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Many of the same advantages hold for any other language's frameworks, with the added benefit of using any other language.

Perl is valid if you know it and want to use it. Otherwise, not really. There is a port of mechanize to Python as well, if that is your main reason to use Perl. Whatever you can do…

I would really like to hear from more people who use Circus in production. It seems interesting.

I have never had the slightest indication that anyone actually looked at my Github account listed at the top of the resume, let alone that this ever helped me get any job I've had.…

Happens all the time, e.g. with postings for positions that are really intended to be filled internally, or with perpetual postings which do nothing but solicit people to go into a…

Assuming that Minix adopted a reasonable license and fixed outstanding issues that make Linux currently better, I'm asking you to tell me what's wrong with that. We have a de facto…

So much the worse for using Android. It's past time that we have proper Linux on phones without interposing all the Google-Java stuff.

They have openly discussed their intention to build an X-compatible layer on top of Wayland for remote windows for years, it is really sad that FUD has prevailed about how they wan…

A Linux monoculture is never going to happen. But what would actually be wrong with it?

I think success is mentioned because of all the people who have begun to enter the industry just to cash in somehow.

They didn't get rich programming, not at all. They got rich owning successful companies. The fact that they did some of the programming for some MVP or other is almost incidental. …

What happens to the X windows forwarded over ssh when the connection drops? Can you reattach afterwards?

They were the major ones touting Wayland for a while, it seems unlikely that they "haven't investigated".

Nothing has actually happened yet.

What do you usually do with these fail2ban notifications?

As English, this stuff is totally incomprehensible and unusable. Absolutely nothing is conveyed to actual human English speakers by saying the word 'buffalo' 400 times in a row. If…

Do you have any information to indicate that this kind of cognitive interference is due to glucose depletion?

Corollary: CS doesn't need to be a science

Anything involved with what? What kind of specific task do you actually mean by 'involved'? If you don't mind leaving Python's advantages on the table then use C in good health. Od…

But these are not randomly selected questions. To illustrate, consider if someone posted a story asking whether Jews were genetically disposed to be greedy. This could be dressed u…

One of the implications of this "question" relies on the common belief that gay men are pedophiles and/or will teach gay sex to the children. In some people's heads, it's a matter …

Supposing that people are recruited into homosexuality by gay parents is not precisely described as "open-minded curiosity". If we are going to be open-mindedly curious, then let's…

Pleas are actually very common. If he refused, then there would be people posting on how admirable it was that he stuck to his guns.