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by nocman 2y ago
Perl's reputation for this is entirely unfair, in my opinion. I just opened up a random reasonably-large Perl program that I last touched over three years ago, browsed through the source, and I have absolutely no trouble telling what i
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by nocman 2y ago
JetBrains makes their survey data available here ( https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/ ): Based on my calculations from that data (extracting only the US responses, based on their entries for 'os_
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by nocman 2y ago
fair point, however I suspect that if you narrow the scope of the data to the US (even the data from those surveys) it will not change the results much. Out of curiosity, I'm looking for data that is limited to the US, and will respond
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by nocman 2y ago
> At least here in the US, the majority of developers daily drive macs on their desktop. Not according to statista.com (I am not a registered user, but it looks like you could register for no cost, in order to check the source): https:&
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by nocman 2y ago
> It’s a title, nothing more. It means nothing, because there is no legal certification process for any of this. I believe I understand where you are coming from. However, that's not entirely fair. Most jobs have "no legal c
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by nocman 2y ago
not the parent, but 'everything' is a mostly unhelpful answer. A few important concrete examples would be much more interesting. In fairness, you did somewhat, but I would be interested in some more details.
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by nocman 2y ago
What do you mean "remember"? It still makes using the command line in Windows tolerable. And yes, I am familiar with PowerShell, and NO I'm not interested in using it.
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by nocman 2y ago
I keep clicking on these 'MTA' articles expecting them to be about a "message transfer agent". Then I think, oh, right, wrong MTA. Guess I've spent too much time dealing with email servers.
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by nocman 2y ago
I heartily disagree. The differences are almost entirely non-cosmetic, IMHO. I am fine with the "holy war" talk as long as it is just good-natured tongue-in-cheek fun (which it often is, in my experience). Often the stupidity of
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by nocman 2y ago
Oh, I thought it stood for: "Suffering A Massive Lot" - jk Let's just say my interaction with managing websites that used SAML was less than pleasant.
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by nocman 2y ago
Yeah, well, we all use things that we wish we didn't have to use.
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by nocman 2y ago
Well, I wasn't arguing that the language is actually named ADA. I was just saying it seems like a common mistake. Plus for some reason (not sure why, exactly), ADA looks more likely to me to be an acronym than JAVA does. Also, way
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by nocman 2y ago
> The holy war between vim and emacs is like a bunch of machinists arguing over whether they prefer a lathe, or an entire machine shop that also includes a lathe if you want it. IMHO not really a fair comparison. There are signifcant di
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by nocman 2y ago
Well, in fairness to them, one of the two books in the list spells it all caps right there on the cover.
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by nocman 2y ago
The accounting people I know all hate Quickbooks (with an extra portion of hate for the online version).
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by nocman 2y ago
"For you turquoise is blue" - no, for me turquoise is turquoise, but you did give me that as an option. Multiple times I thought to myself "I would not call this color blue or green, it is some variety of blue-green".
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by nocman 2y ago
It depends totally on how you read it. In this case, my first thought after reading that was "play stupid games, win stupid prizes". There are plenty of people (especially on the internet) who actually do think that way -- by
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by nocman 2y ago
Do you genuinely think the GP needs you to point that out to them? I can't think of a single person I know that uses a text-only email client (and yes, I know more than one of them) who isn't what you'd call a "power use
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by nocman 2y ago
Which has nothing to do with BNSF :-D
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by nocman 2y ago
I'm not saying it is for everyone, or for every project. My point was that "Literate programming only works for small scripts and narrative documentation" is far too wide-sweeping of a statement. There are plenty of non-tri
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by nocman 2y ago
not true: "This book describes pbrt, a physically based rendering system based on the ray-tracing algorithm." ( https://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/Introduction ) and: "This book (including the chapter y
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by nocman 2y ago
Generally I hear that in reference to chromatic's book / blog posts: http://modernperlbooks.com/
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by nocman 2y ago
No, you are not alone. Over 25 years of Perl experience. Still writing new stuff daily, both for work and personal use.
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by nocman 2y ago
>The Linux kernel doesn't matter. While I agree on the importance of "the history, philosophy, and purpose of the unix environment", saying that the Linux kernel doesn't matter seems a bit harsh at best. It seems to
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by nocman 2y ago
Thanks to reader mode I can read this article. When I opened the link the first time I just closed it immediately. I know they were trying to be "cool", but that was just horrible .
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by nocman 2y ago
> I haven't been using it as my daily driver for almost 10 years now. Is there some humor I'm missing there, or is that just a typo (and you meant to say "I have" )?
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by nocman 2y ago
Out of curiosity, why bother to unmap the cursor keys? I don't ever use them in vim either, but is there something that is prevented from working with having them mapped in vim?
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by nocman 2y ago
> No point looking at old crusty codebases written in C. I understand why someone might not want to start there, but I think that could be a bit short-sighted. I think people are far too quick to dismiss code that's old. Yeah, it
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by nocman 2y ago
I disagree. I use Linux (including Ubuntu), Windows and Android apps regularly, on fairly decent hardware. Most apps I would describe as having "OK" to "tolerable" performance. Some I would call "draggy", an
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by nocman 2y ago
> and now things are back to mostly snappy. This is the inverse of my experience. There are few applications that have a UI that I would refer to as 'snappy'. In fact, I am trying to come up with a single example, and atm I

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