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Why Corporates Hate Perl
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If we forget the conspiracy theories for a while, there are other reasons too. A 100K/year good programmer can also have difficulties understanding perl code.
If you look at the most efficient perl code, it will be very small, and do a lot. But it will also mean that nobody else can understand the code
Heck I have difficulty in understanding a couple own scripts if I look at them after a year, and that too when I add comments.
Perl is a very very powerful language. A small change can make the code do something completely different, hence the fear.
For example look at this s!(?:^|\w*/|\.\./|\./)[^\s,@;:]*(?<=/)([^\s,@;:]+?)(?=[\s,@;:]|$)!$1!g;
Interesting? Thats a one line regexp which does something which appears to be very very simple to do, but actually isnt.
Of course rich people show off!
IF stores are legally allowed to sell clothers which cost barely 5$ to make for $5000, why not developers. After all this ad could be the Lui vuitton of software....
Point to ponder, ain't it?
Many people in "other countries" use scooters and motorbikes to work. They usually give you 50kmpl(Its Kilometers/liter) easily as opposed to 10kmpl of the car, and 10 miles in a 150cc motorbike is actually not tiring and it won't really make you sweat bad.
They cost 1000$.
Other than that there is always the option of electric bike which you can charge in office.
I stay in India. Most Telcos here use VOIP backend for call transmission. i.e. when you make a long distance call, they charge you extra over a local call, even though it costs them the same.
with competition getting stronger, hopefully this nonsense will be a thing of the past.
There was a study which said that Cancer will be disease of the future.
Not because we are doing something to encourage cancer, but because other causes are being defeated.
In olden times people used to die of typhoid, cholera etc., at a younger age. Cancer rarely got a foothold.
Now with people living to 70s or 80s easily diseases like cancer are becoming more noticeable.
Who cares even if you shoot 90% of your spammers. What matters is that your country contributes more spam than China and Russia, yet you think banning Russia and china will solve spam problem.
you related to Bushie darling?
There are 2 type of people posting on this thread.
One type is who are against people buying Fuel guzzlers when they don't need them.
The other type are those who just have an agenda against any vehicle thats not a sedan/hatch/minivan.
You belong to second category.
for example CRV. It gives 23mpg as compared to honda accord which gives 24mpg.
In all respects its a very good handling safe vehicle with crumple zones and ample safety.
But still you label the owner as trying to prove something.
By your logic anybody who buys a good looking/butch looking/non VW beetle looking vehicle is trying to compensate for something/trying to tackle midlife crisis guy.
Thats not the case. The problem is that America still buys a lot of "I am a truck but I will call myself a SUV" vehicles.
There are lot of monoque chasis construction all time AWD crossovers which are good looking, offer a higher seating position, handle well, and give good gas mileage(Atleast better than minivans)
Sure get a 1500cc motorbike(1500cc is what car engines are) you get high Fuel consumption.
A 200cc bike can easily do 40kmpl in normal conditions(urban city mix)
a 125cc bike can do 70-80kmpl with ease.
I used to drive a 150cc bike which gave me 55-60kmpl and I often used to go at 60 miles/hour.
Even in a country like India, which has really shoddy tax structure for things electrical and electronic, an electric scooter costs less than 800$.
http://www.induselectrans.com/
I suspect with tax breaks, such a bike would cost only 500$ in the US, all inclusive!
Of course you can't pedal some of the versions
The best way to not leak memory is to never allocate it in the first place. The best way to avoid overflowing raw buffers is to not use raw buffers. Use the containers. When you think you can't, think harder.
I have a better way. Do not write any code. This will ensure that no memory, disk space or processor cycles are wasted
When I went to see Yosemite, and had just a day(half actually), I could not figure out in what sequence to follow so that I see most of the spots.
such a application for google maps will be just great!
I count myself to be fortunate in a job where I don't have to slog 60-80 hours a week. But many people are not that lucky.
"Take another job".
Very easy to say. Do you even realize that almost everywhere in the software field the engineers are "expected" to put in 60 hours or more a week. In some good companies, at the end of the project you are allowed to take couple of weeks paid vacation, but its rare.
Not everybody has the luxury to walk out, and money does not grow on trees.
People don't like to be exploited, its just that sometimes there is not much choice. You always have a choice, but sometimes its the devil or the deep sea, or Out of the frying pan into the fire.
This kind of piracy is so common, that most people who go to small time assemblers expect windows XP or even Vista for free.
