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Bounced messages from a mailing list subscriber from April 2007 showing up today? That's a new brokenness in email scanning.

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Why yes, that was a Constantine reference--the emperor, not the comic.

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Install Distros Under Development Locally: http://ur1.ca/87pdo !perl

chromatic Kevin Granade

The question made sense to me; I can understand the thinking of the querent.

chromatic Perl users

Am I in a bad mood today, or is some of this !perl advice really amazingly bad? http://ur1.ca/87mi7

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The funniest/saddest thing I've read this week is the simple phrase "Their toolchain is UCS-2...."

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Spoiler: AAPL is overpriced over three years, fair at five, and a bargain for 10 - 20. (As of FY 2010's figures... caveat emptor.)

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Doing a free cash flow intrinsic valuation of AAPL makes me realize how long it's been since I've doin serious algebra and statistics.

chromatic Perl users

Experts versus Novices: http://ur1.ca/864r8 !perl

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"Posting questions without defensive coding squanders a community resource of altruism and good will." http://ur1.ca/85qdi

chromatic Perl users , ralesk

Me neither, unless it was "I'll make fun of you if you have an error warnings could have caught." I didn't understand the post much anyhow.

chromatic Perl users

I'll never apologize for teaching novices to ask the compiler to help them write better code: http://ur1.ca/85la8 !perl

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"It can sometimes be a slower process [to collaborate]... But it is always better for the community overall." http://ur1.ca/85l96 !perl

chromatic Perl users

The Values and Costs of Automation: http://ur1.ca/852lu !perl

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"If you know $magicUnicornLanguage, you can work with almost any $magicUnicornLanguage with little effort." Uh huh. http://ur1.ca/84cb1

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"Any software you write, ever, will have some degree of hidden complexity." http://ur1.ca/84bql

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Weird fact: the Modern !perl book has more reviews on Amazon.com than does the Camel.

chromatic Christopher Allan Webber

Sure; when users log in successfully, rehash their incoming passwords and update them in place.

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Upgrading users in place from SHA-1 to Bcrypt passwords was more work than I thought.

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Easy and Attractive Graphs with Chart::Clicker: http://ur1.ca/83p1b !perl