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by nocman 7y ago
I find this interesting. I've never heard anyone use this word with the meaning that Merriam Webster (and other dictionaries) give as its primary meaning (as in, the one which includes attention to detail). It always means "jus
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by nocman 7y ago
I think it is fair to say that using the term "deadliest" in this context gives almost everyone the impression that this strain of the disease is indeed deadly (that is to say, that a fair number of people die from it). So if ve
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by nocman 7y ago
To me this article feels like someone working really hard to find an objection to something (may or may not be true, but it feels that way to me). The first line of the article's conclusion is "Homoiconicity is a term surrounded b
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by nocman 7y ago
Um, I know lots of 50 year-old (and older) senior developers. I'm not ignoring the fact that ageism is a real thing (it most definitely is), and it is more difficult for many older programmers to "keep up", but that doesn&#
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by nocman 7y ago
Sorry, just getting back to this. Yeah, it has @_, and in the Perl object model, the first entry in the @_ array is a reference to the object, which is almost always called $self. Anyway, what people name the reference doesn't matter.
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by nocman 7y ago
Well, I guess one could make the argument that "<marquee>" isn't as valuable as it used to be. But, of course, you could also make the argument that it has the same low value that it always had. :-D Either way I'
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by nocman 7y ago
Um, perhaps I'm misunderstanding your point, but Perl 5's object model was based on that of Python. And every method of a Perl 5 object receives a $self scalar as its first argument ( see https://perldoc.perl.org&#x2F
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by nocman 7y ago
That's pretty funny, because doing some sort of electronic wizardry with a stove and a cast iron skillet is one of the other things that crossed my mind in that brief moment of confusion. And it is totally something I could see Woz doi
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by nocman 7y ago
"A human with a skillet" -- oh, I'm guessing skillset is what you meant to say. I was feeling old and thinking I was ignorant of some new slang there for a few seconds. :-D
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by nocman 7y ago
That's just until a new logo comes out, like when they go truly minimalistic, something like ... https://pasteboard.co/IiXKmDT.png
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by nocman 7y ago
I don't find them to be vicious -- just honest.
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by nocman 7y ago
I think this is a good example of how bad wording in an opening paragraph can turn readers off. Here's what I took from that paragraph: * destop computer interfaces haven't changed much in 30 years -- that is bad * people use sma
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by nocman 7y ago
"It would require you to be a competent programmer though." is not blunt criticism. It is simply unkind and unnecessary. You can be blunt without being nasty. While I do sometimes think reactions on HN could use a little "l
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by nocman 7y ago
I think you are selling yourself short. I personally know people who have gotten married for the first time after 40 (and are now in their 60's) -- and are very happy. It's not too late, and most people will spend most of their a
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by nocman 7y ago
I do think it would be a good idea for the libressl.org site to put a link on the left "sidebar" with the text "Documentation" (which shows a page of links at minimum), just to make it obvious where to find it. That was
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by nocman 7y ago
Unless you run an unbranded builds ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded... ), or the Developer Edition ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ ), whe
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by nocman 7y ago
I believe I understand what the author of this post is trying to accomplish, but for virtually every "client" I have ever worked for, their eyes would have glazed over by the time they'd read 25% of this response (if they cou
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by nocman 7y ago
> Big cloud providers or some big VC backed companies have the resource to figure out the issues by wrestling with the gigantic and unyielding vendors, or by working around it with their engineering resource. This is all operating on the
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by nocman 7y ago
I wasn't suggesting that any scrutinizing of the code for clear intent should be considered a "pet peeve". I was saying I see both sides in this particular case, and that in my opinion devlopers (myself included) often make
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by nocman 7y ago
No, you are not the only one. The author of that code is trying to make it explicit -- "yes, I want to allow reuse of local addressses". Some will prefer this, some won't. I personally like the use of the variable, though I
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by nocman 8y ago
Not the parent, but I am from the US. I don't know anyone who uses i{whatever} as a generic term. When they say iPhone, they mean a smartphone manufactured by Apple. When they say iPad, they mean a tablet computer manufactured by
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by nocman 8y ago
I guess that depends on who is doing the spelling. Seems to me that the 80's spelling of it was "sike". This website seems to agree: http://www.inthe80s.com/glossary.shtml
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by nocman 8y ago
I think it is possible that you are "hearing" a condescending tone where none is intended. I don't know the author, and they would be the best to address it (and I haven't finished the article yet), but here are my thou
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by nocman 8y ago
It is still a separate project. Mozilla is just collecting donations for them: "While Thunderbird is now an independent project separate from Mozilla, Mozilla has agreed to collect donations on our behalf" ( quote above is from
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by nocman 8y ago
Except it isn't new information to a lot of people. I heard about the "why" for this years ago (of course, the article is from 2012). Pretty sure I'd heard the reason considerably earlier that.
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by nocman 8y ago
I believe they mean "limited in a good way", as in it doesn't have a bunch of unnecessary syntax that increases the number of characters entered, but does not add value to the language. No pun intended, by "value" I
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by nocman 8y ago
Um, destructuring is a very old concept in Lisp circles. http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Body/m_dest... Don't know if Rich first got the idea from Lisp or not, but it seems likely s
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by nocman 8y ago
It ain't what it used to be! :-D
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by nocman 8y ago
1) "a lot of the concepts Rails supports are antiquated" ... 2) "Rails hasn't shown to be that adaptable to more modern front end trends" Would you mind elaborating? What Rails concepts are "antiquated",
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by nocman 8y ago
Actually it is not limited to our profession. I have relatives in completely different (non-tech) jobs that would say of working a job just to pay the bills "what kind of way is that to live?". In fact they have said that of oth

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