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Many of the same advantages hold for any other language's frameworks, with the added benefit of using any other language.

Perl is valid if you know it and want to use it. Otherwise, not really.

There is a port of mechanize to Python as well, if that is your main reason to use Perl.

Whatever you can do in "disgusting hacks" can be done just as quickly in a way which won't make you want to vomit when you look over the code again later.

I would really like to hear from more people who use Circus in production. It seems interesting.

I have never had the slightest indication that anyone actually looked at my Github account listed at the top of the resume, let alone that this ever helped me get any job I've had. So I'm inclined to treat this as an urban legend.

Happens all the time, e.g. with postings for positions that are really intended to be filled internally, or with perpetual postings which do nothing but solicit people to go into a resume pool when there is no specific job.

It wouldn't be funny because it's not even surprising for job searchers to be jerked around, just normal

Assuming that Minix adopted a reasonable license and fixed outstanding issues that make Linux currently better, I'm asking you to tell me what's wrong with that. We have a de facto monoculture of Windows on the PC right now and I don't think that's better.

So much the worse for using Android. It's past time that we have proper Linux on phones without interposing all the Google-Java stuff.

They have openly discussed their intention to build an X-compatible layer on top of Wayland for remote windows for years, it is really sad that FUD has prevailed about how they want to take our remote windows away.

A Linux monoculture is never going to happen. But what would actually be wrong with it?

I think success is mentioned because of all the people who have begun to enter the industry just to cash in somehow.

They didn't get rich programming, not at all. They got rich owning successful companies. The fact that they did some of the programming for some MVP or other is almost incidental. They were not getting paid huge salaries for cranking out code and they certainly weren't the only ones involved. If you can pay someone to do the same kind of work on an MVP and then you win the same kind of lottery, it is not necessary for you to have any direct programming input.

What happens to the X windows forwarded over ssh when the connection drops? Can you reattach afterwards?

They were the major ones touting Wayland for a while, it seems unlikely that they "haven't investigated".

Nothing has actually happened yet.

What do you usually do with these fail2ban notifications?

As English, this stuff is totally incomprehensible and unusable. Absolutely nothing is conveyed to actual human English speakers by saying the word 'buffalo' 400 times in a row.

If it is 'grammatical' then it is grammatical by virtue of conforming to some idealized grammar. But when this grammar is so far off not just from anything people say, but anything they can actually understand, it really only means that the idea that this grammar models real English has been reduced to total absurdity.

Do you have any information to indicate that this kind of cognitive interference is due to glucose depletion?

Corollary: CS doesn't need to be a science

Anything involved with what? What kind of specific task do you actually mean by 'involved'?

If you don't mind leaving Python's advantages on the table then use C in good health. Odds are that other people will be waiting on you to produce the C code, so let's hope you actually needed to do that.

But these are not randomly selected questions. To illustrate, consider if someone posted a story asking whether Jews were genetically disposed to be greedy. This could be dressed up quite a bit, and it's not impossible that this would very rarely be asked by someone without any social awareness. But there's a smart prior which says that someone asking such a question has a strong agenda and that the "just asking questions" bit is a smoke screen.

One of the implications of this "question" relies on the common belief that gay men are pedophiles and/or will teach gay sex to the children. In some people's heads, it's a matter of wicked, unclean gays corrupting the innocent children.

If nobody had such beliefs, then it is virtually impossible to understand why we would suppose that gay people are unfit as parents.

Supposing that people are recruited into homosexuality by gay parents is not precisely described as "open-minded curiosity".

If we are going to be open-mindedly curious, then let's ask questions like what is the basis for imagining that being gay is a choice?

Pleas are actually very common. If he refused, then there would be people posting on how admirable it was that he stuck to his guns.

Getting disgruntled and indiscriminately dumping whatever you find on sensitive internal networks, in violation of the military law you agreed to be governed by when you VOLUNTEERED for the US military, is not an honorable self-sacrifice.

If we believe that, then we should believe that any employee of any startup has an honorable sacrificial duty to leak that startup's code along with a dump of its databases.

From the article: "the first usable PyPy was released in 2010." For most practical purposes PyPy is only two years old, not ten.

Why would it help to have Smalltalk on an opaque, proprietary server platform which absolutely locks in every project that is coded for it?

Something neglected in this discussion is the role of hostile interactions from others in this field. Impostor syndrome is not always something with a strictly internal origin. If people are dominating you and making you feel bad, and you become submissive, that is a pattern as old as primates and it shouldn't surprise us when it happens also when you are working with people who are extremely concerned with proving they or their clique are better than others. Which is super common in CS and a large part of why many women have a bad experience.

Perhaps I am being too literal here. But plenty of men are men, and yet are not taken seriously. So merely being a man does not mean you are taken seriously. In other words, no, men are not taken seriously "just because they are men".

To clarify, it is still a social problem for you. It just isn't an ideological cause, because you're male.

No, it is not terrible to aim an article (or a site) primarily at one gender or another.