Unfortunately you are right on this. Perl is becoming a 'Church of Perl', and its main designers and contributors are 'The high priests of Perl'. Their discussions often degenerate into kind of 'how many angels can fit into a perl-based Hash table'. Of course I shouldn't say that. I did use Perl many times - but I usually limit myself to its fairly small subset.
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I went through the same process, so probably sharing my experiences may help (?). At some point I've been doing lots of coding, was happy as a clam. Then I've met my old school buddy who became a scientist, doing some fundamental research, told me most of his work is done with a piece of paper and pen. That made me think a bit and realize that being a 'bleeding edge techie' is cool for a while, but after 10 or 15 or 20 years (or sooner) you probably would get tired of chasing the technological changes. Since I've never contemplated to become a managerial type, I've decided to go back to school - even if I already have MSCS (on a part time basis while working) and polish up my math, probability, and statistics, take more advanced courses, and try to refocus on computer, network, and application performance analysis (and capacity planning). THis is where I am right now. A world of math (and statistics) is such that some fundamental ideas (discovered even a 100 years ago) are still valid, the trick is to figure out which one to apply to a particular situation (but this is where creative aspect of performance analysis comes in), and most of old, all this type of knowledge is systematic, the longer you learn the more you know, and the older you are the more experienced you are. I am really happy with the way my career is moving (but I've always enjoyed math anyway). Some recent advances in statistical analysis (as pertained to analyzing network performance) are rather striking. To me is like encountering the whole new world.
Chinese has changed so little because the whole chinise society was fairly static for a long time. Societal changes force the changes in the language and vice versa. Speaking of which, rather amusing observation. I left Russia a while ago, before the Iron Curtain went down. I have finally located a few Russian web sites (excellent by the way), and what immediately stroke my mind is that how language got changed. Apparently Internet invasion happened so rapidly Russian culture simply didn't have a time to properly absorb and assililate all the related terminology, so they all use English terms and quite often to the point of abuse - even if the russian term is already available (like 'Solution'), they prefer to use an English word for it. Makes a real fun to read their pages.
How do Dr. Dre's recordings qualify as 'intellectual property?'. Well I remember there was one 'performing artist' in Boston who's only talent was to take a shit on a stage. I guess they both qualify at about the same level.
Threads which probably will be thrown away (the original one are no good either) A questionable compiler (for quite a while) I'm not impressed. Perl is no longer a 'glue language' it claims to be (TCL is). It is quickly becoming a BLOBware.
the lobbying already started, even before MS hired Ralph Reed, and this attempt to influence the court decision via the congress (and as we see now - via possible president of the U.S.) is rather blatant attempt to subvert the foundation of this country in terms of separation of different branches of power. This whole thing stinks, even without Ralph Reed.
With 256Kbps MP3 shines, but with a lower rates you may hear the compression artifacts, it doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen. it appears that at 256Kbps artifacts disappear. If you want to have a fairly high and consistent quality, even 192Kbps may not suffice, unless you use something better than MP3. AAC is better but some heavily patented that I don't see any AAC-based freeware coming in a near future. There is some interesting info on www.mp3-tech.org
They are promoting society where everything spies on each other. This is probably good for Pinkerton (everyone is working for us!) but bad for the rest of us. Dialog with Pinkerton? Dialog with KGB? Dialog with Gestapo? I'm coing to contact People for the American Way instead.
They have really cool graphics on their site, and this is all that really matters. I have also noticed that the result of experiment with EXACTLY what there formula has predicted, and you can't argue with this, dude. The formula is really cool-looking too, by the way.
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Yo, bratha. We need a new language 'RAP'.
Unfortunately you are right on this. Perl is becoming a 'Church of Perl', and its main designers and contributors are 'The high priests of Perl'. Their discussions often degenerate into kind of 'how many angels can fit into a perl-based Hash table'. Of course I shouldn't say that. I did use Perl many times - but I usually limit myself to its fairly small subset.
