arc_of_descent

Incorrect for a picture of my mother who's 62. It guessed 34. And the picture is of decent quality.

Check outworlder's post for the xkcd link, you petty graphic artists!

The colors you observe are just models of the different frequencies which our brain has evolved into to label as "red", "violet", or "#782". :)

A much less/more evolved brain (be it alien or terrestrial) will observer it much differently.

Sorry to bring biology into this :)

Especially with learning a Lisp language, you can be really frustrated by having to read so much before you can actually create something.

But slowly and surely I'm learning. I just re-read the chapter(s) I don't understand over and over again.

So my advice is don't try to skim over a whole book. Try reading as slow as possible, and if you don't understand something, take a break and then get back to that same shit once more. And of course, write some code as soon as possible.

Do try the barefoot walking technique. Its really worked well for me.

I'm currently learning Python and I did the Letter Frequency problem and I'm now working on the Bulls & Cow problem. I highly recommend you visit the website and pick a random task(s) and solve it using code.

I spend huge amounts of my time watching movies, doing things absolutely not related to my personal career ambitions, and yes I do feel guilty. But as this thread mentions, we are human, and the feelings pass away in time.

I've learned that one hour of focused productivity is worth 10 hours of "doing stuff" which you think will make you a better programmer.

[$x => $y] creates an array reference. => is just a fancy syntax for a comma. So its actually [$x, $y].

[$x => $y]-> dereferences the array ref.

$x <= $y is a boolean expression which return 0 or 1. Accordingly the array index is chosen.

Sorry if I'm unable to explain properly! Here's a script.

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    use strict; 
    use warnings;

    my $x = 8;
    my $y = 9;

    print [ $x => $y ]->[ $x <= $y ];

Then unfortunately I had to become more professional and started using my real name. :)

My main job currently involves maintaining and developing a huge code base in Perl including three websites (soon to expand to much more). Perl just works. I thoroughly enjoy coding in it. I've not spent too much time optimizing and testing code though. mod_perl is pretty fast in itself (using Apache).

That being said Perl certainly lacks the in-built features which would make meta programming a quick and easy job. Yes, I still have to start using Moose. Perhaps in 2014!

Happy 26th Birthday Perl! Without you, I wouldn't have a job!

I remember reading an article saying that in an electrical circuit it is not the electrons that are moving, but the energy. The electrons are just the medium.