perlsys

Re:Ask HN: Should I learn C? on Saturday July 17, 2010 @12:05PM (#1524002)

It's better if you dont ask!

I don't believe that Linus ever asked (someone else) if he should learn C. Or that Damien Katz (couchdb creator) ever asked if he should learn Erlang. Or if Brad Fitzpatrick (Livejournal & Danga) ever asked if he should learn Perl!

Just learn what you (from looking around) believe will make you a better or smarter, what is even more important use what you learn. Don't just learn to learn!

Re:CouchDB 1.0 on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @12:46PM (#1515166)

After looking into Erlang for a while now (still in chapter 3 of ERLANG Programming by Francesco Cesarini)

I have to state that writing something this big in Erlang was bold, really, really bold.

Erlang is not really that fun or exciting to use

Re:Higher-Order Perl is available for free as a PDF on Monday July 12, 2010 @05:03PM (#1509418)

so is Pobox good work? And how is Perl working for them?

Re:Ask HN: What makes a good IT Manager? on Thursday July 08, 2010 @05:42PM (#1498879)

You assumed that people from camp (1) may have deficient people skills, and its fair to assume the extremes in this debate.

But what about the extreme of camp (2) isnt that just as bad, wouldnt a manager with deficient technical knowledge make ur life hell!!!

So if we exclude the extremes would u still pick camp (2) ???

Ask HN: What makes a good IT Manager?

Posted by perlsys on Thursday July 08, 2010 @04:53PM
from the ask-hn dept.

At works I've had this debate with some of my colleagues, what makes an IT manager good?Basically the debate boils down to two camps (1) a few (proabably just me) favoring an IT Manager with strong strong techical knowledge, and (2) the other camps that downplays the importance of technical knowledge they argue that it is not required, for an IT manager to have strong technical knowledge,...

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Re:Why is 37Signals always the counter-example? on Saturday May 29, 2010 @09:50AM (#1388724)

Does any one have numbers of 37signals success.

Revenue, Profit, Customer list?

Re:The Second Age of Perl on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @07:20PM (#1382105)

how many time have you heard someone saying BSD is not dead!

Do you think the folks working an using (say) OpenBSD care. Compared to Linux OpenBSD is a lot less usable, yet the passionate coders behind it still offered us PF, OpenSSH, OpenBGPD

How popular do you need to be, to be undead?