grout | 13 years ago | on: What We Should Have Said To PG
Rule of thumb: If any part of your pitch sounds like Microsoft marketing, you're not ready.
grout's comments
grout | 13 years ago | on: The Codeless Code - Tales to make wiser programmers.
"Satisfactory."
grout | 13 years ago | on: Diablo 3 Job Interview for Programmers
Fuck Diablo. My interview will be in Alpha Centauri.
grout | 13 years ago | on: Docopt creates beautiful command-line interfaces
Perl has this: https://metacpan.org/module/Getopt::Declare
grout | 13 years ago | on: Musl libc
AVR-targeted gcc has an __int24 type. Not a power of two.
grout | 13 years ago | on: Why I Use Perl: Reliability
The readability arguments need to include such modules as Method::Signatures::Simple, which replaces the old manual method (no pun intended) with:
method foo ($a, $b) {
$self->blargh($a + $b);
}grout | 14 years ago | on: Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests
"using rhetorical force to invalidate contrary views"
Thank you for epitomizing what makes Linus worth emulating.
Rhetorical force. Coooool.
grout | 14 years ago | on: Looking At The World Through Twitter Data
http://topsy.com/ yeah. we do that.
grout | 14 years ago | on: Functional Programming in C++
A lot. Ignore comments to the contrary.
grout | 14 years ago | on: Why one company is making all its employees learn how to code
Based on that picture, I pity the employees.
grout | 14 years ago | on: Yesod 1.0 - a robust, friendly, high performance web framework for Haskell
Doesn't build with the gold linker. Feh.
grout | 14 years ago | on: A Forth Story...
Forth's necessity of carrying the stack in short-term memory while coding and debugging has seemed to me its deepest flaw as a tool for mortals.
grout | 14 years ago | on: Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend
Mythical Man Month and Silver Bullet essay ought to be mandatory. K&R as well, and Stroustrup (both C++PL and Design and Evolution of C++).
Programmers don't stand on each others' shoulders, but each others' feet.
grout | 14 years ago | on: Tell Everyone About Your Business Idea - Don't Keep It A Secret
Beware the naked man who offers you his shirt.
grout | 14 years ago | on: OpenSSL’s tools don’t support IPv6, patches unmerged without reason for 5 years
OpenSSL's command line tools are so antequated and annoying that I can't help thinking that they're being held back by the Powers That Be so as to discourage casual crypto.
grout | 14 years ago | on: Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
It is fun watching kids rediscover the wheel.
grout | 14 years ago | on: .NET: So long and thanks for all the fish
sigh Scientists stand on the shoulders of giants; programmers stand on each others' feet.
grout | 14 years ago | on: Why I Left Perl
The only valid reasons to "leave" Perl apply equally to Python. Sorry, but it's true.
Compilers are good enough for type systems to be advantages, now.
grout | 14 years ago | on: The story of MS Visual Studio C99 support (or why we can't have nice things)
Microsoft wants to kill C. I don't know why.
grout | 14 years ago | on: Perl: When DWIM Doesn't
You're funny. If this really pushed you over the edge, you were born -on- the edge, and didn't give Perl a fair shake.
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