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by ryl00 7y ago
Probably better to just completely disable most functionality when the car is in motion; that's what my non-touchscreen UI does in my car.
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by ryl00 7y ago
> When Python's standard library was first being written, there were no easy package managers for any language Wasn't perl's CPAN developed around that time period (mid '90s) ?
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by ryl00 7y ago
Is that really PHP's, though? It's been in shell scripts and perl for quite a while...
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by ryl00 7y ago
For perl, a lot of my searches end up at perlmonks. A lot of great answers for more arcane :) perl.
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by ryl00 7y ago
> Python mostly scratches that itch for me, but even there it has multiple methods to do the same stuff within the standard library, like list.sort() and sorted(list) There's also the list vs tuple thing. I can understand it from an
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by ryl00 8y ago
Learning perl first stunted my bash knowledge; I'm very, very quick to bail into perl at the first sign of difficulty. :)
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by ryl00 8y ago
Flat/Metro UI, live tiles, jump lists, dark mode. (I'm still using mine as a daily driver)
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by ryl00 8y ago
Some of us still are. And not just because of memory. :)
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by ryl00 8y ago
But doesn't the whitespace issue gimp Python's lambda syntax? AFAIK you're limited to one expression or function call, to get around the fact that you can't just inline a completely new function (with its associated cont
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by ryl00 8y ago
This is exactly where perl (namely, perl -ne) is so very, very useful.
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by ryl00 8y ago
"Not uncommon" is an understatement. In some workplaces, Simulink is as pervasive and core to engineering as Excel is to the business world in general.
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by ryl00 8y ago
Are you me? :) With my Windows Phone I am immune from websites continually trying to push me to use their app ( take that, reddit! ;) ). And it makes a great smartphone for my son... just enough capability to stay connected, but a lot of di
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by ryl00 8y ago
An IT department that controls compiler upgrades, in my case :/. We're still stuck on not-quite-C++11 because we're still stuck on g++-4.3
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by ryl00 8y ago
Ada?
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by ryl00 8y ago
Driving across the Pacific anytime soon? :)
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by ryl00 8y ago
reddit?
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by ryl00 8y ago
> This stuff is almost 100 years old. It was written for a society very different from our own. Different, yet still the same in many important ways. If this means great things like Harold Lloyd's seminal comedy Safety Last! will no
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by ryl00 8y ago
> Today, Chrome isn't the best and doesn't come bundled with devices, I think you're forgetting the largest smartphone OS on the planet there. :)
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by ryl00 8y ago
Roblox seems to have a pretty good Lua mod ecosystem.
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by ryl00 8y ago
> I want it all, I want to have my cake and eat it too. Conceptually this should be possible with some preprocessor/header tinkering; something like: private.h: struct Bar { double x; double y; }; #define BAR_DEFINED
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by ryl00 8y ago
I ditched Android 2+ years ago for... Windows Mobile. :) While I did so for purely financial reasons (Microsoft was in the process of bailing out, so was putting their stock on fire sale and I couldn't resist, ecosystem disadvantages n
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by ryl00 8y ago
I'm not surprised, given the power of the CLI and the composibility of tools like grep, awk, sed, find, etc. IDEs are great, but sometimes what you need to do just isn't already defined in a GUI checkbox or menu item...
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by ryl00 8y ago
I'd imagine having to maintain last-access time on files can be constraining for filesystem performance.
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by ryl00 8y ago
Reports of perl's death are greatly exaggerated.
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by ryl00 8y ago
> Mentally switching into "perl" mode to work on these projects requires tons more effort then switching between our other Bash/PHP/Puppet/Python That's surprising to me. Bash, PHP and perl seem to be closer
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by ryl00 8y ago
I blame my rudimentary knowledge of sh on perl... As soon as the going gets tough when I'm writing sh, I immediately bail into perl. :)
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by ryl00 8y ago
I think it depends. We recently had an issue with our fifteen-year-old Kenmore dryer not heating anymore. A little scouting around showed new dryers around the $500 mark, so I decided to do a little more research into diagnosing what might
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by ryl00 8y ago
> Sort of what people used to use Perl for. Used to? People still do this (I should know; I'm one of them).
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by ryl00 8y ago
Perl is still my goto language for scripts. It all depends on what you're used to.
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by ryl00 8y ago
I work with a lot of numerical code. Fortran's not going away any time soon.

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