Well, isn't that just disgraceful. No wonder George Costanza was a half-assing burnout...
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Is it also true that there is no minimum amount of annual leave allowance in the US? You have to negotiate it?
edit Not to suggest Ireland is ahead of the curve here, paternity leave does not exist whereas it would in, say, Sweden.
Probably more interesting to investors than developers.
FUSE is a natural choice if you want fully integrated and transparent access to so-called "cloud storage" services. Performance overhead isn't so much of an issue, you'll probably manage to max out most home broadband services even with the several layers of syscalls.
You'll have less to remember, throw a line in fstab (or mount it in your shell's rc) and it's all just there, no sync commands to remember, just grab your favourite application and start hammering away at your files.
COBOL attempts this (the syntax is even written out in "sentences") and it suffers for it. Even if it wasn't a futile effort, is it worthwhile?
edit This post is not intended to suggest the language in the topic article in not worthwhile..
Friend of mine told me about that, my first thought was the situation with Internet Explorer in South Korea...
My HP JetDirect print server also uses a small mass of applets to perform advanced functions like setting an IP or finding out if the printer is online.
That's not what was said. They don't maintain it.
Also, it slowed site scrolling to a crawl on this reasonably beefy desktop machine.
I hadn't heard of anything like it at the time, it was an intriguing idea - I wasn't even sure Stephenson hadn't made the whole thing up.
Perl's strings look pretty much the same as everyone else's strings.
Clearly this regex is impractical, but any validation you invent yourself is likely incorrect. The best way to validate email addresses remains sending an email to them.
Next you'll be looking for specifications and time to do the work properly.
Hey, that must be true of Perl too! :)
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
(Requires Java plugin)
I enjoyed this series of articles published some years ago making the case that many of the useful design patterns are built into Perl already:
http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/06/13/design1.html
http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/08/07/design2.html
http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/08/15/design3.html
The take-away point being "If a pattern is really valuable, then it should be part of the core language". Perl, of course, has very strong functional features, as described in Higher Order Perl:
Are you talking about IPSec? This is still optional in IPv6 and available using IPv4.
I think the reason adoption is slow is that it's not easy to convince managers to allocate people and time to it... "So, it's not yet broken but you want to fix it?"
Search sorted by points?
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
My own experience with editing windows is that I'll need different dimensions for different tasks. While a vim-plugin or such that did dynamic pane resizing might be useful I don't think the fundamentally aesthetic concern behind the golden-ratio cult adds anything to this.
Nice idea. I tend not to use the mouse a whole lot once the 'reply' link has been clicked, have you had any complaints of legitimate posts being lost?
I'm wondering if adding a check for key down/up events would mitigate this potential issue since a spam bot is not likely to generate those either.
There is a ZX81-based web server public on the web, I won't link it here for obvious reasons. (Search for "Siggis ZX81 web server" if you really wish to see it.)
Excuse me?
Perl is doing just fine.
The Python community doesn't really need a whipping boy, does it? It was quite offputting to me when Python texts, when promoting the features of the language, were essentially reduced to "It's more readable than Perl!"
Is it as powerful and expressive as Perl or is anything sacrificed for this supposed readability? (I never saw it myself).
Since PRNewswire/Sustainable Food Trust didn't seem to employ a critical eye to examine the conclusions of the study.
edit Further criticism of the design of the experiment and the statistics: http://understandinguncertainty.org/rats-and-gm
I thought I knew, but it turns out the flexibility (hours, teleworking) I had in $previous_gig was something I took for granted.
I enjoy the work I do now, but it can be stressful trying to code in an open plan office which also hosts other business concerns (communications, NOC...)
edit People I work with read HN. Hello there. You know my feelings already ;)
I think it was Killzone on PS2, but can't be certain.
I'm still not sure which approach I prefer, but having been thwarted by zealous validation in the past I lean towards this double-check-on-weird-shit-then-send-mail system.
I will never have enough domain specific knowledge to reject a given email address with absolute certainty. That is how much fun that RFC is.
Everybody needs you, low maintenance + reasonable income space on the Monopoly board.