Andrew Rodland

• About: Instant karma's gonna get you.

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• Commented on The syntax of English is undecidable
  Meaning informs parsing. Meaning, and prior experience, clearly have a big impact on how our brains interpret a series of words. But it's not absolutely necessary. We can see unfamiliar words, intuit a part of speech for them, and move...
• Commented on YAPC::NA is 75% sold out!
  I hope you're counting confirmed speakers in your attendance total, if you've got a hard limit....
• Commented on I was called "fucking asshole"
  You are unfit to live on a planet with human beings. Please stop....
• Posted More Marpa Madness to Andrew Rodland

  For the past year or so, I've been following the posts on Marpa with interest, but I never got around to writing anything with it, because honestly, the docs seemed a little bit opaque and incomplete to me.

  Then, the other day, I…

• Commented on Never ever trust Ubuntu
  It's possible for a newer but more popular package to "win" after a couple of deprecation cycles. Since 2009, installing "git" will get you the git VCS, and installing "gnuit" will get you what used to be in the "git"...
• Commented on I need pack examples for the Camel
  I don't have a good example using @ or any of the things you asked for, but I do have an example that's interesting in its own way. Years ago, in Freenode #perl, I was working with someone who was...
• Commented on Syntax police?
  Then again, that ambiguity is *good* ambiguity if you like the idea of aliased.pm :)...
• Commented on short CPANTS update
  The one thing that confuses me endlessly -- why does the CPANTS grapher think that the year 2010 is both before and after the year 2008? http://cpants.perl.org/static/graphs/ARODLAND_dists.png...
• Commented on Why the Lacuna Expanse is good for Perl
  Now (not to belittle TLE at all), all we need is more. Because it's always embarrassing to have one awesome thing that everyone points out whenever a topic comes up. :)...
• Commented on What are the best Perl one-liners you've written?
  Not technically a oneliner because it's not standalone code, but one that I like anyway: cartesian product in one tweet. With the air let back into it, it's: use List::Util qw(reduce); sub list_product { reduce { [ map { my...

Comment Threads

• Ben Bullock commented on I was called "fucking asshole"

  All you need to do is to make a Perl script which goes through each module. E.g. I keep modules in a directory /home/ben/projects/"Module-Name"

  for my $module (</home/ben/projects/*>) {
      if (-f "$module/Makefile.PL") {
          # open file
          # Add the "META-MERGE" lines
    …

• Ben Bullock commented on I was called "fucking asshole"

  Sorry the code was swallowed by the comments, here it is:
  http://codepad.org/y6rHc9Xe
  

• schmorp commented on I was called "fucking asshole"

  > Whether or not any of the technical realities you say are true, none of that gives you the right to continually be an awful person to anyone who happens to stumble on your RT queue and genuinely try to help fix your problem in the most obvious way possible.

  I fully agree, thats one reasonw hy I am not an awful person to anybody who genuinely tries to "fix" my problem.

  However, I detect an obvious troll when I see one, and by now, it's quite obvious that all kmx intends to is to stir dissent.

  Nobody who wants to "genuinely" help me in any way ignores what I tell them…

• schmorp commented on I was called "fucking asshole"

  > Marc. Really, we're just trying to help. I know we probably seem like a bunch of whiney retards to you some ( most? ) days

  The problem is not people who seem to be whiney retards, the problem is the whiney trolls that play you successfully.

  What you basically ask for is to feed the trolls endlessly - they play you, you play the polite game, it never ends.

  I don't care if others do that, but I won't. When an asshole like kmx comes along and obviously only wants to make trouble and waste time that could be used for more useful things (like helping *genuine* users), th…

• schmorp commented on I was called "fucking asshole"

  Your code of course doesn't even come close to whats needed. Posting some incomplete code that doesn't even remotely come near to a solution and proclaiming that it is easy is very naive.

  Besides, the extra work is not the only problem with this approach.