Month: February 2014
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perlmonks: The First Letter of Erudil to the Monasterians
http://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=149675 (“1st Monasterians”) http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Erudil 15: If there are those who refuse to accept our wonderful message, do not allow them to draw you into a fruitless flame war, and thereby bring disrepute upon yourselves and our Monastery. 16: Remember well: “What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his…
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Conor Myhrvold: The Fall Of Perl, The Web’s Most Promising Language
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026446/the-fall-of-perl-the-webs-most-promising-language Alright, as Brian d’Foy mentioned at https://twitter.com/briandfoy_perl/status/437971859003670528 : The Fall of Perl” would more suitably be titled “The Rise of Python.
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why Putin is so interested in Syria and the Ukraine: the Russian navy’s ports
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.576212 read the Ha’aretz article and find, that in 1994 the U.S. and Russia signed a “security guarantee memorandum”! realize that the U.S. are rather interested in not disturbing Russia’s circles too much! and last not least: Russia is operating the shuttle service between I.S.S. and Planet Earth, do you remember?!!
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Perl, UCS-2, ISO-10646-UCS-2, UTF-8
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/630813 UCS-2 is a strict subset of UTF-16, with no BOM and just the BMP (“Basic Multilingual Plane”). UTF-16 is handled internally and rather fast by Expat (the core element of XML::Parser), much faster than the decodings done through *.enc files. Since around 2006 and despite supposedly un-enumerable requests for ucs-2.enc requestors always got told to use UTF-16…
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okcupid: “We’re having technical difficulties, try again later.” – that means you are haunted by one of their trolls …
… and maybe they already closed your account – sometimes (after whatever investigation) they release your account again. But it does not help to ask them, they don’t answer. Maybe they do, if you are an “A-User” (i.e. you pay for it), they answer your enquiry. You can always threaten, you withdraw your PayPal /…
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comparison of revision control software on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
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Packt Publishing: Git: Version Control for Everyone
https://www.packtpub.com/git-version-control-for-everyone/book