If M$ starts cracking down people are not going to pay something like 200$. Its like somebody asking for half of your months salary! Many people who are getting computers nowadays get them on installments and earn around Rs.20,000-30000/month. So asking them to pay 8000 for software means they go elsewhere.
M$ got so popular in India just because windows was "free". Free as in beer.
India is a very very corrupt country, with more than half the money going to politicians pockets, and not to mention pilferage by govt. officers. Inspite of that the Indian Railway system carries millions of people each day, and makes a profit too. Its not a question of "making profit difficult". Its more a case of "Lack of will" in the US
I guess this will not receive any help from Pharma companies. Reason, low amount of money. I have personally seen this happening in case of another drug. Once after a culture report we found that the only drug which would deactivate this bacteria was the cheapest antibiotic available in the market (1rs/tablet in India, or 1p in US$ amount). But very few chemists stock it. Why? doctors don't recommend it. It also can take care of many bacteria for which there are much more expensive antibiotics available and only those get prescribed. Had to literally scout the whole city to get the medicine. Low profit margins? Nobody is interested, this is the state of the drug industry today, and it is a sad state. So if somebody developed a cheap "open source" drug which will take of most bacterial infections, nobody will be interested, however, if the same drug is so expensive that you can't afford it without insurance, it will get backing, no matter how lousy it is.
Let me tell a fact. Climate change is not due to us, its due to Sun getting hotter. Its proved and the ultimate truth. Happy now?
So what does it change? Does it change that the earth is getting warmer? No Does it change that sea levels will rise? No Does it change that polar ice caps will melt disrupting global weather patterns? No Does it change this can lead to drastic impact on world food production? No
Your attitude is like - Diseases are not man made, so don't take antibiotics. If it was calculated that an asteroid will strike earth after 10 years and cause mass extinction, would you want everyone to sit on it because its not man made?
Grow up. The problem is the concern part. Who caused it will will decide later. So if there is something Humans can do to offset nature, its better to do it before its too late. Nature being the cause won't change the fact that the global climate change is not good for us.
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If we forget the conspiracy theories for a while, there are other reasons too.
A 100K/year good programmer can also have difficulties understanding perl code.
If you look at the most efficient perl code, it will be very small, and do a lot. But it will also mean that nobody else can understand the code
Heck I have difficulty in understanding a couple own scripts if I look at them after a year, and that too when I add comments.
Perl is a very very powerful language. A small change can make the code do something completely different, hence the fear.
For example look at this
s!(?:^|\w*/|\.\./|\./)[^\s,@;:]*(?<=/)([^\s,@;:]+?)(?=[\s,@;:]|$)!$1!g;
Interesting?
Thats a one line regexp which does something which appears to be very very simple to do, but actually isnt.
Of course rich people show off! IF stores are legally allowed to sell clothers which cost barely 5$ to make for $5000, why not developers. After all this ad could be the Lui vuitton of software.... Point to ponder, ain't it?
Many people in "other countries" use scooters and motorbikes to work. They usually give you 50kmpl(Its Kilometers/liter) easily as opposed to 10kmpl of the car, and 10 miles in a 150cc motorbike is actually not tiring and it won't really make you sweat bad. They cost 1000$. Other than that there is always the option of electric bike which you can charge in office.
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I stay in India. Most Telcos here use VOIP backend for call transmission. i.e. when you make a long distance call, they charge you extra over a local call, even though it costs them the same. with competition getting stronger, hopefully this nonsense will be a thing of the past.
I bet the "check" you will send him will be for 500,000$ In ROFW its called "Bill" :)
There was a study which said that Cancer will be disease of the future. Not because we are doing something to encourage cancer, but because other causes are being defeated. In olden times people used to die of typhoid, cholera etc., at a younger age. Cancer rarely got a foothold. Now with people living to 70s or 80s easily diseases like cancer are becoming more noticeable.
Who cares even if you shoot 90% of your spammers. What matters is that your country contributes more spam than China and Russia, yet you think banning Russia and china will solve spam problem. you related to Bushie darling?
