phaylon

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by phaylon 14y ago
I guess it just depends on the target. For starting out serious development I'd certainly agree with all you say, although I personally prefer the local development and tests on staging method, since it means I know it runs on at least two
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by phaylon 14y ago
What if you'd like to develop a gem not for any specific platform? What if you want to develop desktop apps, or make CLI apps to automate little things on your usual platform?
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by phaylon 14y ago
I actually switched from Thunderbird to Evolution because the former couldn't handle some of my larger IMAP mailboxes. It also makes me happy because Calendar works nicely (in my case at least) with Google Calendars.
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by phaylon 14y ago
Personally, I think Moose' value to the community is much larger than that it just provides good OO. It pushed a much more declarative approach than usual, that swaps over to other projects (Moo, Mo, even Class::Accessor supports has declar
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by phaylon 14y ago
The title is also in the URI that was posted.
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by phaylon 14y ago
I know, which is why FF is my main browser. I'm just arguing the importance of the option for my personal usage patterns.
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by phaylon 14y ago
That wouldn't hurt me :) I could even imagine it being useful to be able to automatically load the surrounding context (say N pages left and right). Or load all adjacent pages on the same domain as the active tab, which would be quite usefu
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by phaylon 14y ago
I agree. That's why I said I just want to have the option, but I don't care about its initial state :) I wouldn't even care if it were only available in about:config. I just wanted to mention my viewpoint (started writing it before I saw th
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by phaylon 14y ago
I fully agree, I currently have 174 tabs open, and that's actually a low number for me (I closed a couple hundred down on the weekend). Having all of them reload when I restart my browser was a nightmare before this feature. Everytime I'd h
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by phaylon 15y ago
GitHub already parses README files of various formats. I wonder how hard it would be to just parse a LICENSE/COPYRIGHT file if it's available. This would make sure the licenses are distributed with the code. If the license file couldn't be
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by phaylon 15y ago
I'm probably out of my territory (I don't have a phone right now[1]), but my first UI instinct would be to allow address book entries to be grouped (or tagged or labelled, the actual mechanism is secondary), and on first request from the ap
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by phaylon 15y ago
In my mind there's a huge difference between spelling _mistakes_, and _purposefully_ setting up a negative and insulting tone. There's no need to ignore the rest of the comment, when you think the overall language will do more harm than goo
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by phaylon 15y ago
It might also be that "in an ideal world nobody would be stupid enough," "an enormously stupid idea" and "most ridiculous bullshit in human history" aren't really arguments, and thus not really further the conversation.
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by phaylon 15y ago
The new developments in Perl syntax mostly solve this by having an explicit separator for invocant specification: method foo ($bar, $baz) { ... } has $self, $bar and $baz, while method foo ($class: $bar, $baz) { ... } has
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by phaylon 15y ago
There's also a CPAN DIstribution for that: https://metacpan.org/release/TMDB
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by phaylon 15y ago
I just want to note that I would answer, if the question would seem in any way sincere. But I don't think I could say anything that would bring you to consider that other people might have other opinions, and that they're not simply invalid
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by phaylon 15y ago
> You don't need hard quantitative data If you make an absolute, quantitative statement, you kinda do. If you read what I said below, it's perfectly fine to feel that in your environment there is a shift happening, and I can't judge tha
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by phaylon 15y ago
If you want to experience a modern Perl, you can use perlbrew[1] to install it for your user only (e.g. you won't need to muck with the system's Perl), cpanm[2] is a modern and easy (and zero-configuration) tool for install modules from CPA
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by phaylon 15y ago
If that's your opinion then I hope you're happy with it. I can only tell you that I, my colleagues and many others find great use in Perl, find that it is also very powerful, and continue to further the community, the ecosystem and the core
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by phaylon 15y ago
Yes. I don't follow COBOL and can't judge it. If there is a modern COBOL, I certainly won't judge it by the COBOL that existed in the 90s. To throw the question back: Do you think Lisp is useless because it's old, or do you think the Lisp o
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by phaylon 15y ago
I hope somewhere in the future there will be a point where we can have discussions about things like this without having some people think they can just state "Perl is dead," "Python is the new Perl" or "Ruby is just better." It's fine if t
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by phaylon 15y ago
I'm not sure hygienic macros are gonna be that much of a top-seller in user code, I agree. But there are situations where it would be very handy, especially as library developer. Macros would for example make optimized code generation a lot
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by phaylon 15y ago
Exactly, it's a trade-off. Making the other side of the fence not impossible to reach, you just have to hop a little. Perl can easily be made nicer and Python can surely with ease be made more flexible.
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by phaylon 15y ago
Have you tried Imager[1]? It's what I'd recommend these days, but I don't have experience with image manipulation in any other language so I can't compare. I agree that there need to be better ways to find modules. I have high hopes for Met
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by phaylon 15y ago
What helped me most was american/english media, and mostly movies. It gave me a better feel for the language than just reading something, and gives more context for association regarding unknown words and phrases.
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by phaylon 15y ago
You could try `time psql < alter-statement.sql`. I know, it'd not really be useful as it measures lots of overhead. But if it's fast on that, it's fast during an active session.
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by phaylon 15y ago
That's brilliant, thank you.
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by phaylon 15y ago
It's a 2GHz Core Duo laptop, 2GB memory. Currently running Ubuntu 11.10. I just restarted yesterday and am already back at 45 tabs. The only thing that can bring it down is the Twitter UI, but that doesn't seem to need many tabs to get ther
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by phaylon 15y ago
You know, I wish I could see that. But I can use Firefox regularly with 80+ tabs without any hitch. Chromium starts getting unresponsive somewhere between 10 and 30 depending on the content.
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by phaylon 15y ago
I usually just click the grey icon to the right, which opens the link the item points to. The expanded view is still useful though, since for example HN points to the posted link and not the comments page.

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