Re:Yes, Perl is indeed dead and rotting
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Same here. I am a freelance Perl programmer and for the past 12+ months have been very busy with coding in... Perl. More so than when Perl was considered the "glue that holds the web together". And no, it isn't maintenance of old code.
A number of people who left Perl and declared it dead are the ones that couldn't program in Perl to begin with (never learnt the language, thought it could be learned by trial and error), and most likely still can't in whatever they consider fashionable right now.
My disaster plan is keeping track of each apt-get install xxxxx and write down how I configured what I installed afterwards. And then there are still surprises, like how Apache changed its defaults going to 2.4 (IIRC). It's a lot more work compared to install new version and rsync -avh from backup, but all those notes I keep come in handy when I have to install something for a customer in a VM, etc.
Ah, yeah, should. In my experience the safe way, however, is to have taken notes during the previous install, doing a fresh install, and install and configure everything using those aforementioned notes (which now and then requires some research to get it right due to changes, and hence updating notes). Of course photos, movies, music, etc. can be safely restored from backup.
A 3 year old can build a LEGO car following instructions in a booklet. An older child can cook something using a recipe. Both are examples of non-code representations of algorithms.
I welcome new languages as well, but so many new ones are just rehashes of old ones with some shiny things added. And those shiny things get severe dents when the language matures to version 7 point something.
Heh, I really don't see the problem of Unity. I've installed cairo-dock and made the unity side panel gizmo autohide. And yes, that side panel is as badly designed as can be (e.g. mount an external disk with 6 partitions and let the hunt & peck begin). But (!) most of the day I hang out in Emacs, so I wouldn't even notice if purple elves where dancing on it, naked. Only once in a while tapping Alt makes the search show up. Probably can be disabled, but it happens rarely and I already hit Esc automatically when it happens.
Thanks, will give it a try next week. I am going to install the Firefox update that came available just now. When I had just installed 14.04 even just logging in resulted in three requests for reporting a crash and this went over time with the (nearly daily) updates. I am a very long time Firefox user (from before it was called that) and it takes more than a crash a day to keep me away from it, especially since all open tabs are restored. But I do think that the UI changes/eye candy and new features should drop to the bottom of the priority list and for at least a year the bugs that crash Firefox should given the utmost priority. A code review and clean up might be a good idea as well.
No, I haven't. I have Tree Style Tab and just a few days ago I installed Easy Copy. The other 4 are Ubuntu related (2x Ubuntu, 2x Unity). Also no Flash (yet).
It wouldn't surprise me if this is somehow a Ubuntu 14.04 thing. I used Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04 until very recent and if it crashed it was most of the time (maybe even each time) Flash related. On 14.04 Firefox crashes about once a day. Sometimes out of the blue (i.e. editing in Emacs, or when I move the mouse to wake up the monitor).
I've read some of the bug reports associated with the crashes I have, and some are marked as being in the top n of crashes (see my earlier post). So (to me) they seem to be genuine crashes, which maybe show up more often on Ubuntu 14.04. Aside: Ubuntu 14.04 has plenty of stability issues of its own; several crash reports/day. And no, I don't think the hardware I use suddenly went bad after I installed 14.04. And since I am paranoid I did run memtest for hours.
*Sigh* what's with this blame the add-on stuff? I see it in each and every "Firefox crashes" discussion. Until recently I used Firefox (can't recall which version, the latest supported) on Ubuntu 10.04. Crashes were rare and mostly related to Flash content. Now I am on Ubuntu 14.04 and Firefox crashes several times a day. Often randomly, like when I am editing code in Emacs. Or when I have been away from the computer for a while and I move my mouse to wake up the monitor.
Some clicking on about:crashes links gives the following:
So, yeah, there's plenty of work to do. Would be nice if this stuff gets a higher priority and let the eye candy / let's make it look like Chrome even more rest for a year... or two.
"Hewlett and Turon were even more shocked when their first random guess at the six-digit password worked. "
Maybe you should start reading, you might become a real 733+ hacker;-)
Example of a floating ad on slashdot: http://toxicice.com/images/sla...
What's the point of being allowed to disable ads and still getting this crap? IIIRC it started to show up last week. At first I just got an empty rectangle (Flash content?) but now it "works". Very clever, this will just move more people to adblock et al.
"f you knocked on an aluminum frame with your fingernail enough times in the same spot, it would eventually fail."
In short, keep it away from Sheldon...
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Same here. I am a freelance Perl programmer and for the past 12+ months have been very busy with coding in ... Perl. More so than when Perl was considered the "glue that holds the web together". And no, it isn't maintenance of old code.
A number of people who left Perl and declared it dead are the ones that couldn't program in Perl to begin with (never learnt the language, thought it could be learned by trial and error), and most likely still can't in whatever they consider fashionable right now.
