rjbond3rd

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by rjbond3rd 13y ago
> P.S. Removing news.ycombinator.com cookies didn't help. Same here. FF 20 on Linux.
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by rjbond3rd 13y ago
Very cool! Build vs. buy, you're building, everyone wins (plus you're a great employer for training your devs). What's your product or service? Now Perl programmers are now seeking -you- out :) And I'm sure you already know about the YAPC
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by rjbond3rd 13y ago
I disagree. First, it's hard to find good developers, period. S econd, in general, good developers are hard to find by design (e.g., to avoid recruiters, but also because they are most tof the time already doing interesting work). Lastly,
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by rjbond3rd 13y ago
From the article: "A pure meritocracy, we'd discovered, can only promote; it can't legitimize." He was an outsider who became an insider, only to discover there was another elite (social, economic, political) level that he feared he'd never
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
You may be happy to know that Optimus video is supported on Linux by Bumblebee, http://bumblebee-project.org/
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Hi doktrin, Regarding -new- Perl projects, take a peek at the Mojolicious web framework [0] (because nearly everything using it is a new Perl project). It's the most fun I've had in years. If nothing else, the Mojocasts [1] will probably b
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
But even Perl's barebones (non-Moose) OO has inheritance. Once you add in Moose, you now have an API to your OO which is unusual. Personally, I think Lua is amazing. Rolling your own OO system in the language itself is pretty awesome, if y
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Recruiters are often looking for, e.g., 10 years of experience in a technology which didn't exist 10 years ago.
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
I appreciate that you write really well, but I think your argument boils down to "there's safety in numbers." And that is a totally valid strategy for IT careers, but I would quit programming if I had to follow that advice. It feels too muc
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
> ...we would consider them mostly irrelevant languages. And apparently "we" are using "irrelevant" to mean not fashionable. Or does it mean, "Do not use for new IT projects" or something? What does it matter what other people do, esp
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
DIY is a great lifestyle. And it comes with many positive benefits, not least of which affect mood and outlook. I'm typing this on a 7-year-old Thinkpad X60s, and with the right Firefox add-ons, surfing feels more responsive than on my (un
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
OP is also wrong about Flashblock on Firefox.
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
> So what is the purpose of replacing a common format with one that wastes space repeating labels? Some time ago, we had to migrate dozens of HTML forms from legacy servers. We ended up implementing a generic forms handler to process a
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Not proof, I guess, but possible countermeasures: * run the OS from (known good) media mounted read-only (in the olden days, some websites ran off Knoppix CD's and rebooted often :) * (Red Hat): rpm -Va to verify the package database, binar
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
And yet, it pains me to say (ouch!), mindshare is a function of version number. User confusion? It's already out there, in the form of misinformation.
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Recently, I watched someone code in Mojolicious (a remarkable Perl framework). It was simple, brilliant, elegant and yet felt incredibly lightweight as well - lots of wow-factor. But sad to say, most will never see such beautiful things, m
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Hmm, why not, after you've made a compelling case?
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Whoa, could you elaborate? I'm sure people would love to hear more context for totally rewriting (not second-guessing, just intensely curious).
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Plus, who wants to go to a job where they think you're somebody else? Being who you really are is the ultimate perk.
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Don't put anything false or ambiguous on your resume. It's a disservice to yourself. I hate to phrase it this way, but your integrity is your brand. Being able to accomplish things is so rare -- if you have that ability, the simple truth
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Very cool. So did your app somehow manage to do video capture on the client hardware, or did you access something equivalent to a webcam?
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
The bootloader loads the kernel + a tiny, temporary initial (init) filesystem in RAM (e.g. ramdisk -> rd), where the kernel can load other modules to load the real filesystem (otherwise it would need support for many filesystems compile
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
I do (perversely) use Fedora to see where RHEL is going longer-term, and 18 has been really rough for me so far. Not impossible, just demoralizing. Is the installer buggy, or just un-usably confusing? It's both. Sometimes the "submit" ty
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Don't overthink it. Scratch your own itch and create something. Since you have some perl background, create a useful utility and get it up on github. Do it again tomorrow, and keep going. No utility is too small. You want to get into the
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Changes the filesystem root to be inside a certain folder.
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
You're making it sound like no big deal. Maybe by that time, the damage was done. Anyway, the real issue is the Orwellian pressure tactics used by the state to destroy a relatively powerless individual.
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
From the article: > Though, the primary benefit of being able to take money isn’t really about being able to take money. > It’s about seeing your product through your potential customers’ eyes. Who they are? Which aspects of what yo
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Okay, but you're addressing only the ideal scenario of beneficially matching buyer and seller, where the product user is buffered by (honest broker) Google and thus not yet revealed to the advertiser. But once you cross over (via clicking),
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
What do you mean by legitimate? I think you're just frustrated that thoughtful moderation is labor-intensive, and civility doesn't scale too well. But at any rate, haven't you undermined your own argument? You've found the community of HN
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by rjbond3rd 14y ago
Interesting. In the local hackerspace, for several years, I watched many students struggle with a (very fine) graphical drag-n-drop programming tool known as StarLogo TNG[0] (and Logo variants). In the end, it seemed the brighter students

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