hercynium

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by hercynium 1mo ago
I'm guessing that the OP didn't know about the Ars article when they posted. Perhaps "serendipitously" would have been a better word?
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by hercynium 1mo ago
Cordyceps, huh? An interesting choice! And ironically the subject of an article on Ars Technica that just dropped... https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/parasitic-zombie-fun...
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by hercynium 2mo ago
I think the Internet is running out of names for things because so expected something related to this! https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/librrd.en.html Still, it looks pretty neat. Thanks for sharing!
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by hercynium 2y ago
Same here... back in 2011 or so. We needed something much more performant than WURFL. My efforts eventually became a feature/product at Akamai known as "Edge Device Characterization" (EDC) using algorithms not dissimilar to h
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by hercynium 7y ago
I've had great success with a parser-generator known as "Marpa" [1]. One of the things I particularly liked about it is how simple it made to emit accurate and useful error messages when parsing complex languages. In addition
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by hercynium 7y ago
Buy here or read online for free. This is the official website of the book: http://modernperlbooks.com/ (hint - it's worth buying :)
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by hercynium 7y ago
What's he do, nibble your bum?
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by hercynium 8y ago
I agree, as I've missed a dose here and there over the years and experienced the intense paresthesia and headaches and nausea from withdrawal. Background: I've lived my entire adult life (and most of my teens) with severe chronic
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Parsing: a timeline(jeffreykegler.github.io)
6 points by hercynium 8y ago|0 comments
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by hercynium 8y ago
It's a pretty impressive process. The cable is indeed hoisted up, after being "hooked" by a device dragging along the ocean floor. I think I saw a video of this once, here's one on youtube (not the same one I saw, but se
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by hercynium 9y ago
Smalltalk is definitely underrated. It can be an extremely productive language, and has built-in capabilities you won't find in any "mainstream" language that make coding in it very pleasant. :)
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by hercynium 9y ago
This depends on your definition of "underrated" but I'd definitely throw Perl 5 into the ring here. Edit: Specifically, Perl 5 + CPAN is what makes it so much better than many people think. The language itself is insanely fle
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Introduction to Marpa Book in progress(jeffreykegler.github.io)
7 points by hercynium 10y ago|1 comments
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by hercynium 10y ago
I hope that at least Cloudera will profit and thrive. Having used plain Apache components, then Hortonworks, then Cloudera... They are far and away the superior distribution, regardless of whether or not you are an "enterprise" cu
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by hercynium 11y ago
While Perl 6 was designed with English method and object names, it's a fully-Unicode-enabled language, with the ability for identifiers and even operators to be defined in any language one may desire. The name of the (currently) primar
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by hercynium 11y ago
I can't compare to the tools you mentioned since I haven't done much PHP in the last 10 years, but for Perl, I would strongly recommend you check out the following (Most are from the CPAN): * For a graphical IDE: Komodo or Pad
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by hercynium 11y ago
Reminds me of a friend whose band cut an album back before anybody could do it, and got a local music chain to put them on the shelves. A month later, he bought a single copy from that store, explaining, "I just wanted to double my rec
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by hercynium 12y ago
I imagine this is pronounced like the word "stupid". I'm not saying it is, but it's an amusing thought :)
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by hercynium 12y ago
I haven't been there for almost two years, even then, I'm sure most engineers wouldn't have stood silent if an OSS license was being violated... unless their managers made them afraid for their jobs and careers for doing so.
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by hercynium 13y ago
Indeed, I think we're about to see some very interesting times in the next year or so, with regard to GUI/Windowing systems in the Linux world. Wayland has been a long time coming, and I do hope that's because those working o
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by hercynium 13y ago
Sometimes that's the best perspective to have. And in this case, I believe it is. If left up to us engineers/hackers/nerds, we would continue to stubbornly work on or with one system or the other, prolonging the debate indefi
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by hercynium 13y ago
AFAIK, Packages are available in Arch and the latest releases of Fedora may have Wayland packages available, but it's not (yet) the default window system for either distro. Fedora has been planning to ship Wayland in the main distro
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by hercynium 13y ago
chuckles This isn't a SSL cert screw-up, but certainly a silly misconfiguration. They should certainly have known better than to let that happen. To be fair... when I worked there, I thought about different ways to transparently enab
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by hercynium 13y ago
Then my sympathies to you . But people who've been in this industry far longer than I have assured me - it's pretty damn normal. Oh, and people in other industries have told me it's par for the course everywhere. This is why
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by hercynium 13y ago
No apologies needed, but thanks! I learned some valuable lessons.
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by hercynium 13y ago
Heh. Almost two years ago I was fired from a fairly prominent internet services company... Ah, who am I trying to avoid? It was Akamai. I speak ill of them all the time. Not about their impressive infrastructure and engineering, or the scor
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by hercynium 13y ago
Our backgrounds and experiences may well be very different, leading to starkly different opinions - but, well... that's programming! Though I don't know Haskell, ML, or Rust, I do know Java, Clojure, C++, and a few other languag
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by hercynium 13y ago
Bingo!
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by hercynium 13y ago
Indeed, the blurring of this distinction became the means by which Larry Wall earned his college degree! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Education He talks about it in more depth in this interview: http:&#x2F
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by hercynium 13y ago
There are two ways to deal with bugs. Correcting them, and avoiding them. ... Of these two, the only one that is significantly influenced by the structure of programming languages is avoidance. This is an interesting statement to me, an

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