My disaster plan is keeping track of each apt-get install xxxxx and write down how I configured what I installed afterwards. And then there are still surprises, like how Apache changed its defaults going to 2.4 (IIRC). It's a lot more work compared to install new version and rsync -avh from backup, but all those notes I keep come in handy when I have to install something for a customer in a VM, etc.
Ah, yeah, should. In my experience the safe way, however, is to have taken notes during the previous install, doing a fresh install, and install and configure everything using those aforementioned notes (which now and then requires some research to get it right due to changes, and hence updating notes). Of course photos, movies, music, etc. can be safely restored from backup.
More like alphas. At least at the desktop.
A 3 year old can build a LEGO car following instructions in a booklet. An older child can cook something using a recipe. Both are examples of non-code representations of algorithms.
Still sounds like too much effort for too little profit. YMMV, of course.
And you would all do that for just a buck?
Best joke posted to Slashdot this month, thank you!
Thanks, for the clear explanation. It's extremely confusing to put it nicely.
"Free full text" but no link to download the PDF (at least, I don't see it). PDF: http://psych.mcmaster.ca/maure...
I welcome new languages as well, but so many new ones are just rehashes of old ones with some shiny things added. And those shiny things get severe dents when the language matures to version 7 point something.
Heh, I really don't see the problem of Unity. I've installed cairo-dock and made the unity side panel gizmo autohide. And yes, that side panel is as badly designed as can be (e.g. mount an external disk with 6 partitions and let the hunt & peck begin). But (!) most of the day I hang out in Emacs, so I wouldn't even notice if purple elves where dancing on it, naked. Only once in a while tapping Alt makes the search show up. Probably can be disabled, but it happens rarely and I already hit Esc automatically when it happens.
Thanks, will give it a try next week. I am going to install the Firefox update that came available just now. When I had just installed 14.04 even just logging in resulted in three requests for reporting a crash and this went over time with the (nearly daily) updates. I am a very long time Firefox user (from before it was called that) and it takes more than a crash a day to keep me away from it, especially since all open tabs are restored. But I do think that the UI changes/eye candy and new features should drop to the bottom of the priority list and for at least a year the bugs that crash Firefox should given the utmost priority. A code review and clean up might be a good idea as well.
No, I haven't. I have Tree Style Tab and just a few days ago I installed Easy Copy. The other 4 are Ubuntu related (2x Ubuntu, 2x Unity). Also no Flash (yet).
It wouldn't surprise me if this is somehow a Ubuntu 14.04 thing. I used Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04 until very recent and if it crashed it was most of the time (maybe even each time) Flash related. On 14.04 Firefox crashes about once a day. Sometimes out of the blue (i.e. editing in Emacs, or when I move the mouse to wake up the monitor).
I've read some of the bug reports associated with the crashes I have, and some are marked as being in the top n of crashes (see my earlier post). So (to me) they seem to be genuine crashes, which maybe show up more often on Ubuntu 14.04. Aside: Ubuntu 14.04 has plenty of stability issues of its own; several crash reports/day. And no, I don't think the hardware I use suddenly went bad after I installed 14.04. And since I am paranoid I did run memtest for hours.
Note that I can not always be bothered to actually submit the crashes. Some of those crashes are marked as "top crashes", see also my earlier post.
More like 0.93 alpha, based on the daily crashes I see. See my other post in case you want to post "It's the add-ons!".
*Sigh* what's with this blame the add-on stuff? I see it in each and every "Firefox crashes" discussion. Until recently I used Firefox (can't recall which version, the latest supported) on Ubuntu 10.04. Crashes were rare and mostly related to Flash content. Now I am on Ubuntu 14.04 and Firefox crashes several times a day. Often randomly, like when I am editing code in Emacs. Or when I have been away from the computer for a while and I move my mouse to wake up the monitor.
Some clicking on about:crashes links gives the following:
So, yeah, there's plenty of work to do. Would be nice if this stuff gets a higher priority and let the eye candy / let's make it look like Chrome even more rest for a year... or two.
"Hewlett and Turon were even more shocked when their first random guess at the six-digit password worked. " Maybe you should start reading, you might become a real 733+ hacker ;-)
Example of a floating ad on slashdot: http://toxicice.com/images/sla... What's the point of being allowed to disable ads and still getting this crap? IIIRC it started to show up last week. At first I just got an empty rectangle (Flash content?) but now it "works". Very clever, this will just move more people to adblock et al.
You can read documentation etc. online: https://developer.apple.com/li... via https://developer.apple.com/sw...
Yawn: https://developer.apple.com/li...
+1 Indeed, some tea bags seem to be stuffed with grass clippings.
Maybe, but don't forget about the loads of sugar that has been added to all kinds of food, even tea bags!
A year? I think http://norvig.com/21-days.html is a very good read.
"f you knocked on an aluminum frame with your fingernail enough times in the same spot, it would eventually fail." In short, keep it away from Sheldon...