swansw

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   by swansw 13y ago

   Sorry to break it to you but that's simply not going to happen (at least anytime soon). Why not direct your effort at improving the language instead? Edit: I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you but I just want to know what your
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   by swansw 13y ago

   For those wondering about startups using Perl for a large part of their codebase, DuckDuckGo is certainly one. There maybe others too but mostly it's for server side scripting.
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   Ask HN: What is your download speed?

   7 points by swansw 13y ago|22 comments
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   by swansw 13y ago

   Aw come on - but you're really missing out.
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   by swansw 13y ago

   I don't think the APIs are down. http://fixyt.com (submitted to HN 3 days ago) is working for me.
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   by swansw 13y ago

   Which part made you uncomfortable? The fact that his wife was cooking for their family or that he had eight kids?
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   by swansw 13y ago

   At this point I don't even know what will convince me that stuff like this that Google releases isn't yet another dead-in-a-year product. We've seen a number of great service being killed just in the past few months alone. Wh
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   by swansw 13y ago

   You can think of loads of reasons, but you haven't given any. Being assassinated young is probably the only thing most people know about JFK. It isn't rocket science to figure out that most people would see him as a sort of martyr
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   Why the NSA's defense of mass data collection makes no sense(theatlantic.com)

   2 points by swansw 13y ago|0 comments