There are 2 type of people posting on this thread. One type is who are against people buying Fuel guzzlers when they don't need them. The other type are those who just have an agenda against any vehicle thats not a sedan/hatch/minivan. You belong to second category. for example CRV. It gives 23mpg as compared to honda accord which gives 24mpg. In all respects its a very good handling safe vehicle with crumple zones and ample safety. But still you label the owner as trying to prove something. By your logic anybody who buys a good looking/butch looking/non VW beetle looking vehicle is trying to compensate for something/trying to tackle midlife crisis guy. Thats not the case. The problem is that America still buys a lot of "I am a truck but I will call myself a SUV" vehicles. There are lot of monoque chasis construction all time AWD crossovers which are good looking, offer a higher seating position, handle well, and give good gas mileage(Atleast better than minivans)
Sure get a 1500cc motorbike(1500cc is what car engines are) you get high Fuel consumption. A 200cc bike can easily do 40kmpl in normal conditions(urban city mix) a 125cc bike can do 70-80kmpl with ease. I used to drive a 150cc bike which gave me 55-60kmpl and I often used to go at 60 miles/hour.
Even in a country like India, which has really shoddy tax structure for things electrical and electronic, an electric scooter costs less than 800$. http://www.induselectrans.com/ I suspect with tax breaks, such a bike would cost only 500$ in the US, all inclusive! Of course you can't pedal some of the versions
The best way to not leak memory is to never allocate it in the first place. The best way to avoid overflowing raw buffers is to not use raw buffers. Use the containers. When you think you can't, think harder.
I have a better way. Do not write any code. This will ensure that no memory, disk space or processor cycles are wastedI am sure they used Sperm Whales
When I went to see Yosemite, and had just a day(half actually), I could not figure out in what sequence to follow so that I see most of the spots. such a application for google maps will be just great!
A new study has been released proving that the fireball event in the server room was caused by slashdot and not an asteroid
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I count myself to be fortunate in a job where I don't have to slog 60-80 hours a week. But many people are not that lucky. "Take another job". Very easy to say. Do you even realize that almost everywhere in the software field the engineers are "expected" to put in 60 hours or more a week. In some good companies, at the end of the project you are allowed to take couple of weeks paid vacation, but its rare. Not everybody has the luxury to walk out, and money does not grow on trees. People don't like to be exploited, its just that sometimes there is not much choice. You always have a choice, but sometimes its the devil or the deep sea, or Out of the frying pan into the fire.
It was also discovered at 15 year olds love 18+ rated movies!
This kind of piracy is so common, that most people who go to small time assemblers expect windows XP or even Vista for free. If M$ starts cracking down people are not going to pay something like 200$. Its like somebody asking for half of your months salary! Many people who are getting computers nowadays get them on installments and earn around Rs.20,000-30000/month. So asking them to pay 8000 for software means they go elsewhere. M$ got so popular in India just because windows was "free". Free as in beer.
India is a very very corrupt country, with more than half the money going to politicians pockets, and not to mention pilferage by govt. officers. Inspite of that the Indian Railway system carries millions of people each day, and makes a profit too.
Its not a question of "making profit difficult". Its more a case of "Lack of will" in the US
It was Furadentin. Don't remember the spelling. What I have listed is how it was pronounced. The salt is Nitrofurans IIRC
I guess this will not receive any help from Pharma companies.
Reason, low amount of money.
I have personally seen this happening in case of another drug.
Once after a culture report we found that the only drug which would deactivate this bacteria was the cheapest antibiotic available in the market (1rs/tablet in India, or 1p in US$ amount).
But very few chemists stock it.
Why? doctors don't recommend it. It also can take care of many bacteria for which there are much more expensive antibiotics available and only those get prescribed.
Had to literally scout the whole city to get the medicine.
Low profit margins? Nobody is interested, this is the state of the drug industry today, and it is a sad state. So if somebody developed a cheap "open source" drug which will take of most bacterial infections, nobody will be interested, however, if the same drug is so expensive that you can't afford it without insurance, it will get backing, no matter how lousy it is.
An accident already happened, in the server room. Service Unavailable
Jim Allchin, is that you?! Never knew you hung out here too
Let me tell a fact.
Climate change is not due to us, its due to Sun getting hotter.
Its proved and the ultimate truth.
Happy now?
So what does it change?
Does it change that the earth is getting warmer? No
Does it change that sea levels will rise? No
Does it change that polar ice caps will melt disrupting global weather patterns? No
Does it change this can lead to drastic impact on world food production? No
Your attitude is like - Diseases are not man made, so don't take antibiotics.
If it was calculated that an asteroid will strike earth after 10 years and cause mass extinction, would you want everyone to sit on it because its not man made?
Grow up. The problem is the concern part. Who caused it will will decide later. So if there is something Humans can do to offset nature, its better to do it before its too late. Nature being the cause won't change the fact that the global climate change is not good for us.