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I said reduce. Why would I want a Google login tracking me about the place?

"Every good scientist is half B. F. Skinner and half P. T. Barnum"

I've seen Warwick speak. He's not afraid to throw science away completely in favour of making a dramatic point.

I remember him claiming his flesh "embraced" an implant by growing around it when he described the typical immune rejection response he experienced.

I already have probably hundreds of registrations on sites I cannot be certain about the security of.

I would like to reduce that number.

If you take the time to learn the language, it's quite readable.

I used to know a guy who'd freak out about not being able to read Perl. He couldn't write ("speak") it either, so I'm not sure what he was expecting.

> stored as a char(6)

Try PIC X(6).

I own Grado this and Sennheiser that, even a decent pair of JVC the other, but one of my favourite, best sounding and most comfortable sets is my Superlux HD681s. €20.

I believe they use the same drivers (and superficial design) as AKG K240s.

In this case, they passed the tests reasonably well I think. Great frequency response (cut in at the limits of my hearing), no rattle, all the rest... I might put together a few sets for this test, though I suspect the Grados will fail rattle :)

Hetzner Robot is 32 IIRC.

Disappointing.

I get that, but Pulseaudio has also ruined my day more times than ALSA has... so as far as my specific requirements go, I'm not sure what exactly it's supposed to achieve. It's just sort of foisted on me if I pick the wrong distro.

Currently, OSS compatible APIs are what you have on (*nix && !Linux).

ALSA is monstrous to configure, but capable.

JACK serves a very specific purpose for music production.

I'm still not sure what pulseaudio is for, but I don't think I'm the target audience for it.

Point is, they don't exist contrary to each other, but in parallel and often in concert.

> Seriously Clever for A 10 year old book on perl basics is probably pushing it.

Why is the age of this book relevant? It's not an overview of the basics. it's a 500+ page exploration of Perl's functional programming features, a topic rarely (if ever) covered in this depth.

I would look at Modern Perl before Perl Best Practices. While Perl::Critic bases much of its criticism on PBP, quite a bit of it turned out to be not so useful.

Well, the Guy is pretty clever. I think, given the tools, he could produce high quality work.

http://hop.perl.plover.com/ - seriously clever.

Probably an X crash.

I "seed" my game by mashing < ^ > keys for a few seconds, then play normally.

I might revert to mashing if I free up some space.

edit Though the game also appears to be broken. This is my single player strategy too :)

> "How many of them murdered even 10?"

Even that is extreme. How many committed acts of violence at all? How many are "three strikes" or prohibition victims?

> "A lot of people use AGILE to avoid planning at all"

Yup, I've seen this a lot.

In one instance "Agile" meant I could finish a major task using an unfamiliar language, framework and code base in short order.

Genuinely, the customer was told "Of course, fuzzix here is familiar with Agile processes so you should have this in 3 weeks".

edit of course this also meant there was no formal spec for the task, though I did have a photo of the whiteboard.

> "I actually want to have a good mental picture of what I'm doing before I start prototyping. And while I had a high-level notion of what I wanted, I didn't have enough of a idea of the details to really start coding."

This I like. The race away from the waterfall straw man has also stripped us of the advantages of BDUF.

While rigid phase-driven project management helps nobody, I think there's still room for speccing as much as we can upfront within iterative processes.

Or you could run to the IDE and start ramming design pattern boilerplate down its throat the second you're out of the first meeting ;)

Don't write about the owner's golf buddies either.

https://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/

An odd experience, I would say.

There's also the lack of information on which particular edition of an album you're getting.

If it's more than a couple of decades old, there have likely been a couple of terrible remasters in the mean time - probably easier to get your hands on too.

Have you seen Micro Men? Whimsical sort of film about the early days of Sinclair and Acorn, with some focus given to the race to manufacture the BBC's computer.

11 votes on a Saturday will do that.

I managed to get replacement motherboards for both under warranty, including engineer call out.

You'd almost think the virus shipped with the computer, the way they responded.

Thanks for reminding me of that one.

Some bogus design decisions by Packard Bell (no jumper/switch to lock out BIOS flash access) meant two of my machines were written off.

No, they weren't running pirated Windows, though I was on day 204 of my 31 day Paint Shop Pro evaluation.

> I have maintained 200k line Perl programs written by someone who never stopped to ponder anything outside the problem domain

Ditto, though I think I have a unique element to my story.

I spent a week deleting code I couldn't detect a use for. I nuked nearly 40,000 lines and could not discern a difference in functionality (though, couldn't be certain since I hadn't completed the test suite.)

Writing a test suite for software with no spec and only others' vague recollections of meetings to go on (Agile!) is fun - it basically ends up a regression suite enforcing current broken behaviour.

Perl takes no part of the blame for this, some of the Rails code needs to be seen to be believed - looked like an early PHP tutorial in places.

What was great was, the Perl was full of comments about how much easier it would have been in Ruby/Rails because he never bothered to read the docs on references.

Ah, thanks for the info, must check it out.

Aren't there licensing issues around the VST SDK which means LMMS rarely ships with VST functionality built in?

I tried building it with VST support once, not exactly seamless - not sure I ever got it to work.

> You are suggesting my culture is inferior to yours

I am doing no such thing. I am stating that any culture which discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation is broken. That includes my culture, your culture and many other cultures. Remember I said "Ireland is as backwards as anywhere else on the issue"?

> West vs. Russia

I'm a boat trip and a long walk away, not that far west.

> Right there, you violated a human right, freedom of religion

I did no such thing. Your rights end where mine begin. No matter how core it is to your religion, you may not injure or kill me.

> A while ago there was news about a couple in Germany who had sex on a parking lot near a supermarket, and who were arrested for that. Was that "repression"

Nobody is arguing for that, nobody wants to see you have sex. Maybe some day we'll be perfectly accepting of sex in public, but I feel you are trying to conflate different arguments.

I want the right for informed, consenting adults to be able to have sex in the privacy of their own homes should they so desire, and to not be cast as demons in the society they live in - this talk of corrupting youth is archaic garbage. Sure, your culture loves it, but that's because it has some growing up to do.

> "Remember, it's reasonable in your culture, not in mine."

It's not really, Ireland is as backwards as anywhere else on the issue.

> "My culture is not a communication problem"

Your culture is not an excuse for discrimination any more than it might be an excuse for enforced dress codes or genital mutilation. It's all disgraceful behaviour, no matter how you might like to dress it up as your culture or tradition (and therefore somehow deserving more respect).

"Tradition" and "culture" simply translate to "fear of change". If your culture is a culture of repression then no, I do not have to respect it.

> "If it's a personal preference, then this has to do with culture, not biology"

I didn't say personal preference, I said preference. It's not a choice you make, but it is an orientation. Why do you prefer members of the opposite sex? Did you choose this?

> "teaching 6 year olds about gay sex"

I doubt that actually ever happens.

> "For many Russians, teaching young children about gay sex is a problematic element, and I think you should respect their view when it comes to THEIR children"

So I should moderate my reasonable behaviour because you feel awkward explaining it to your kid? Your communication problems mean I shouldn't hold hands with or kiss someone of the same gender, in case they see it?