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by pyre 10y ago
I'm not disagreeing that there should be a "Perl6 from scratch" type tutorial instead of "Hey, programmer coming from X language"-type tutorial.
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by pyre 10y ago
There is no downvote button for stories, and the bar is fairly low for the downvote button on user comments, IIRC.
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by pyre 10y ago
Well, there is this: https://docs.perl6.org/language/rb-nutshell An overview of the differences between Ruby and Perl6, which doesn't seem to assume Perl5 knowledge, but beyond that the docs are a bit lacking on t
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by pyre 10y ago
You read this part: > turned it into a beautiful, easy-to-read language. and got annoyed (presumably?) that Python wasn't mentioned, but you completely ignored: > it took a lot of the underlying philosophies from Perl Ruby is a
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by pyre 10y ago
> go figure I get downvoted for pointing it out. I really hate this "I'm only stating the truth that people don't want to see! Wake up sheeple!" attitude that some people seem to cop.
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by pyre 10y ago
Depending on how the company crashes and burns, couldn't that be prevented from getting enacted? For example, I can't imagine that investors would be too happy that the company's "biggest" asset would be given awa
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by pyre 10y ago
The fact that you're talking about $650k - $700k being in your price range means that you're doing better than a lot of people.
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by pyre 10y ago
This entire thread makes me think of that Silicon Valley scene[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5jF5jtMM_4
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by pyre 10y ago
To be fair, with stuff like this: > It's awesome if you have and want to spend the time compiling your kernel - I did that and I'm glad I did years ago. you're being just as bad as his asinine assertion that Windows'
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by pyre 10y ago
For a while it had a lot of features that Terminal.app was missing. Terminal.app has fixed a bunch of these things, but iTerm is still my preferred terminal app on macOS. iTerm has overflowing with features (though that doesn't necessa
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by pyre 10y ago
> Yeah sure, if you install some tooling it then becomes fine, but you need to install that. You could say that of any tooling. Linux doesn't come installed with Grunt, or Gulp or <insert build tool here> by default. It does
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by pyre 10y ago
> Terminal.app which is borderline unusable (almost as bad as cmd.exe) This is the point that I stopped reading. Terminal.app on OSX 10.1 was better than cmd.exe... and Terminal.app was a fucking pain in those days. But you know what?
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by pyre 10y ago
> If you have an offline wallet that has always been offline it is very, very, very easy to get away with criminal activity and take Bitcoin. Taking Bitcoin isn't the part that gets you caught, it's the spending it somewhere
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by pyre 10y ago
> Cliff Stoll There's a word for incidences where you hear something once, and then see it everywhere. I just looked him up[1] the other day because someone linked to this article[2] elsewhere, and I happened to decide to look up
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by pyre 10y ago
When you get bereavement leave, do you claim that the company is "subsidizing" someone's loss and that you need to get an equal amount of leave to offset that? What if someone has a rash of deaths in their life? Should the co
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by pyre 10y ago
Your dismissive attitude discounts: 1. People lie. 2. People believe things to be true that are not, in fact, true.
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by pyre 10y ago
Well, on the other hand this sort of software change really needs decent software support and I'm not sure that Lenovo can be held up as a good example of software dev / UX excellence. However this works out for Apple, their softw
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by pyre 10y ago
When you have a "Free vs. Pro" model, you usually structure it so that the Free version is subsidized by the money from the Pro version. So I don't think it's outrageous to be confused by someone having such a model, and
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by pyre 10y ago
I think the point was that they are asking for $$$ by having a "Free vs. Pro" business model (i.e. people pay $$$ for Pro), so where does the need for a Kickstarter campaign come from?
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by pyre 10y ago
> but I think my parents' encouraging my nerdiness, buying me a graphing calculator in high school and surrounding me with computers my whole life had something to do with how I got interested in computers and subsequently developed
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by pyre 10y ago
Time Warner Cable [1] used to be a part of Time Warner Inc., but: > In the past, other major divisions of Time Warner included Time Inc., AOL, Time Warner Cable, Warner Books, and Warner Music Group. All of these operations were either
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by pyre 10y ago
Looks like that author has continued down the path of that line of though though, if you look at the books listed on his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll#Books
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by pyre 10y ago
Well, it obviously happens when the resolver is down, but that's the situation that this logic is being proposed to smooth over. The normal day-to-day does not see a high percentage of resolvers failing to respond, or else people wou
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by pyre 10y ago
> Instead, I expect that your resolver will see a failure to respond from a resolver a high percentage of the time, leading to frequent serving of stale data. If this were true, the current failure mode would have end users receiving NX
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by pyre 10y ago
It doesn't even have to be malicious. The US could offer him a plea deal for information that they think that he has, and he just tells them what they want to hear. It's entirely possible that the US authorities are so convinced t
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by pyre 10y ago
Why would it be mad? Because Hitler singled out an ethnic group for extermination in addition to political opponents rather than just killing off political opponents? They both racked up a comparable body-counts of their own people as ruler
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by pyre 10y ago
> If the only restriction is on the title 'journalist', what stops people from calling themselves a blogger while doing exactly the same things that a journalist does? I don't think that anyone would be proposing restricti
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by pyre 10y ago
But legally they are claiming full power over everything, and just not exercising that power in practice.
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by pyre 10y ago
You've got me sucked in now. So let's assume that I work for Gitlab, and I host all of my side-work / personal projects on Gitlab. Do that mean that those projects are effectively using "company facilities or assets?&q
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by pyre 10y ago
I'm no Hillary fan, but that's hardly "silencing the Press." If so then, any celebrity attempting to close their blinds so that the paparazzi can't see into their house is "silencing the Press." She's

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