chromatic (chromatic)

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chromatic
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Hillsboro, Oregon
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Longtime free software developer (Perl 1, 5, 6 and Parrot), author, and novelist.

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  1. A fun language design question: how do you enable reflexivity in your MMD?

    about 11 hours ago from xmpp

  2. Very good feeling to have a recent PhD send you a thesis after reading something you've written.

    about 12 hours ago from xmpp

  3. "Nobody ever stopped to ask what the whole thing was supposed to do..." but TDD was the problem? http://ur1.ca/lx56

    about 14 hours ago from web

  4. Removing boilerplate black magic from test.pl and making a nice Test::More interface improved !perl testing culture more than anything else.

    about a day ago from xmpp

  5. Chunking and Programming Languages: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/02/chunking-and-programming-languages.html !perl

    about a day ago from xmpp

  6. @webmink @bkuhn I'll try both "freedom" and "liberty" and see how they work. Good suggestions.

    about a day ago from xmpp in context

  7. @webmink I asked Geschke and Warnock about that last year. They're definitely on the "standards are good, ours is best" train.

    about a day ago from xmpp in context

  8. @webmink I blame the corporate teat-sucking of the bland term "open source". Adobe gets marketing, free platforms get... nil.

    about a day ago from xmpp in context

  9. Thank goodness the word "open" is so much less confusing than the word "free". Thanks, OSI. Thanks. http://ur1.ca/lug7

    about a day ago from web in context

  10. In which I fail, yet again, to understand what a DSL is in Ruby: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1107827

    about 2 days ago from web

  11. @ryanc It's not unpleasant, but it's an odd workflow we didn't expect.

    about 4 days ago from web in context

  12. Drawing 8-bit sprites in GIMP with custom color palette, exporting to C to use with JavaScript canvas tag. No lie.

    about 4 days ago from web

  13. @webmink, the typical LWN reader probably skews more toward the LKML viewpoint (temporary forking good, abandoned code bad).

    about 5 days ago from xmpp

  14. @webmink, rough guess is *at least* half of the people commenting are developers.

    about 5 days ago from xmpp in context

  15. "You don't really join a community by asking it to change its practices firsthand!" http://lwn.net/Articles/372773/

    about 5 days ago from xmpp

  16. "See? It's just like English!" There's the Sapir-Whorf-teenager problem, @theory. http://ur1.ca/lhrd

    about 5 days ago from web

  17. Microsoft's Bing indexer still won't follow CPAN Testers robots.docx: http://ur1.ca/lhpk

    about 5 days ago from web

  18. A !perl Programming Maintenance Checklist: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/02/a-perl-programming-maintenance-checklist.html

    about 5 days ago from xmpp

  19. The "Ruby! DSLs! Flying Magical Ninjas!" folks are almost enough to make me believe Sapir-Whorf. That, or teenagers.

    about 6 days ago from xmpp in context

  20. Hemingway's problem, @rkj: "See old man. See old man fish. Fish, old man, fish. Die alone, old man. War is hell."

    about 7 days ago from xmpp in context
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