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> Teachers already work less during the year than other professionals Do you have any idea how much time teachers spend grading and preparing lessons after the school day ends? If …

If you want better teachers, you don't necessarily need to pay much more. What you need to do is make the job better, and you do that by working to remove the things that make teac…

Perl doesn't have one of these (afaict), perhaps because it would take up too many pages, but if you filter out just the Larry Wall quotes, you might get something close to this: h…

> "Reasonably confident" is a remarkably weak threshold for putting half of one's future wealth on the line. Half of your wealth is very very small compared to losing custody of yo…

Gitorious needs a "documentation" link on its front page leading to at least "overview" and "getting started" docs. Also, as an aside, Gitorious should consider switching to a new …

There are many decent programmers who've been using high-level languages like Perl/Python/Ruby/etc for so long that they don't even remember the last time they had to think about a…

> Then tell him your new hourly rate for consulting. Make it a good one. Note: search around here for tips on choosing a good rate. And then factor in your history with them.

Haven't yet used them, but these guys http://laclinux.com/gnu/Laptop sell and support Lenovo Thinkpads with GNU/Linux installed and swear by them.

I saw him speak a few years ago. The impressions I got were: * nice guy, but a bit awkward socially * very smart and good memory too * has written a lot of free software, and would…

I don't think HN's sarcasm tags are rendering correctly today.

> but I'm getting a Lisp vibe: clever people use it, they develop cool new things with it, but it doesn't attain market success (aka secret weapon). The difference is, (AFAICT) Per…

This is a great interview. I'm glad Damian took the time to answer those questions.

> Git and mercurial are not the end of the story. > I'm optimistic that, within another few years (give or take a decade), someone will come up with a VCS that's both powerful and …

How do you think the Bzr UI design compares with that of Hg?

Needs audio! But very cool indeed.

> and if I were to slap ads on it today I'd pull in a buck thirtyfive a day. Do you mean $1.35/day? If that's the case, then I see your point: even though you're passionate about i…

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Audrey.

Audrey, how do you think the combination of Rakudo and Parrot is coming along? Do you like the overall design of this Perl 6 implementation?

So, do you think the key to Perl 6's success is to avoid that? That is, do you think it's better for Perl 6 to have a smaller, more seasoned developer community in the beginning (t…