walrusty

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   by walrusty 15y ago

   I don't use perlbrew. Haven't tried it, since installing your own Perl by-hand is easy enough.
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   by walrusty 15y ago

   > Google Code's UI needs a lot of work. I disagree. I think it's a nice, simple, tidy interface in contrast to github's flashy one.
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   by walrusty 15y ago

   Regarding how "the right thing" stacks up to the worse-is-better solution, the author writes: > How does the right thing stack up? There are two basic scenarios: the ``big complex system scenario'' and the ``diamond-like jewel'' scenari
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   by walrusty 15y ago

   > My advice to young people is to pursue your interest in CS, but major in something else. This sounds like a big mistake. I did not major in CS but instead later learned on my own and found that there's a shit-ton of holes in my CS-kno
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   by walrusty 15y ago

   I've avoided dealing with hardware issues by buying hardware from [Los Alamos Computers][1], and avoided most sysadmin issues by using Ubuntu (an LTS release). [1]: http://laclinux.com/gnu/Start As for desktop environments (Gnome, KDE), I