harbud

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by harbud 14y ago
I agree on several of your points. CPAN is kind of meh right now, since Python/Ruby/node.js are quickly catching up (or have passed it, even). You can quite easily find libraries existing in other languages and not in CPAN. For me it now bo
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by harbud 14y ago
Except perl 5.17.6! (I suspect the hash randomization feature will cause a lot of disturbance)
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by harbud 14y ago
Is there a colored JSON dumper in Perl?
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by harbud 14y ago
Reason no 6: The expression of people's faces when I tell them that I use Perl. “Oh! wow, why?” Priceless.
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by harbud 14y ago
Except wget -r, which is still widely used and has no equivalent functionality in curl.
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by harbud 14y ago
Ok, httpie is prettier and has some syntax shortcuts, but it doesn't even do a fraction of what curl or wget does. No recursive downloads, no simulating diferent HTTP protocol version, no SSL options, no even retry options! #fail (I am in n
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by harbud 14y ago
I thought there was going to be an actual game.
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by harbud 14y ago
The winner will be ICANN who laughs all the way to the bank with hundreds of new gTLD registration fees (equalling tens of millions of US$). The losers will most probably be companies like uniregistry.com (or, more specifically, their inves
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by harbud 14y ago
Judging from the store website: - Recharge cycle every 3-4 days (compared to months/years for a traditional watch) - No apps listed for functionalities that usually belong to a feature/sports watch (heart pulse/BP monitor, temp/moisture/alt
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by harbud 14y ago
Nice, although were I to write one, I'd probably just use PowerDNS and its pipe backend. Probably only some 30 lines of Perl/Ruby/whatever. Example: http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/browser/trunk/pdns/modules/pip...
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by harbud 14y ago
Don't worry, if this workaround is popular enough, Apple will change its policy again.
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by harbud 14y ago
Hence, FB has been trying to create its own phone/mobile OS.
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by harbud 14y ago
Probably because FB is not a bank, and there are strict regulations in most countries for companies that store people's money like banks. Paypal is not a bank either, but I'd guess storing credits is still easier regulation-wise.
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by harbud 14y ago
Yahoo! never cared for Linux users. Remember the Linux version of Yahoo! Messenger? It lagged behind the Windows version so much before being quietly removed. Coincidentally, I never care much for Yahoo! anymore.
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by harbud 14y ago
Single window, ok cool. But after ages, still no tool to draw some boxes and circles? This is proof that Gimp's goal is not designer's productivity. Pass.
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by harbud 14y ago
Nothing beats Org ( http://orgmode.org ) for me. But sadly outside of Emacs (and Vim) it's virtually unknown to the rest of the world.
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by harbud 14y ago
The lack of libwget does frustate me sometimes; I have to use wget strictly via command-line. curl also has some nice features lacking in wget: selecting HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1, support for multiple SSL libraries, etc. But wget surely has man
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by harbud 14y ago
But curl curve is inclining.
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by harbud 15y ago
Thanks! Although over time I've also come to accept that I will never be near as fast as the natives (or people who learn to read from when they were a child).
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by harbud 15y ago
Off topic: I started learning Chinese a few years ago when I was already an adult, and my Chinese reading speed is still stuck below 150 WPM, while my English, also non-native language, is around 500 WPM. Any tip to increase it? Recently tr
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by harbud 15y ago
So the only use case for this application is when one cannot use "the real thing" (org-mode in Emacs), e.g. when browsing using an internet kiosk PC, tablet, and smartphone? Btw, I do hope tablets and phones can run Emacs soon :)
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by harbud 15y ago
Well, competitors have existed since a decade ago, but many have also died. The closest competitor now seems to be Plesk, but it hasn't been able to snatch the crown from cPanel yet. If I remember it, Plesk 7 or 8 for Windows is a mess. All
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by harbud 15y ago
I'd rather see an extensible quoting syntax a la Postgres' pl/pgSQL, e.g. ``j` {"a": 1}``. When you want to support YAML: ``y` {a: 1}``.
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by harbud 15y ago
So you never use 'single' and "double" quotes?
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by harbud 15y ago
Never used photo tagging in G+ or FB, opt-in for who btw? For the one being tagged or the user who uploaded the photo?
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by harbud 15y ago
We just need more competitors for PayPal. Perhaps one from credit card company, one from Google, one from Facebook, and a couple from successful, less evil (for now) startups.
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by harbud 15y ago
Just bought my first domain name at GoDaddy 2 days ago (it's a .co, and GoDaddy has a nice bargain on those). Oh well, maybe I'll transfer in a couple of months. Actually I hate the web interface and domain management panel. "Too user-frien
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by harbud 15y ago
So what do the French use for talking to fellow Frenchmen? (Like QQ for Chinese).
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by harbud 15y ago
Thanks. I think the music sounds cool and is quite apt for the page.