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Curious. What's your opinion of Perl?

We bash Ruby because we love it so.

All of the above = a huge bag of hurt that presents some damn near insurmountable problems (leadership, on its own, is a huge issue). To be honest, I don't know how one would get p…

cough Parrot! cough But seriously, anyone know if Parrot is a realistic vehicle for this? It's just puzzling to me that with all the demand for a better interpreter, there really a…

cough FreeBSD! cough

So, like, a free market of free markets?

What comes after fascism?

Well done! Thank you!

I have to second the headphones idea. And if you don't think you like techno or trance music, you might change your mind after you code while listening to it (which is about the on…

Also, you have transparency in what you are running, which is important from a rights perspective.

Ok, awesome. And that's the same story as RubyGems. I've noticed that Python peeps are pretty big on "show me the code" anyway, but I think a lot of untapped potential is lost by n…

I really like Python, but it doesn't have an equivalent to CPAN or RubyGems. I'm actually quite puzzled by this.

I don't think Blue Ocean strategy is foremost about convincing people that only you have the right solution, but rather that you are an 'alternative' solution. You might not be the…

BTW, 'cheat' is pretty sweet. Console hackers should try it. http://cheat.errtheblog.com/

A good point. But, Forbes never should have published this article anytime after 1999. The idea of "Four Tens" and "Power Shifts" (as they call it in business-speak) is not a new i…

This article starts off assuming that a four-day workweek entails cramming the usual 40 hour workweek into 4 days instead of 5. I stopped reading right there, because the idea of "…

Agreed. Plus, I've found the crescent wrench and bicycle maintenance manual to be a bit superfluous for my needs.

Links?

Unix pipes, cron, ssh, VNC and IRC. Oh, and CPAN. A Slashdotter once posted an insightful comment about cron being the 'height of computing': http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?…