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I'm horrified and intrigued about "!perl Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked": http://ur1.ca/82lmh

chromatic Perl users

I wrote "my $num_points = @_;" at the start of a function, then changed it to "my $num_points = 0 + @_;" to avoid needing a comment. !perl

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Thank goodness for the least square fit.

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... all of which reinforces my opinion that, even considering npm, Node.js is like command-line PHP with actual users.

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Yesterday I forked Twitter's Bootstrap 2 locally. It's a good place to be from, but not to stay. http://ur1.ca/7zgcj

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Null Objects, Error Handling, and Robustness: http://ur1.ca/81fm4

chromatic Perl users

"But that’s how that distressingly many people think of !perl. They don’t even classify it as a programming language." http://ur1.ca/80cn5

chromatic Perl users

A Practical Use for Macros in !perl: http://ur1.ca/7zyks

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It's satisfying to refactor a step at a time when you *know* every step gets you closer to the right design and passes your automated tests.

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The world of finance desperately needs good APIs and free data sets. Extracting the Russell 2000 members from a PDF was a mess.

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Ad-hoc Faraday shield found and removed (don't put a box of large metal paperclips on your cable modem adjacent to your wireless AP).

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"Most of the quality benefit that teams get comes from the development team being more careful." http://ur1.ca/7z1a2

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Pre-monad Haskell might qualify.

chromatic Perl users

"I am tired of cleaning up new projects... that look like they were written in !perl 4. " Huzzah! http://ur1.ca/7ynnp

chromatic Perl users

Why I Run Tests on Install: http://ur1.ca/7ymfj !perl

chromatic Perl users

Not using global variables on purpose is too hard. Let's switch languages!http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3534294 !perl

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Hey, Google News. The semicolon is a valid separator in query strings. Please join us on the 21st century Internet. You'll like it.

chromatic Perl users

Speed up perlbrew with Test Parallelism: http://ur1.ca/7wuvk !perl

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"[B]etter languages and environments don't make you perform that tedious, error-prone] transform." http://ur1.ca/7tfqo

chromatic Perl users

Submitted a talk proposal to YAPC::NA 2012, "When Wrong is Better": http://ur1.ca/7qpuf !perl