Mithaldu

• Website: cat.eatsmou.se
• About: Not writing much, but often found pawing at CPAN with other #perl-cats

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• Commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community
  Are you saying "thank you"? It seems your civility-free zone was accidentally contaminated with some civility!...
• Commented on Why I joined Propaganda.pm
  I am slightly interested in it too, but the lack of an IRC channel means that there's very little chance of useful communication for me....
• Commented on Perl QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster - notes by Wendy (2)
  > Comment from online: "deleting CPAN distributions that are older than 5 years" is a shockingly horrible idea. I hope it was rejected at the meeting. I do think it is not about deleting distributions, but about deleting uploads that...
• Commented on Slideshare? Really?
  Use private mode in your browser, make a fake account, and download the pdf directly....
• Commented on What about a Perl example?
  The only correct thing to do here is to contact the people, ask why they don't have one public (sometimes they have it, just not published) and offer to do it for them....
• Commented on OI::M::Finally({IO::All})
  It doesn't look like operator overloading will yield array output, but instead of slurp, all will be a bit nicer. :)...
• Commented on Idea: perl community homepage
  Your current talks section links to slideshare mostly, and i find that the people who care about simple talk slides are usually an entirely different set than those who care about videos. Thus, it'd probably help to have separate sections...
• Commented on Idea: perl community homepage
  Looks good. Could also use a field for videos, and please link to http://perl-tutorial.org/ prominently in your doc/tutorial section. :)...
• Commented on App::Midgen what is it?
  Why did you not use previous art, like that used in Dist::Zilla? https://metacpan.org/module/Perl::PrereqScanner Do we really need another implementation that will require time to work out all the kinks and edge cases, instead of improving existing ones?...
• Commented on Please build this for me, yesterday, also!
  According to daxim in #perl this already exists: http://p3rl.org/Test::TCP#empty_port...
• Commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity
  I've been asked before in job interviews by CTOs and assorted people about my plans to learn Perl 6. In one case because they believed Perl 5 to be completely obsolete and expected Perl 6 to be ready soon, and...
• Commented on About the Grants Committee
  I would also like to note: It is probably going to be more productive to talk about how much grant money is available (perhaps do so in terms of total grants that could be taken), instead of talking about how...
• Commented on About the Grants Committee
  My perspective: I've heard mention of grants before. I envisioned them as projects like Nicholas Clark or other full-time p5p hackers have. Something that takes considerable expertise and time to complete and which requires people to be able to not...
• Commented on Economics 101
  I was also curious why the person omitted CGI and scripts Maybe because he thinks they're not modern anymore, or because the other languages can't compete as well on those grounds. And what's ETL? Extract, Transform, Load? If so,...
• Commented on Economics 101
  Actually, to make it more clear: http://jobs.perl.org/job/16520 That is one of the jobs cut out of the graph by removing "cgi". I think it doesn't need to be demonstrated more clearly how bogus and arbitrary the graph is....
• Commented on Economics 101
  Nice explanation of a complex concept, thank you. :) Also, i have to say that the indeed graph annoys me because of the arbitrary restrcictions. I can understand cutting out sysadmin jobs because they usually just spam languages for the...
• Commented on AnyEvent::ForkManager stuck on Strawberry but not on ActivePerl?
  Can you link to some of these libc reports? Maintainership of Strawberry changed in recent months and it's possible kmx is not even aware of them....
• Commented on AnyEvent::ForkManager stuck on Strawberry but not on ActivePerl?
  That is exactly Capture::Tiny, but i couldn't imagine why it hangs. I've never observed it doing that. (In case you're curious, that program does multiplexing of STDOUT/ERR to multiple sources, so tee works on windows as well.)...
• Commented on AnyEvent::ForkManager stuck on Strawberry but not on ActivePerl?
  I think you’d need to have an expectation that the implementation should work on Windows and have it working on either ActivePerl or Strawberry before considering differences between the two distribution. I disagree. If the author knows that a distribution...
• Commented on AnyEvent::ForkManager stuck on Strawberry but not on ActivePerl?
  The reports by David Solimano and Matt Perry both are Strawberry Perls. I would suggest asking them if they went into task manager and killed perl processes manually. Also note this line in my run of those tests: CPAN::Reporter: test...
• Commented on How to write a test description
  This is very well written and hits an important peeve i've encountered often in the past and which i've done wrong often as well. (Until i realized what was annoying me and started fixing it in myself.) Thank you. :)...
• Commented on 13% of CPAN distributions don't have a test report on Windows
  Oh, ffs, blogs.perl.org, don't interpret my comment as HTML. The first sentence in the previous post ends with me pointing out that my smoker has actually run through CPAN multiple times now without getting stuck and is displaying this right...
• Commented on 13% of CPAN distributions don't have a test report on Windows
  I run an ActivePerl smoker and have done so for months now. It ---> never gets stuck "Smoker: Finished all available dists. Sleeping for 458 seconds." So, if 13% of all dists don't have a report, then that's because they...
• Commented on 50% of the new CPAN uploads lack a repository link
  Frankly, no. Very often i go to google to see if i can find a repo and do find one. Then, when talking with authors of the modules, they explain they just plain forgot, or didn't even know they could...
• Commented on Smoke testing on Windows
  My solution so far has been: Smoke on ActivePerl. I haven't tried smoking with Strawberry yet, but ActivePerl smoking has never hung in the manner you described....
• Commented on Personal end-of-year report for 2012
  If you actually care about a dist, you need to actually do some sleuthing at times and try and find ways to contact them more directly other than with an easily ignored ticket. This will not only raise the chances...
• Commented on Smoke testing on Windows
  I need a more principled way of queuing my tests. Honestly, you don't. When you use a decent disabled.yml file, and remove some of the unnecessary delays in CPAN.pm and the testers stuff, like my repo shows, you can burn...
• Commented on Smoke testing on Windows
  Alright, since i've been doing smoke testing a while ago, here's my current setup: https://github.com/wchristian/perl16_smoker Do note the commits changing the smoking modules and CPAN and such. :) Also, some things to note: - this file is your friend: https://github.com/wchristian/perl16_smoker/blob/master/cpan/prefs/disabled.yml...
• Commented on Finding Duplicate Code in Perl
  That kind of pureperl Levenshtein analysis would be too slow for the amount of code i'm working with. However, you have a brilliant idea there: When reducing the text, i can cut out large amounts of it by replacing the...
• Commented on Finding Duplicate Code in Perl
  I tested a wide variety of modules for calculating Levenshtein and i think i touched Text::Fuzzy too. The main problem is that there are two different algorithms (the normal and the Damerau variant) and varying compatibility with utf8. Right now...

Comment Threads

• Sawyer X commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community

  I was very happy to hear you got the tickets sponsored. Congratulations!

  I'll be glad to see you again. :)

• Joel Berger commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community

  I'm also glad you got the funding. I almost put in a few bucks, but being unemployed (having just completed my thesis) I backed out. Sadly its for the same reason that I'm not going, I wish I could afford it :-(. Oh well, hold the banner high! Enjoy!

• dagolden.com commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community

  "civility-free" implies to me that there will be no civility. I was sort of looking forward to watching you kill some sacred cows to the horror of the crowd.

  Maybe you mean "civility-optional" zone? :-)

• Peter Rabbitson commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community

  Definitely optional, but also sometimes bordering on free ;) Next post does in fact shape up to be a bovine massacre. Stay tuned!

• castaway.myopenid.com commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community

  Hooray, I hope you have a good time there!