Kiran

• Website: brainturk.com

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• Commented on Perl and self flagellation...
  Database code written with DBIx::Class is easier to understand that the equivalent code written using DBI and raw SQL. When I have had to deal with complex queries DBIX::Class is harder for me, I prefer using raw SQL and...
• Commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?
  Here is some data[1] from perl.com sometime back. I came back to India from the US last year and am working on my own startup and we are a perl shop in bangalore, we are a five member team and...
• Commented on Head Gestures in browser based game
  You can go ahead and use it for your demo. Yes that is correct this demo uses only getUserMedia part...
• Posted Head Gestures in browser based game to Kiran

  Recently I stumbled upon WebRTC. I started looking into this and found some useful libraries on github .

  I have been creating some ="http://brai…

• Commented on Comparing YUI - Dojo - Ext JS - jQuery
  Hi Ron, That's a nice comparison and gives a good overview . I have started using backbone.js with underscore.js, which I am beginning to like a lot....
• Commented on So apparently this is creepy
  Hi Steven, Although I have lived in the US for six years I have the same thoughts as you have and I do not understand this reaction (this data is already available and anyone can get this even without programming...
• Posted Brainturk - Cognitive Games to Kiran

  Brainturk.com is yet another perl powered app that I have been working on , These games are taken from various research papers and articles published. Try it out and let me know if you have any comments/suggestions
  I decided to go with

• Posted make test errors failed to map segment from shared object to Kiran

  I had to install a version of Storable 2.30 for a client on their server and was getting the following error

  failed to map segment from shared object: Operation not permitted
  Can't load '/tmp/del/Storable-2.30/blib/arch/auto/Storable/Storable.so' for module Storable: /tmp/del/Storab…

• Posted gdb basics to Kiran

  Getting started with gdb , some notes on this

  objdump (otool on osx) is a program to examine a binary.
  To examine perl run the command

  objdump -D /usr/bin/perl |grep -A40 main.:

  Interesting to see the function call
  objdump -D /usr/bin/perl |grep -A400 main.: |gr…

• Commented on Allowing anonymous comments
  Thanks , I was not aware of the enable anonymous comment option, I found that now...
• Posted Allowing anonymous comments to Kiran

  Gabor has a post here where he points out that the level of interaction is lower than the other blogs, he mentions blogs.perl.org and chromatic's blog as an example.
  On more than one occ…

• Commented on Binary search versus hash lookup
  I have also started reading skiena's Algorithm design (I highly recommend the online lectures just google for url). I just read the chapter on Dictionary , I'm still trying to grasp so I might be wrong but here goes ....
• Posted YAPC - Lightning workshop to Kiran

  After attending YAPC::NA at asheville I got an email for the YAPC feedback survey. I filled it yesterday and later thought of something that could be tried but am not sure if it's a good idea so here is a brain dump :-).

  The idea is to combine social as well as technology aspect together…

• Posted Cognitive tasks and Dual N Back to Kiran

  A few days back I stumbled on this blog post about increasing your intelligence and the Dual N…

• Posted Phenona Perl platform on the cloud to Kiran

  Phenona is acquired by Active state . I have not seen…

• Posted python2.6 for dotcloud to Kiran

  Dotcloud now supports perl. Dotcloud command-line interface requires python 2.6. Here are the steps I used to install python2.6 on mac 10.5.8

  wget http://python.org…

• Commented on JavaScript: The Good Parts
  One of the examples is the javascript == does not work correctly in all the cases ''=='0' //false 0==''//true the suggestion is to use === other example is how the javascript "this" is sometimes bound to the global object based...
• Posted Useful Links to Kiran

  Here are some useful resources.
  Khan Academy If you have or know any children who are in school, this is an awesome resource, Sal is an excellent and talented teacher . The video's are ten minutes in length and of very good quality.

• Commented on Perl vs JavaScript
  Two undefs , use === !== operators as per this (Page 109)...
• Commented on Introduction to Perl at BarCamp Kerala 8, India
  There were some folks interested in organizing a perl conference in the Bangalore.pm Thread . As far as I know there are a lot of Perl programmers in India but most of them use perl to get their jobs done...
• Commented on Perl on Android
  I am not aware of any mailing list , This wiki has some information ASE...
• Posted Perl on Android to Kiran

  I got a new Nexus One phone .
  Here is the hello_world.pl that is installed in the /sdcard/ase/scripts

  $ cat hello_world.pl
  use Android;
  my $a = Android->new();
  …

Comment Threads

• Mithaldu commented on Perl and self flagellation...

  My standard policy is to treat people with a base level of respect and adjust it by how they behave themselves. You can see an example of how i deal with people who actually make an effort to learn here:

  https://gist.github.com/wchristian/acb06503e968e78d3e35

  If people exhibit obvious signs of actively wanting to avoid learning anything, then my level of respect drops and i speak more plainly and directly to them.

• Dave Cross commented on Perl and self flagellation...

  I have no problem at all with people using "non-Modern" Perl. If that's how you want to write your code, then that's fine, of course.

  What I object to is people saying that using Modern Perl tools somehow makes their code harder to understand, when the whole thrust of the Modern Perl movement[1] is the complete opposite.

  [1] Insofar as an unconnected group of projects can be called a "movement".

• paul.seamons commented on Perl and self flagellation...

  I agree 100% with rlauer and Dave Shultz. The problems "modern" perl solves are interesting problems, but they are academic problems. They are not the problems I have seen actually be relevant in any of my own business scopes which I have been involved in during my short 16 years of Perl experience.

  As I see it, the large "Modern Perl" tools that you are complaining about pretty much all exist to make code easier to understand and maintain than older Perl code.

  I think you are correct in assessing why they exist. However just because they set out with the goa…
• David Shultz commented on Perl and self flagellation...

  That is very sad indeed, you seem to have had a different view back in 2011 when responding to a post by chromatic about civility (or a lack there of) in the Perl community. I encourage you to come back to the fold of treating people with respect regardless of their level of "desire to learn", it seems to me deciding how to treat someone else based on the desire to learn might say more about you then then other person.

• David Shultz commented on Perl and self flagellation...

  Very well spoken, thank you for your input.