Hi. Thank you for taking all the things I said out of context. I am going to try my best to do the same despite the fact that I believe this is what HN is trying to avoid, moderator.
> My trivial point was that your claim about the down votes was contradicted in the first sentences. It seems you missed that, too.
I am sorry you think your thoughts are trivial and despite your grammatical errors I would love to know how a first sentence can be plural. I have no doubt that I missed a lot things prior. That was my entire point of my following posts. Maybe if I knew which first sentence you were referring to I could have a better response.
> Quite fun to do personal attacks like that after such creative way of misreading.
There were no personal attacks in the previous posts unless of course you are Perl. In this post maybe there are many only because you made it so.
And I would appreciate if you read this small thread, moderator, and came back with an intelligent reply.
Yes I could have not been a dick on this but you reap what you sow.
> Are you really surprised about the down votes...?
For that post of course not. For the others yes.
I can only assume you are coming from this viewpoint
"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."
and no I don't think I had anything genuinely new to bring but I how could I know about something I didn't know about.
I guess what I am really saying if people can't acknowledge the flaws in a thing how could they ever make it better. And to say even more if they can't vocalize their reasoning how does downvoting make it okay but I am sure that is another thing I have missed.
To be fair I didn't think I was trolling but I can completely understand why you think I was. I could only talk about things I as knew them to be. Whether that makes me an ass or an idiot I don't care. I did want to hear a good argument as why I was wrong and again I appreciate your reply.
EDIT: My original comment was really just meant to be humorous I am sure know why since you are aware of Perl's syntax. It did make me a lot of money at a time but nevertheless I stand by what I said as that is the best advice I could give myself right now.
Thank you for the excellent reply. That was response I was hoping for. I don't know everything and I appreciate you talking on point and not just pressing the down arrow because someone said something you don't like.
Oh my apologies I wasn't trying to convince anyone of anything if that's what you are thinking. I was only stating fact based on my experience but that's okay just downvote this and make yourself right.
Thank you I did read the post. Python has pypi. Ruby has gems. I'm not going to google the rest but if they don't have one there is no reason why they can't.
And FYI pypi is better than CPAN so all the other stuff in the that post is crap imho. I was a Perl dev for ~10 years. Now have about 5 worth of Python. So thank you.
Oh my why would anyone want to lean Perl anymore? Unless you are working with a legacy codebase learn Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Erlang, Scala, Haskell... in other words run the f away from Perl if you can unless you are into S&M.
I wrote a Pandora clone using django and last.fm for recommendations. Because of the licensing issues I plan on open sourcing it on github in the near or distant future.
InnoDB. I understand your support viewpoint but both of those dbs are opensource thereby leaving support open. From what I understand when the support comes into play is when you can sue the other party for not providing the service expected but there is company support for mysql and postgres so that still leaves me in the dark and I have never experienced corruption issues with either. Though my db experience is limited and I don't claim to be an expert.
Can anyone say when Oracle is justified? I have yet to encounter a problem the postgres or mysql didn't support but alas I have not worked on everything.
They should be if they are payed for by public funds the same applies to software. Of course that doesn't apply to defense or otherwise potentially dangerous software but the general rule should be to opensource government contracted development because if they don't have a good reason for not doing so they are probably doing it wrong.
I'm afraid there is no jump. If the US defaults interest rates will rise but they can't as the market is dependant on cheap money. That why interest rates have been at 0% for a long as long as I can remember and it is also why QE1 and QE2 were done. To increase the supply of cheap money. If the US defaults the dollar will crash. Look at what happened to Argentina in the late 90s. No I don't think the chances are very significant now but the conditions are certainly there for it to happen. I'm sure a whole paper could be written on this but I am only trying explain where I am coming from.
What's even more ridiculous is that they did it even though there is now a competitor with a better product. Yes they have a much larger installed base but I do believe G+'s non 140 char limit and other amenities will win out.
Wow I never looked at it like that before. Of course if the currency collapses the companies operating in it are f'd. We need to resolve the housing foreclosure mess and stop accruing debt.
Well there are 7 levels of A rating. The US certainly doesn't deserve to the top most tier since there is active discussion of default. No I don't think it actually would but what is the point of these ratings if they are being used like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boh92DrYEWs