Ovid

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by Ovid 1mo ago
Side note: I'm quitting Reddit. I need to come back here. This is why: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vj72hj/how_to_wr...
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How to write production-quality code with AI(curtispoe.org)
7 points by Ovid 1mo ago|2 comments
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by Ovid 1mo ago
Many people trying to develop software treat AI as magic pixie dust they can sprinkle on a problem to make it go away. For coding, this as "AI-led engineering." The literature is rife with the failures of this. Instead, I argue th
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by Ovid 3y ago
I've tried to push entity-component-systems (ECS) for non-game applications. A financial company in London took that advice to manage the complexity of their system since it was such a good fit. For those who are curious, here's a
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by Ovid 3y ago
This was brought up a few times. There were several issues with that approach. * `bless` and `class` aren't topologically equivalent: you can't twist and warp one into the other * We've seen small, incremental steps get beate
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by Ovid 3y ago
And in the new class syntax, when it's done, that's (roughly): class Point { field $x :param :reader; field $y :param :reader; method as_string() { return "($x,$y)"; }
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by Ovid 5y ago
> A senior member of Ethiopia's media accused Facebook of “just standing by and watching this country fall apart”. Why the hell does one company get hold so much power in the world? More to the point, why does Mark Zuckerberg, an ap
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by Ovid 5y ago
Oh, that is a long and complicated story. Perl 6 was announced a long time ago, but it took many years of development and planning and I (like others) used to joke that Duke Nukem Forever was going to be written in Perl 6. And then we got e
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by Ovid 5y ago
Yes, late December, 1987, after the events I describe. It was released on Usenet, as I recall. I didn't even know what Usenet was back then. For me, it was pretty exciting to dial up a BBS, crash their software, and read through the co
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by Ovid 5y ago
Well, duh :) Perl's still more popular than people think. I saw on the Board of Directors for the Perl foundation for years, regularly speak at conferences for it, have released tons of open-source software for it, and currently am wor
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by Ovid 6y ago
As a short summary about Perl 7: If your Perl is old-school, that's OK. Use Perl 5 and we'll keeping supporting you. If you your Perl isn't old-school, use Perl 7 and get new features. If you're not sure, ask us and we
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by Ovid 6y ago
Just to be clear to everyone: this doesn't break anything. If you continue to use Perl version 5, you're fine. If you want to upgrade your major version of Perl, then of course you need to know what that means.
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by Ovid 7y ago
I've known Jeff for many years, both as a friend, an employee, and a fellow presenter at conferences. I've hung out with him drinking beer in numerous countries around the world. If there is one thing that I think sums up Jeff it&
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Sequel–A Structured English Query Language (1974 Introductory Paper, Pdf)(researcher.watson.ibm.com)
2 points by Ovid 7y ago|0 comments
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by Ovid 7y ago
I'm also curious about the "no single-purpose accounts" guideline because I can't find that in the guidelines you have linked to. Have I overlooked something? I sounds like you might be referring to this: > Don&#x27
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by Ovid 7y ago
Red looks interesting. Though I don't like the mapping of tables to "model". In general, I find that a model should be a consumer of an ORM, not the ORM itself. Otherwise, you expose to much to the business layer and it'
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by Ovid 7y ago
I get hired all the time to fix legacy systems in Perl or to build new systems in Perl. We're still out there, but it's not "cool" to talk about.
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by Ovid 7y ago
The https://taustation.space/ game runs great on Perl 5, but yes, with a robust Perl 6, many things would have been easier to implement. But by "robust" I don't mean just the language—I also mean the ecosyste
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by Ovid 7y ago
This has been a huge deal for the Perl community. First, it was thought that Perl 6 would be the replacement for Perl 5. But it was long ago recognized that there was no clear upgrade path from Perl 5 to Perl 6, so it was agreed that Perl 6
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Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku(github.com)
619 points by Ovid 7y ago|439 comments
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by Ovid 7y ago
"author of the post in question" God, what a horrible typo :)
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by Ovid 7y ago
> Perl6 has been under development for over a decade at this point, and this equivocating statement is the best that can be said about performance? If the "work is clear, the goals are straightforward" and Perl 6 should easily
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A different approach to beating Facebook(ovid.github.io)
3 points by Ovid 7y ago|0 comments
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by Ovid 7y ago
You're not missing the point. I apparently didn't do a good job of making it clear. I'm primarily talking about external data/services. Anything which you would ordinarily consider "suspect", such as "re
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by Ovid 7y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. It wasn't quite like that. It was to help the pharmaceuticals work together to "pool" talented researchers who had the required training to proceed in the clinical trials. If a bunch of companies d
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by Ovid 7y ago
This is the original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19968496
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Alan Kay and Missing Messages(ovid.github.io)
115 points by Ovid 7y ago|59 comments
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by Ovid 7y ago
Alan Kay says he did. "I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea." Source: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail
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by Ovid 7y ago
As a huge fan of Perl and very comfortable writing POD, I despise POD. I would much prefer Markdown for documentation. It's easier to write and easier to read. Just try creating lists in each.
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by Ovid 8y ago
Did you catch the part about duplicate/misspelled addresses? The design wasn't even fit for the original use case.

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