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Israeli Singer Publishes a Song In Hebrew — and Perl
Noiser writes "The Israeli pop singer Aya Korem published her new song "Computer Engineer" as a website that shows translation to the Perl programming language along with the lyrics. Perl is quite a good match, given that the Perl community has a long tradition of publishing "Perl poetry", and this song proves that this tradition is very much alive. No Flash is required to view the website, so if you are an HTML5 geek, have no worries."
Hack!
The cow says "Moo." The dog says "Woof." The Timothy says "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
That's actually pretty good. I've never been happier that I speak Hebrew. And perl.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
The music I get, but how does this tie in with the Perl code? Is this the madness one falls into after graduating from basic Perl Zealotry?
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I don't speak Hebrew, but I got a pretty good idea of the lyrics from the Perl.
Perl poetry looks only marginally better than Vogon poetry.
pop? and distributed as a zip file ? .. lame ..
Even Adobe is getting rid of the last remnant of Flash support, let alone development. Flash is dead. Noticing that doesn't make one an HTML5 geek.
Please, no one is buying your "apartheid" BS here. The Palestinians have few options because of their own actions. Take your intellectually dishonest and hypocritical "boycott" elsewhere. Whether or not one agrees with Israel this stuff is stupid showboating that does absolutely nothing to address any of the issues on either side.
She's kinda Michael Bolton of Israel..
cute clip though
The programmer appears to be confusing the 'eq' and '==' operators; the 'eq' operator in Perl is used for string comparison, while == is used for numerical comparison. The result of using '==' on two strings, e.g. "M" == "F" will always be true, in the sense that 0 == 0. The 'eq' operator *can* be used to test whether 1 == 1, but will report that "1.0" does not equal "1".
Example:
Recommend developing a battery of tests using Test::More to verify the author's assumptions.
No "use strict" ? No "use warnings" ? I've stopped reading already.
Do Palestinians in the West Bank under Israeli occupation get a vote in Israeli elections?
Does that become less justifiable the longer they are occupied?
Will it be any different to apartheid when the occupation is centuries old instead of a few decades?
At least perl has punctuation. Hebrew would be hard to read.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
So no
use English;
Do Palestinians in the West Bank under Israeli occupation get a vote in Israeli elections?
Seeing as there are 12 Arab members of the Knesset it seems that Palestinians are represented. How many non Arabs are there in the Palestinian government? How may Jews are allowed to live anywhere in Palestinian territory? If you really want to see racist (maybe even "apartheid?") rule look no further than the PA.
Does that become less justifiable the longer they are occupied?
Will it be any different to apartheid when the occupation is centuries old instead of a few decades?
Invalid question. They are 'occupied' due to their own actions. If there is justification for an action initially, then the justification would remain the same as long as the initial conditions are unchanged. And whether or not what you say is accurate has nothing to do with an intellectually dishonest 'boycott' of Israel. Although it is better than the usual Palestinian method of protesting, which is murdering Israeli women and children- if these are the only two options you can comprehend, then keep it up.
Does this mean Perl will see a boost in the next TIOBE index?
Link to a song that plays outright at a very loud volume with no volume control so you have look for pulseaudio volume control instead. That must be awesome and revolutionary web 3.0.
Anyway, the song is all in arabic with the singer saying "Hachem" here and there, so you can't understand anything of it.
(from the Hebrew, not the Perl)
It's funny that you married a computer engineer
It's funny, in the end you went to study like everyone
You told me you wanted to live out of the box
You told me you wanted to conquer the world
I remember you breathing
It's funny that you now have a office and secretary
And a beautiful white Mazda company car
You told me once you are afraid of commitment
You told me you can't be mine
I remember you breathing
Ai-oh He has no problems
Ai-oh He's definitely a lucky guy
Ai-oh He has an investment fund
Ai-oh He definitely wants to die already
Let me guess, you bought a house in the neighborhood
To not be far from the parents
How all the houses look exactly the same
And all the people look very happy
I remember you breathing
Ai-oh He has no problems
Ai-oh He's definitely a lucky guy
Ai-oh He has an investment fund
Ai-oh He definitely wants to die already
I went and listened to the song, and though I couldn't understand it or the Perl on the screen, I enjoyed it. It would be awfully nice to see an English translation to I could follow along better. Is this something somebody here could do?
Code sure could use some cleaning up (all those "foo's" !!!). But I suppose that (and obvious subroutines) would detract from the musical flow of the thing.
Clever, still.
As far as the intellectual quality of the boycott, I guess Stephen Hawking hasn't sat around and thought about it as deeply as you have.
Seeing as he is now being accused of hypocrisy over his continued use of Israeli technology, I'm guessing he didn't think about it very much. Great physicist, I enjoy his work, and fortunately he seems to bounce back from his previous mistakes. I'm sure he'll bounce back from this mistake too.
I didn't ask about who can be elected. I asked about who can vote.
Answering an unasked question is just avoidance.
Jews not being allowed to live in the parts of Palestine that the PA has 'control' over isn't apartheid.
I don't believe you are stupid enough to think that.
The accusations are just hasbara. The Intel I7 chip was designed in Hillsboro Oregon and the Sr. Principal Engineer’s name is Ronak Singhal, an Indian. The design team does not consist of Israelis and is not located in Israel. Hawking’s sentence construction software, EZ Keys, was designed and built by an American company, Words Plus, which was based in Palmdale, California. Hawkings speech synthesizer, NeoSpeech, is produced by a company based in Fremont, California and backed by Voiceware Co of Korea. It has nothing to do with Israel either. Hawkings system used to run AMD but Intel CEO Gordon Moore personally persuaded Hawking to switch to custom Intel hardware.
Perhaps Hawking didn't abide by a Chinese cultural and academic boycott because there neither exists one called for by Tibetan civil society nor was he personally persuaded by any Tibetan scientists as he was by Palestinian scientists.
In any event, Israel's technological prowess doesn't excuse its ongoing ethnic cleansing.