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by creer 9mo ago
And for very small amounts too (compared to the whole mess). Fantastic return (on that little bit, out of the whole mess). Same for medical research.
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by creer 9mo ago
In particular, investors often like to see the contrast of infrastructure development (investing in future GDP), as opposed to paying day to day operating costs, retirements, interest on debt (never mind larger debt as far as the eye can se
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by creer 9mo ago
Sure, if you have too much business that you can't be bothered to check these other leads. Same for browser incompatibility: you end up with a form which demands no blocking of anything, many specific js capabilities, MSIE only (I kid
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by creer 9mo ago
They ARE suggesting such things (including forms of "not looking") even for deadly ones. In these cases, it is couched in terms of what follow-up is "deemed necessary" (see later) depending on stage classification of tha
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by creer 9mo ago
Perhaps BOTH the "money-grubbing hospital admin" and the "very well-respected and honor-bound doctor" are wrong for not involving their patients in these decision? And their insurance for that matter. Recently my US-syst
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by creer 9mo ago
One-liners is one of the ways you can use perl. You can also use it as the embedded language in some larger project. As perl CGI. As mod_perl. etc. There is no "cultural pressure" to use any of these. You can choose to mess around
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by creer 9mo ago
You indeed ran into toxic environments. I don't feel that the common, new perl programmer intake path was anything like that. Not what I ever ran into. Support in forums and such was needlessly short in using RTFM as an answer. People
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by creer 9mo ago
I wouldn't call it hermetic in that the many forms of documentation are insanely thorough and accessible - if not well advertised. There is no gate-keeping (from my point of view). New users are welcome. It's easy to learn (for th
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by creer 9mo ago
> The whole point of crypto There is a common confusion in this (perhaps?). Most businesses get created primarily to make money. Not primarily to solve the world's problems. It's easy to say "if they really had their custo
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by creer 9mo ago
You can't do that if you gave up at the very first sigil puzzle. I'm fine with that: to program in Perl you need to be able to follow manuals, man pages, expert answers, - and even perl cookbooks, or CPAN or web searches. It'
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by creer 9mo ago
You COULD, if you wanted, and spent quite a bit of effort in the pursuit of that hobby, participate in one-liner, or obfuscation, or golfing friendly contests. Which were enabled by perl's expressiveness constructs. Nobody pushed anyon
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by creer 9mo ago
Mostly - from here - python is so incredibly slow to write. Who has this kind of time?
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by creer 9mo ago
Which is (sadly) hilarious because that was the reason most people seem to have gone with python: they were told "this is what we use here" or they bought the "line noise" nonsense. They never put much effort into this.
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by creer 9mo ago
There was no such pressure. That's ridiculous. There were a lot of things people could grab as reasons to form an opinion without even reading articles, never mind the tutorial. They then ended up with php or python, even java for cryi
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by creer 9mo ago
What exactly is complex or "super subtle" about this? It's the textbook example from the 1st chapter in the tutorial or something?
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by creer 9mo ago
> in 2026, it'll be 11 developers writing it over 11 years. Perhaps too, a tool that's been around and in active maintenance for 11 years has been wildly successful.
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by creer 9mo ago
It would be nice if academics would move to BOTH publishing the technical write up, AND a more understandable write up of their interpretation of the result (in more detail than the one liner which is in all abstracts.) The technical writeu
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by creer 10mo ago
> Make an S&P10 then instead How do you pick these 10? After the fact, necessarily. So then meaningless for tracking the economy.
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by creer 10mo ago
"Now it's different". Is it really? One aspect of these stories is that we all do age and we do climb into higher positions. So we run into "too old" and "too qualified" and "will leave asap for somet
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by creer 10mo ago
4. Overqualified can also be seen as you are seeking this job purely temporarily. While continuing to seek better. You may be gone within weeks. A more alert project might seek to use your experience at low cost for that little while. But a
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by creer 10mo ago
The very specific example you chose: payroll, shows how it can be difficult to incrementally step from small to huge. As you grow from town to national, you will run into all the disadvantages without really hitting the advantages. I feel t
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by creer 10mo ago
I am agreeing with you that there was a mismatch between the expectations on using the elaborate documentation in its various forms and the tutorials and the stellar course - and a large set of potential users. Nobody expected "the ent
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by creer 10mo ago
> none of them supported mod_perl Once mod_perl existed (it was late, after lots of CGI perl) - I feel that my clients and I never had significant difficulty in finding providers. PHP was all over the place - it felt - more because there
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by creer 10mo ago
> But at least for me, I realized with Perl 5 I wasn't smart enough for it. I feel like you but I love it: I am not limited by the language. Not by perl 5 and not by perl 6: When I am willing, I can dig deeper and find more to work
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by creer 10mo ago
> flamed for not reading the full manual! It was not for not reading the full manual. It was for not using the manual. Somewhere between "not at all", "not competently", "not persistently". And he was pointe
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by creer 10mo ago
> I just didn't feel the need to stick with it. So, to touch on that, no contest that for a while now, you can have a well paying job only writing python. (And perhaps even never going through a formal course on it.) That has worked
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by creer 10mo ago
I know you are not serious but let's go with it anyway. Since we have to be welcoming to newbies :-) Not expected to read cover to cover. Cover to cover would be the tutorial / course work. And even then in a layered language like
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by creer 10mo ago
I have exactly zero functions that are written in both. So comparison is just intuitive: My current projects make extensive use of numerical functions AND of regexes and grammars. Both used extensively. I am very satisfied with the performa
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by creer 10mo ago
> Perl 6 would have had to be a better Perl 5 and a better Python 2 to win. Don't sell perl 6 short. I am using perl 6 for significant projects now (after a career of perl 5) - and it's fundamentally different. I describe it as
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by creer 10mo ago
> It has a logic but it's its own logic. Which is covered in the very first section of the course book? Yes it has its own logic. So do lots of programming languages. How far do we need to take "not reading the doc"? That

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