Viewing profile — kentnl

Posted - January 13, 2011 Marked Dead - April 22, 2011 Today - Aug 5, 2014

Yeah, being eVIl, they probably use Vi.

That's still partially rubbish, because you don't build technology on top of a fax machine. Many of the technologies at the higher level are directly written in C, and its going to…

Without a testing infrastructure, you pretty much rely on programmers having code doing what they say it does, instead of having proof it does what they say it does. Given human pe…

It depends which graphs you look at: These graphs tell me 1. Perl is slightly faster. 2. Perl uses much less memory on average 3. Perl uses less code. http://shootout.alioth.debian…

Probably a good reason to use Perl too, finding a machine without it is hard. =)

Because sometimes objects are the right answer, and when they are the right answer, you want to be maximally equipped to use them as easy as possible. Perl doesn't bash you over th…

Tests. Integrated Bug Tracking. There's 2 reasons.

You haven't really started using Ruby till you start trying to JAPH and golf it. Fortunately, that phase will pass and you'll return to writing maintainable code =). >> "The idea o…

Nice idea, but what tends to happen is this: -- User1235 has joined #perl -- user1235> PERL SUCKS 111!!!11!!1!!11!! -- Chanserv set mode +o mst -- -- user1235 was kicked ( troll ) …

Protip: you'll get more people interested in you if you spell it Perl instead of PERL. Despite appearances, 'Perl' is not an acronym, there are backronyms for it, but that doesn't …

Pointer Syntax? What? I'm not trying to be an ass here, but I'm confused as how you could have a decade of Perl use up your sleeve and not realise Perl has no pointers. It has refe…

If you'd only seen PHP a few times, applying for a job in it may not be the brightest idea. ( If you have enough experience you could probably do a reasonably good bluff and learn-…

Hey, wasn't that the year the economy started to go south? .... Obviously, people stopped employing people in Perl, and the economy took a steep dive because of it!. Use Perl! Save…

I see limited use for a digital toaster, there are some perks you /could/ see like having personalized settings which somehow just know which person is using them ( RFID? ) and set…

Obviously, the VCR your ${parent} keeps asking you to program for them was purchased because it was more complicated, and that silly microwave they have with a big sign on the powe…

ALL Hail the indestructible clone phone. http://www.envirofone.com/Nokia/3315/details.aspx I owned 2 of these, but sadly, both died the same way.. weird software error "CONTACT SER…

Generally, when somebody says "Hi", my reaction is "Oh dear, here comes the dumb question" and I cringe. 9/10 Times I'm right. Generally I tend to /join and then just sit there for…

Multiplexing is multiplexing. That is, encoding multiple data streams across one channel. In our case, thats having a singular SSH connection from a to b, but having multiple strea…

How did I manage to be such an idiot last year?, and how can I not be such an idiot this year?

It depends. Where do you live? Who are your clients? How complex are the projects? How big is the company? How many other staff are there?

Fortran! Our salvation!.

That's nice. Welcome to the internet.

+1 just for the multiplex magic, But then, I /would/ say that =) That TTL thing is handy too, I'm sure I had some understanding of it previously, but reading the article made me ch…

The "its easy to get it on a webhost" is one I'll give you, its not really even arguable. Sadly this is one of those annoying chicken-egg issues I try rally against. Lots of webhos…