nchelluri

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1. 31.▲
   by nchelluri 6y ago

   This looks really nice for putting together tests after completing some functionality.
2. 32.▲
   by nchelluri 6y ago

   Yup. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
3. 33.▲
   by nchelluri 6y ago

   I think they already do this, with the delay setting in your profile.
4. 34.▲
   by nchelluri 6y ago

   i was kinda shocked to see all the negativity in this thread. i looked at this post and thought 'beautiful' and kinda mind-blown at the simple elegance of it. ruby is one of those languages that was cutting edge in 1995 and is app
5. 35.▲
   by nchelluri 6y ago

   That couldn't have worked out better, and was a nice thing for you and your wife to have done.
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   Enriching MMDB files with your own data using Go (databases keyed on IP address)(blog.maxmind.com)

   2 points by nchelluri 6y ago|0 comments
7. 37.▲
   by nchelluri 6y ago

   thanks :)
8. 38.▲
   by nchelluri 6y ago

   I have a copy of this book and haven't read it. I keep fearing my background won't be strong enough. I struggle with some high school math (I did get a math degree many years ago but haven't kept up with even basic algebra, a
9. 39.▲
   by nchelluri 6y ago

   Very interesting thought! I think I'll steal it.
10. 40.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    There are a couple of points in there: 1. You can use virtually any language to write clean code Not sure if I agree with this, though it may well be true. I just know there are some things like Brainfuck where it's designed to be impo
11. 41.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    I've been writing (Modern) Perl for about 3.5 years and I disagree that Perl necessarily tends to unreadable code. I really don't think that's true at all. To quote myself from a recent discussion: I think some languages do m
12. 42.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    I think you can learn most/all of Perl 5.32 with http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/ , and it appears this is, initially, going to be 5.32 with some saner defaults. So you could really start no
13. 43.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    > PHP went directly from 5 to 7, and isn’t it time to steal something from that community? :D
14. 44.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    > Are there actually people that are still deploying new things in Perl? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23593835
15. 45.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    > No need of the "if true", it's studied. Terrible. :( > Changing it in entire societies will take time, but there is talk about "growth mindset" vs "fixed mindset". I am glad that things are changin
16. 46.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    > girls are praised for results and boys for effort This is a sad thing, if true. If true, it does sound very changeable. From the article you linked: > bright girls believe that their abilities are innate and unchangeable, while brig
17. 47.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    You're right; it's bad practice. Sometimes I just want to talk tech and it's easier for me to talk about a tangent that I undersand than to stay on-topic when I don't have any knowledge, but that's a bad habit when
18. 48.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    I was following the time honored HN tradition of posting one line about the article and then taking up a tangent. That might be a practice to do away with. But to be literal, I asked because I wanted to talk about it and not just read about
19. 49.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    there are many good reasons for wanting more women developers, IMO. are there any bad reasons for wanting such? this is not a flip comment. if it causes a laugh i dont see a problem with that but it is honestly not intended to denigrate any
20. 50.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    man, that sounds like a trashy thing (for the VC to have done).
21. 51.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    This was an interesting read. I found it well written and kind of sad, if optimistic and hopeful. Personally, I would love to see a lot more female developers. I am betting there is no significant difference in inherent potential talent bet
22. 52.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    I'll shoot you an email, since you've got your email in your profile :)
23. 53.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    I wrote a simple "disaster-ready[1]" site for physical distancing, called the virtual bulletin board system. It is currently in operation in my city but nobody uses it. I tried to get it off the ground but I'm not really sure
24. 54.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    I can't say I agree with the mental model critique for the most part. I think some languages do make it easy to write convoluted code, but through judicious use of coding standards (including a helping of common sense [don't be cl
25. 55.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    Ooh, https://metacpan.org/pod/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.32.0/pod/pe... . Looks nice.
26. 56.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    We use it at my workplace pretty extensively. Where possible, new work is done in Go, and as time and effort permits work is underway to port things to Go, but there is enough legacy stuff in Perl like our (front-end, customer-facing) web a
27. 57.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    That does sound awful. Did they allow a grace period for people to download/migrate their stuff off the platform?
28. 58.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    fwiw, it took me a minute to figure out but I think that the post you're replying to was a joke.
29. 59.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    > If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
30. 60.▲
    by nchelluri 6y ago

    Here's a size comparison with a "hello world" program in my favorite language, Go. nchelluri@grugbarn:~/dev/hello $ cat > hello.go package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Println(&