I went through the same process, so probably sharing my experiences may help (?). At some point I've been doing lots of coding, was happy as a clam. Then I've met my old school buddy who became a scientist, doing some fundamental research, told me most of his work is done with a piece of paper and pen. That made me think a bit and realize that being a 'bleeding edge techie' is cool for a while, but after 10 or 15 or 20 years (or sooner) you probably would get tired of chasing the technological changes. Since I've never contemplated to become a managerial type, I've decided to go back to school - even if I already have MSCS (on a part time basis while working) and polish up my math, probability, and statistics, take more advanced courses, and try to refocus on computer, network, and application performance analysis (and capacity planning). THis is where I am right now. A world of math (and statistics) is such that some fundamental ideas (discovered even a 100 years ago) are still valid, the trick is to figure out which one to apply to a particular situation (but this is where creative aspect of performance analysis comes in), and most of old, all this type of knowledge is systematic, the longer you learn the more you know, and the older you are the more experienced you are. I am really happy with the way my career is moving (but I've always enjoyed math anyway). Some recent advances in statistical analysis (as pertained to analyzing network performance) are rather striking. To me is like encountering the whole new world.
I think Tom was polite. This is your e-mail to him which is entirely pointless and clueless as well. Have a day.
is the sound of me farting. The sound of the Creater is the second most supreme sound.
I ran into the russian site containing all top-of-the line MP3 encoders and other good staff. Don't have a URL handy though. :-)
Chinese has changed so little because the whole chinise society was fairly static for a long time. Societal changes force the changes in the language and vice versa. Speaking of which, rather amusing observation. I left Russia a while ago, before the Iron Curtain went down. I have finally located a few Russian web sites (excellent by the way), and what immediately stroke my mind is that how language got changed. Apparently Internet invasion happened so rapidly Russian culture simply didn't have a time to properly absorb and assililate all the related terminology, so they all use English terms and quite often to the point of abuse - even if the russian term is already available (like 'Solution'), they prefer to use an English word for it. Makes a real fun to read their pages.
How do Dr. Dre's recordings qualify as 'intellectual property?'. Well I remember there was one 'performing artist' in Boston who's only talent was to take a shit on a stage. I guess they both qualify at about the same level.
they should get their money from RIAA and recording industry.
Threads which probably will be thrown away (the original one are no good either) A questionable compiler (for quite a while) I'm not impressed. Perl is no longer a 'glue language' it claims to be (TCL is). It is quickly becoming a BLOBware.
let's hope he'll die of cancer soon.
It's just you.
the lobbying already started, even before MS hired Ralph Reed, and this attempt to influence the court decision via the congress (and as we see now - via possible president of the U.S.) is rather blatant attempt to subvert the foundation of this country in terms of separation of different branches of power. This whole thing stinks, even without Ralph Reed.
With 256Kbps MP3 shines, but with a lower rates you may hear the compression artifacts, it doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen. it appears that at 256Kbps artifacts disappear. If you want to have a fairly high and consistent quality, even 192Kbps may not suffice, unless you use something better than MP3. AAC is better but some heavily patented that I don't see any AAC-based freeware coming in a near future. There is some interesting info on www.mp3-tech.org
beer makes people nice, relaxed and friendly. beer perfectly mixes with linux. feed beer to pinguins!
They are promoting society where everything spies on each other. This is probably good for Pinkerton (everyone is working for us!) but bad for the rest of us. Dialog with Pinkerton? Dialog with KGB? Dialog with Gestapo? I'm coing to contact People for the American Way instead.
This is your brain on coke.
Make it a swedish blonde and to hell with Linux.
17) Now I want to overclock this bad boy 18) Yes, but can I run Beowulf on that? 19) Taco sux
They have really cool graphics on their site, and this is all that really matters. I have also noticed that the result of experiment with EXACTLY what there formula has predicted, and you can't argue with this, dude. The formula is really cool-looking too, by the way.
What you really mean is'Those who do not study Turing machine are dommed to reinvent {OS/360|Unix|Linux|W2K}, poorly'
fatbrain for instance. I don't think it's such a big deal to boycott Amazon.com and still get your books for cheap
He meant 'And GNOME begat EASEL; and EASEL begat WEASEL, and WEASEL begat TWEASEL'. Still you mama can't use Linux. Cheers,
Amen, brother ...
I remember seeing someone his comment on Java. He just don't get it! 'Don't understand what all fuzz is all about' or something like that ...