh grad, but it was fun, it paid my rent, I
3099.
by mst 18y ago
When we started http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/ I was working on contract before the company got incorporated, then free for a while, then slightly paid, then my partner came in free for a while, then he got paid. There was paperwork and stuf
3100.
by mst 18y ago
To be honest, the best thing about CPAN isn't any specific module, it's the sheer breadth of them - and the ability to install everything in a uniform way and have it usually work. Plus things like the cpantesters and cpandeps system that m
3101.
by mst 18y ago
It's a -sort of- bug. perl 5.10 actually throws a warning when you trip it, and provides a 'state $x' keyword that provides the same functionality as 'my $x if 0' safely. The basic problem is that the 'my' causes a lexical pad entry to be g
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by mst 18y ago
Bugger. I was aiming for sarcastic hyperbole rather than trolling. Sorry. I'm trying to attack the idea that using lots of small modules is worse than having a few big dependencies - CPAN dependency chains often -look- big because we try to
3103.
by mst 18y ago
They also stole non-trivial chunks of CLOS. The attribute metaprotocol and method modifiers are AFAIK rather more like the equivalents in CLOS or a smalltalk than they are like those in python/ruby, and the roles system is -way- nicer than
3104.
by mst 18y ago
The last time a django core dev looked at DBIx::Class in front of me the response was "shit, we need to steal that". Sadly I didn't get to catch up with them properly at OSCON to find out if they'd manage to steal much of the awesome stuff
3105.
by mst 18y ago
"What's a profoundly useful library in CPAN that isn't easily matched in Python?" Moose. I haven't been so happy programming since I first discovered scheme.
3106.
by mst 18y ago
Fair enough. Rails still looks hopelessly monolithic to a perl dev though - we can't quite see why you'd want to ship a DB library in core when, hey, web apps don't -all- talk to SQL databases. As for the quality of said DB library, well, m
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by mst 18y ago
please don't play the "modern language" game. if we're going to do that, we get to rule out, say, lisp. Which I'd rather write over most "modern" languages any day. And so far as I can tell, you're basically saying "I think the perl standar
3108.
by mst 18y ago
"Someone has never heard of gems:" No. He has. So have I. He's commenting on the reality of a culture dominated by fanboyism and a framework advertised on the basis of being "full stack" which to naive eyes can seem to be "everything you ne
3109.
by mst 18y ago
Once there was an idea in perl-land, that we should take 150 or so different little modules, package them together and make a Big Monolithic Release with Lots Of Stuff in it. They thought they'd call it Perl on Poles. Then we realised that
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by mst 18y ago
We intend it to. Or, given the timescale, run HTTP::Engine, which is an extraction of the Catalyst::Engine system that's designed to be used by any framework - i.e. to become a perl equivalent to WSGI - and which Catalyst is going to port t
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by mst 18y ago
I despise it. It's an effective way to eliminate idiots though, "plz send teh codes" being the canonical example. I find 'plz' and 'thx' and 'tks' and '10x' and so on the most annoying though; how the fuck is it polite if you can't even be
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by mst 18y ago
Play with both. Perl and python are very different languages. They're both good. You might find you're vastly more productive in python. I'm vastly more productive in Perl. (declaration of bias: I'm a Catalyst core team member and would be
3113.
by mst 18y ago
As the author of Catalyst::DispatchType::Chained, thanks! I think most of us in the Cat community consider it a secret weapon - it's not optimised for simple, fast stuff like rails is and it's not optimised for content sites like Django is
3114.
by mst 18y ago
Oh, it's common enough, though it's usually easier to get them with something like 127.4.132.17. Well, or warez.<domain> - there's a long tradition of A-ing that to 127.0.0.1, I use warez.trout.me.uk as a cloak on IRC and there've b
3115.
by mst 19y ago
Well, we ( http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/ ) were founded by me, who plays the "lead hacker" role, and a friend of mine who handles graphic design, marketing, client contact, accounts, contracts etc. Basically he provides the business half of t
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by mst 19y ago
That looks rather cool, actually. And their free acounts are ad-supported. Go sell them your service :D