kentnl

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by kentnl 12y ago
Posted - January 13, 2011 Marked Dead - April 22, 2011 Today - Aug 5, 2014
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by kentnl 16y ago
Yeah, being eVIl, they probably use Vi.
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by kentnl 16y ago
That's still partially rubbish, because you don't build technology on top of a fax machine. Many of the technologies at the higher level are directly written in C, and its going to be a while before the C goes away. I.e.: its like a world w
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by kentnl 16y ago
Without a testing infrastructure, you pretty much rely on programmers having code doing what they say it does, instead of having proof it does what they say it does. Given human penchant to slip up and not realise problems until after t
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by kentnl 16y ago
It depends which graphs you look at: These graphs tell me 1. Perl is slightly faster. 2. Perl uses much less memory on average 3. Perl uses less code. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... http://shootout.alioth
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by kentnl 16y ago
Probably a good reason to use Perl too, finding a machine without it is hard. =)
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by kentnl 16y ago
Because sometimes objects are the right answer, and when they are the right answer, you want to be maximally equipped to use them as easy as possible. Perl doesn't bash you over the head and make you use objects by making "int" an object, b
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by kentnl 16y ago
Tests. Integrated Bug Tracking. There's 2 reasons.
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by kentnl 16y ago
You haven't really started using Ruby till you start trying to JAPH and golf it. Fortunately, that phase will pass and you'll return to writing maintainable code =). >> "The idea of making tools that are joyful to use to the program
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by kentnl 16y ago
Nice idea, but what tends to happen is this: -- User1235 has joined #perl -- user1235> PERL SUCKS 111!!!11!!1!!11!! -- Chanserv set mode +o mst -- -- user1235 was kicked ( troll ) -- The people who are honestly inte
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by kentnl 16y ago
Protip: you'll get more people interested in you if you spell it Perl instead of PERL. Despite appearances, 'Perl' is not an acronym, there are backronyms for it, but that doesn't mean its an acronym. I say this only because you give the
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by kentnl 16y ago
Pointer Syntax? What? I'm not trying to be an ass here, but I'm confused as how you could have a decade of Perl use up your sleeve and not realise Perl has no pointers. It has references, perhaps, and perhaps I'm just being a semantic pedan
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by kentnl 16y ago
If you'd only seen PHP a few times, applying for a job in it may not be the brightest idea. ( If you have enough experience you could probably do a reasonably good bluff and learn-as-you-go, but not recommended ). I'd suggest something like
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by kentnl 16y ago
Hey, wasn't that the year the economy started to go south? .... Obviously, people stopped employing people in Perl, and the economy took a steep dive because of it!. Use Perl! Save the economy!. ( nb. for people with no sense of humour, th
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by kentnl 16y ago
I see limited use for a digital toaster, there are some perks you /could/ see like having personalized settings which somehow just know which person is using them ( RFID? ) and sets the appropriate toast setting for that person. Possibly
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by kentnl 16y ago
Obviously, the VCR your ${parent} keeps asking you to program for them was purchased because it was more complicated, and that silly microwave they have with a big sign on the power socket not to turn it off at the wall, or you'll have to r
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by kentnl 16y ago
ALL Hail the indestructible clone phone. http://www.envirofone.com/Nokia/3315/details.aspx I owned 2 of these, but sadly, both died the same way.. weird software error "CONTACT SERVICE" and failed to respond to any input. Which is sad, b
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by kentnl 16y ago
Generally, when somebody says "Hi", my reaction is "Oh dear, here comes the dumb question" and I cringe. 9/10 Times I'm right. Generally I tend to /join and then just sit there for a while to discover the norms and protocols of the channel
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by kentnl 16y ago
Multiplexing is multiplexing. That is, encoding multiple data streams across one channel. In our case, thats having a singular SSH connection from a to b, but having multiple streams of bidirectional data flowing across that singular connec
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by kentnl 16y ago
How did I manage to be such an idiot last year?, and how can I not be such an idiot this year?
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by kentnl 16y ago
It depends. Where do you live? Who are your clients? How complex are the projects? How big is the company? How many other staff are there?
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by kentnl 16y ago
Fortran! Our salvation!.
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by kentnl 16y ago
That's nice. Welcome to the internet.
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by kentnl 16y ago
+1 just for the multiplex magic, But then, I /would/ say that =) That TTL thing is handy too, I'm sure I had some understanding of it previously, but reading the article made me check my settings and made me realize my timeouts were ridicul
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by kentnl 16y ago
The "its easy to get it on a webhost" is one I'll give you, its not really even arguable. Sadly this is one of those annoying chicken-egg issues I try rally against. Lots of webhosts are really sub-par, and tend to rip off their clients, an
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by kentnl 16y ago
Just don't do this if you've at some stage backed up another reiserfs filesystem inside your reiserfs filesystem with 'dd'. the rebuild tree trick mistakenly sees entries in the dd'd copy as being files in the parent file system, and then s
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by kentnl 16y ago
Mostly negative personal experiences. But that aside, saying "its everywhere" is in my opinion the /poorest/ argument in favor of anything technical. MySQL has their slogan as being the "Most popular Open Source database", which, by compari
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by kentnl 16y ago
I know its trolling to say "Eww, PHP", but every time these days I see yet another project that runs on it, a little part of me dies inside. :(