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The Anatomy of a Technical Hiring Process(careersjs.com)
2 points by psergeant 6y ago|0 comments
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Patterns for Asynchronous Operations with Async(careersjs.com)
1 points by psergeant 7y ago|0 comments
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by psergeant 8y ago
I follow all of that, sure. But I still don’t think you can blame either on “bottom of the barrel staff” given that the proximate cause appears to be much much closer to the money than them.
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by psergeant 8y ago
All this. It’s surveillance where your observation comes into its own tho.
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by psergeant 8y ago
mst doing some interesting work with babble, a babel for Perl 5. Hoping we get a typescript workalike in Perl.
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by psergeant 8y ago
From the install notes, can someone tell me why BoringSSL needs Perl to build?
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by psergeant 8y ago
I get asked for single characters of mine a lot
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by psergeant 8y ago
> I don't know what the story is in Apple-land The walled garden is great and protects my privacy.
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Perl 6, now also officially known as “Raku”(reddit.com)
6 points by psergeant 8y ago|0 comments
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by psergeant 8y ago
There is a “web” link on this article. If you click it, you’ll find a search engine link to the article which will give you access
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by psergeant 8y ago
We’ve also not convinced our peers to vote in anywhere near the numbers that the boomers do.
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by psergeant 8y ago
> That's tantamount to saying that life now is on balance worse than it was in the pre-boomer period I don’t follow your logic there at all
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by psergeant 8y ago
my $self = shift; can fuck right off.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Related: > Internet and satellite communication had existed in the days of Mahabharata. How could Sanjaya (the charioteer of King Dhritarashtra in the epic) give a detailed account and description to the blind king about the battle of Ku
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by psergeant 8y ago
> That doesn't prevent launching a new ship. Amen. I’d love to see a rebrand to Rakudo and Pumpkin, where the latter is Perl5 plus some long-overdue backwards incompatible changes, but also 99% compatible.
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by psergeant 8y ago
> the UK Probably not for much longer, given the rather interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained_wealth_order
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by psergeant 8y ago
> the choice is a fake one I can’t buy a Whopper at Pizza Express, the parent companies of both are owned by different people, both parent companies have different supply chains and the franchising rules for both are separate. In what wa
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by psergeant 8y ago
> thousands of food carts and trucks And indeed restaurants themselves in the UK, especially pub ones, will order quite a lot of their food partially prepped already
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by psergeant 8y ago
Sounds like a good reason to use a password manager and good backups to store them?
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by psergeant 8y ago
While I’m sure there are occasional counter examples, weren’t these largely from either war zones or with the cooperation of the host country?
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by psergeant 8y ago
I think killing a political dissident in another country that’s not actively at war is considered a bit beyond the pale by most democracies, doubly so if you’re putatively on good terms with them. Mossad, alternatively: https://e
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by psergeant 8y ago
I guess my point is that maybe they wanted the “unnecessary attention”
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by psergeant 8y ago
I conduct so much business via my phone email, and have an assistant doing most computer tasks. Wonder what would need to change to get me off a computer fulltime
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by psergeant 8y ago
Feels like they may be taking a leaf out of the Russo-Skripal handbook here, and making barely any effort to cover their tracks as a show of brazeness to other potential defectors/dissidents. Guessing some fallen-from-favour minor Saud
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by psergeant 8y ago
The grammar correction in Google Translate is a little too good. I was trying to create some broken Russian phrases to send a Russian friend, but I’d put in weird or bad English as an input and get very good Russian as an output!
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by psergeant 8y ago
> There are people who believe free speech is not the ultimate value A right to free speech is a recent, American-centric invention, rather than a natural cornerstone of democracy, a fact that often seems lost on Americans.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Dude, it’s a profitable farm. The only main difference is how they allocate ownership and organise labour. Your criticism applies equally to all farms.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Why stop there? They haven’t even factored in the cost of developing agriculture from a hunter-gatherer society, or the cost of human evolution or or or
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by psergeant 8y ago
> since you have to inspect all cells to decide the order in which to evaluate them I don’t think this is true; evaluation order of a cell with no dependencies or whose dependencies are already resolved shouldn’t matter
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by psergeant 8y ago
> Oxford or Cambridge in England may not be too expensive They’re really not far off London prices, and because they’re in the UK, the weather sucks

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