Vyacheslav Matyukhin

• Website: berekuk.ru
• About: I blog about Perl.

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• Commented on /usr/local/bin rant
  Oops, I copy-pasted Neil's code and forgot to replace the link. Thanks! :)...
• Commented on /usr/local/bin rant
  I don't. I don't use CentOS at all. But some users of my code do, and I don't blame them. Not all modules are packaged as RPMs, and those which are packaged are often out-of-date....
• Commented on /usr/local/bin rant
  > which is likely in the same place cpan(1) is Ok, I checked, that's not the case on CentOS. perl-CPAN.x86_64 contains /usr/bin/cpan, which then installs stuff to /usr/local/bin/ with default settings. But I admit I don't know anything about CentOS....
• Commented on /usr/local/bin rant
  > And, the -i switch there is just extra typing. :) Yeah, I know, old habit... > For cron, I don't rely on PATH at all This doesn't help if your script calls other scripts....
• Posted /usr/local/bin rant to Vyacheslav Matjukhin

  You get the root shell with sudo -s.
  You enter: cpan App…

• Commented on Play Perl is a Startup
  Thanks, everyone! I, too, kind of hope it works out :)...
• Commented on Play Perl is a Startup
  Oh yes, flattr. I love flattr. Even though nobody ever clicked on my flattr button for Ubic; maybe that's got something to do with my "I don't need donations" note... I added the button to the play-perl's footer. Let's see...
• Commented on Play Perl is a Startup
  Gabor, I remember you talked to me about "take your project and turn it into startup" last year at YAPC::Russia. I think it was one of the several reasons I decided I should do this. Thank you :)...
• Commented on Play Perl is a Startup
  I've got enough savings to keep me afloat for a year or so :) Ok, possible monetization routes: - freemium - not the kind of "pay if you want to add more than 5 quests", but more of "donate this...
• Posted Play Perl is a Startup to Vyacheslav Matjukhin

  I'm leaving my daily job at Yandex in 2 months to see how far I can take the concepts behind http://play-perl.org/.

  I spent 7 years at Yandex, it's pretty much the only job I ever had.
  I never participated in any startups.
  I have no idea wh…

• Commented on Idea: perl community homepage
  Awesome! I think something like this should be the front page to the perl.org, actually....
• Commented on Don't release experiments to CPAN
  Issues with this approach: 1) If you improve the infrastructure (cpanm, metacpan) support of github modules, you get the same problem again; and if you don't improve it, you put experimental module users to disadvantage ("author has forgot or is...
• Posted Play Perl: Sign In with Email to Vyacheslav Matjukhin

  Quick recap: ="http:…

• Commented on Play Perl is online
  You can sign in with email (using Mozilla Persona) now....
• Commented on Play Perl is more popular than rt.cpan.org!
  You can sign in with email (using Mozilla Persona) now....
• Commented on Play Perl is more popular than rt.cpan.org!
  garfieldnate is working on GitHub login capabilities. If that quest will somehow stall, I'm also going to implement one-time email authentication tokens. (I really don't want to deal with passwords and keeping them secure until absolutely necessary.)...
• Commented on CUDA::Minimal takes two steps backwards, one step forward
  I didn't manage to install cuda, btw. NVidia's .pkg installation finishes without problems, but there's still no nvcc binary (at least in my default $PATH), so I can't install ExtUtils::nvcc....
• Commented on CUDA::Minimal takes two steps backwards, one step forward
  So is it CUDA::Minimal or CUDA::Simple? PS: I'm downloading cuda for OS X right now to try your work. Wonder why it's so huge (635MB...)...
• Commented on Pumpkin Perl Breakdown
  I like your reasoning. +1 to the proposal....
• Commented on Play Perl is more popular than rt.cpan.org!
  Indeed it is, thank you for pointing me to it....
• Posted Play Perl is more popular than rt.cpan.org! to Vyacheslav Matjukhin

  $ curl -s 'http://play-perl.org/api/quest' | jq length
  197

  rt.cpan.org tickets created after 2013…

• Commented on Play Perl is online
  Usernames and passwords suck even more. And I'm not that confident in my frontend skills, so I'd be paranoid about losing the passwords database. If it's any help to you, sign in with Github is coming, hopefully soon....
• Commented on About the Grants Committee
  > The first claimant would get the bounty. (Maybe this feature could be added to play-perl?) Sounds interesting, and completely in line with my future play-perl plans. But I'm not sure monetary bounties for tasks is a healthy motivator for...
• Commented on I <3 play-perl
  Thank you! :D BTW, links in your post are broken....
• Posted Play Perl: first 24 hours and the power of likes to Vyacheslav Matjukhin

  Hacking on a live website with real users is so much more interesting than developing it in a local sandbox.
  (I'm developing and supporting a big website with >1M hits/day at …

• Commented on Play Perl is online
  Awesome. I personally like the CUDA::Minimal one; never used it but I always wanted to play with CUDA some day. BTW, you can now see the likes count on your task list. Deploying a new website is really motivating :)...
• Commented on Play Perl is online
  Thanks! Killing people's intrinsic motivation by allowing them to publicly declare what they want to achieve without actually achieving it is my biggest fear with this project :) On the other hand, public declaration of your goals gives you peer...
• Posted Play Perl is online to Vyacheslav Matjukhin

  It's a very, very early alpha. There are no achievements, no news feed (Upd: news feed is in), no pre-set quests, not enough quest metadata and almost no…

• Commented on On the version number succeeding Perl 5
  Perl 6 may not be the successor, but Larry got (unofficial?) dibs on “Perl” name. I remember him saying a few years ago that he doesn’t want to rename Perl 6. And rebranding Perl 5 as Perl 7 leaves Perl...
• Commented on Lock::File - yet another file locking module
  Good point. The origin for lockf() name choice was freebsd lockf utility, which we used long time ago, before Lock::File. I see how it can be confusing, though, and probably will rename it to something like lockfile(). PS: Filed as...

Comment Threads

• MidLifeXis commented on /usr/local/bin rant

  /usr/local, on some platforms, is not secure. On other platforms, /usr/contrib is an unsecure location. There is a reason not to include it in root's default path.

  Under cron (or system startup, or manually running scripted tasks), I typically have a launcher script that I use if I need to set up an environment. The reason is that I want to have an explicit environment when running things as root. As myself, that is an entirely different story, but as root, I want to know exactly what is going on.

  --MLX

• Neil Bowers commented on /usr/local/bin rant

  But the flipside is that knowing about the various package management tools is a PITA if you're a perl programmer who happens to have to admin various boxes :-)

  I install Perl in a number of places, and like the fact that my chosen method for installing Perl and modules works the same on all of them.

  That said, why don't you write a separate blog post on "packaging perl for sysadmins" or somesuch. I'd like to read opinions and suggestions from a more seasoned sysadmin on how to approach these sort of things.

• rlauer commented on /usr/local/bin rant

  Here's a nice thread that speaks to the cpan v package manager choice.

  http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/melbourne-pm/2007-May/002316.html

  I think developers prefer CPAN because they can immediately get things done, sys admins like order and integration of components into their environment that will play nice with their tool chains. Ultimately if you are deploying across multiple platforms flexibility is key, however in a homogenous environment rapid deployment using native tools is preferred. If the ai…

• Alex Kapranoff commented on /usr/local/bin rant

  Looks like your questhub/play-perl links are broken here.

• blinov.stanislav commented on Ubic - how to implement your first service

  How can I make Ubic service to run at system startup? :)