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Re:Ask HN: Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?
on Saturday January 30, 2016 @09:52PM (#11005016)
I don't think that's true with Perl at least, unless something has changed dramatically very recently.
Re:Obama Pledges $4B to Computer Science in US Schools
on Saturday January 30, 2016 @03:03PM (#11003485)
I can't wait for the labor surplus to drive down my wages.
Re:The US Economic Growth Is Over. (2014) [pdf]
on Friday January 29, 2016 @01:16PM (#10997171)
I really find that hard to believe, and historically real growth has averaged about 2% year over year. Just because it has had short-run highs in the 1950s and 2000s does not mean that right now is abnormally low.
Re:The US Economic Growth Is Over. (2014) [pdf]
on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:06PM (#10996468)
Growth is not over:
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/GDPC1
Edit: To elaborate, the rantings of one economist who has been wrong many times over does not make for a compelling work.
Re:Oklahoma City's War on Obesity
on Thursday October 15, 2015 @12:00PM (#10393906)
I'm from Oklahoma, and I always wonder how much of our social behavior is based on the fact that Oklahoma was, until recently, Indian Territory and land worked by farmers who came around the time of the land runs. If you're struggling to provide enough food for your family in 1889, there's no way you are letting your children not eat all of their food. I'm sure that is self-perpetuating in some way.
Re:Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big language [...
on Thursday September 03, 2015 @10:05PM (#10168496)
I absolutely love Perl, and I think that the newest versions of Perl 5 have taken much of the good things that Perl 6 promised and added them. I really think that Perl 6 misses the point and removes all of the charm of Perl. Why change sigils and all of these operators? The people who don't like them aren't using Perl anyway, and they won't be using Perl 6 just because it implements them in a more obvious but less meaningful way.
I also don't think the addition of a more mainstream object system is a positive thing, but that's a debate for another time.
Edit: And it's not just about sigils, but about changing things for no meaningful reason, especially things that set Perl apart and make it what it is.
Re:How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry
on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @04:55PM (#9932251)
But regardless, I think Apple could have easily ended up just the same as the others without it.
Re:How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry
on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @04:27PM (#9932085)
Microsoft bailed them out to avoid further antitrust inquiries.
Re:Capitalist Soul Rises as Ho Chi Minh City Sheds Its Past
on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @10:09AM (#9922350)
How great was life for the average Cuban in pre-revolution days? I think if I were a Cuban I would be more than skeptical of undoing all of the positive things that have been accomplished since 1959.
Re:Why INTERCAL is better than Perl (2002)
on Friday July 17, 2015 @06:26PM (#9905721)
Perl is a terrific language. When's the last time you've used it?
Re:French government orders Uber taxi ban after protests
on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:13PM (#9785628)
A good but unfortunately temporary decision for the working people of France. Good on them.
Re:Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?
on Monday June 22, 2015 @10:13AM (#9758421)
It's a real shame that Perl isn't a popular language anymore. At least there's still an active community.
Re:Ripple fined for acting as a money services business without regist...
on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @10:20PM (#9496260)
Too bad people aren't going to jail for openly flouting regulations. That would probably stop a lot of it.
Re:The compiler flag that time forgot
on Monday May 04, 2015 @08:34PM (#9490221)
Is <br /> really prone to that? I've only seen that in people actually trying to do XHTML.
Re:Bank of America Patent Application #20140229239 – “Face Retirement ...
on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @11:43PM (#9456379)
Why? I don't know of anything named Pearl. I know of Perl, but not Pearl.
Re:Ask HN: Do you help beggars?
on Monday April 27, 2015 @03:15PM (#9448527)
Most homeless people can get food, at least in the United States. It's possible that he had other needs that he didn't have easy access to otherwise.
Re:Show HN: An open source baseball statistics manager
on Sunday April 19, 2015 @02:03PM (#9404081)
https://github.com/cms07/general-manager
It's all there.
Re:Responsive Tables in Pure CSS
on Monday April 06, 2015 @02:40PM (#9329867)
That's exactly what I don't like about it.
Re:Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
on Monday April 06, 2015 @02:38PM (#9329860)
Spend your better years inside during the 9 months of Finnish Winter.
Re:Responsive Tables in Pure CSS
on Monday April 06, 2015 @12:43PM (#9329061)
I hate it when web developers do things like this. The normal version of things is almost always better it seems.
Re:Why is perl losing its touch?
on Sunday February 22, 2015 @03:47PM (#9091004)
Why wouldn't you want sigils?
Re:An empirical study of goto in C code
on Thursday February 12, 2015 @06:19PM (#9042013)
This study is ridiculous. Dijkstra's paper was written before C was. There's no reason to believe that he was referring to the style used commonly in C code.
Edit: I just mean the tone the study writer takes is ridiculous. It is good to know that goto is used thoughtfully.
Re:I'm thinking of going full code-hipster and learning Tcl
on Thursday February 12, 2015 @12:28AM (#9037561)
I've done a good deal with Perl's Tkx library, which basically forces you to understand Tcl, but I haven't used it beyond that.
Re:CrunchBang Linux: The end
on Friday February 06, 2015 @08:35AM (#9008846)
I used CrunchBang for quite a while, and it's sad to see it go, but I completely understand why the maintainer doesn't want to do it anymore, even though I disagree with his statement that CrunchBang no longer has value.
Re:The First Website Ever Made
on Thursday January 01, 2015 @05:54PM (#8824650)
I know there are other ways to generate it. I'm just wondering what self-respecting dev wouldn't write their own.
Re:The First Website Ever Made
on Thursday January 01, 2015 @01:47PM (#8823759)
Is there such thing as not-hand-written HTML?
Re:What Happened in 2014?
on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @06:34PM (#8821586)
Can you elaborate some on this?
Re:Gmail blocked in China
on Monday December 29, 2014 @04:19PM (#8811847)
I think that's a bit disingenuous as to how single party politics work.
Re:The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd ed.
on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @01:54PM (#8331336)
The first edition is quite good. I'm sure the 2nd is just as good.