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  • Commented on I just discovered Dev.to
    Also, you can follow all of the posts tagged "Perl" on dev.to at: https://dev.to/t/perl It's also one of the sources I use for Planet Perl: https://perl.theplanetarium.org/...
  • Commented on I just discovered Dev.to
    I highly recommend using a service like dev.to as a way to break out of the echo chamber and get your blog posts read by people who aren't just the Perl community. But you don't have to give up blogging...
  • Commented on No One Is Immune to Abuse
    And that's as good an example as we could hope to see of the kind of attitude we've been trying to remove from the Perl community over the last ten years. I know you won't care in the slightest, but...
  • Commented on Require in Perl, what should I pay attention?
    Loading external code using "require" is a very dated method - it was introduced in Perl 4. These days, the best approach is to turn "script_sub.pl" into a proper Perl module and load it with "use". But that's probably a...
  • Commented on Moving from Perl_5.8.8 (2007) TO Perl_5.36.0 (2022)
    Rocky 9.1 comes with Perl 5.32 as the system Perl. So how have you installed Perl 5.36? And where is it installed to? I hope you haven't overwritten the system Perl at /usr/bin/perl - that seems like a very risky...
  • Commented on I am jumping my Web pages from 2007 to 2022(now).
    When you say that "It didn't run", what exactly do you mean? Did you get an error message? Did it fail silently? This web site isn't a help forum. You'll probably get more help if you post your problem on...
  • Commented on Ideas from TPRC2022: Bug/Task/Issue independent interface and a cli tool
    Prior art: Best Practical's SD project. http://syncwith.us/sd/ (Web site not updated for 10 years)...
  • Commented on Draft: Dancer2 Deprecation Policy
    I bet more people would follow that link if it was clickable :-)...
  • Commented on Perl weekly challenge 98
    we will need to use a global hash to contain the opened file handles The state keyword means that this doesn't need to be a global hash....
  • Commented on What do I use to release a module to CPAN for the first time?
    I've never used any of the clever distribution building tools like Dist::Zilla or Module::Starter. I like doing things manually. There are really two things to get right - the directory structure and the Makefile. The directory structure is simple. The...
  • Commented on Monthly Report - September
    Not sure why you think Abigail is from India. He (not she!) is Dutch....
  • Commented on Why I don't try the Perl Weekly Challenges
    I hope this might help solve at least some of your problems. Learn Enough Git and Github to take part in the Perl Weekly Challenge...
  • Commented on Thinking and Question of The Proposal for Perl 7 - day1
    > At least, 2018 to 2020, In Japan, > Perl's reputation has improved for the > stability. But we're not talking about reputation. We're talking about the level of usage....
  • Commented on Thinking and Question of The Proposal for Perl 7 - day1
    >> However its users have declined and >> declined. > > This is not. Maybe you only see TIBOE and > stackoverflow information. You maybe get > much negative information of Perl from > other people. It seems likely that...
  • Commented on Handling Perl character codes is very easy even for beginners.
    3. if you get text from outside, decode text from platform charset(Linux is UTF-8, Windows is cp932) This is over-simplified. Firstly, different versions of Windows use different encodings (here in the UK, for example, we get cp1252). And secondly, you...
  • Commented on A Static Archive of use.perl.org
    Excellent work, thanks. Now I need to seriously think about doing the same for this site! Is it worth speaking to Robert and Ask and asking them if they would consider pointing the old use.perl.org domain at your Github site?...
  • Commented on Perl Weekly Challenge 028: File Content and Digital Clock
    Pedantically, the definition for the "-T" operator says: File is an ASCII or UTF-8 text file So printing "The file content is ascii" is potentially inaccurate :-)...
  • Commented on Perl Weekly Challenge && Damian Conway
    I think, I owe him a drink next time I meet, as per the English tradition. However, being a practice Muslim, I can't offer drink, instead I would offer box of chocolates. That's ok. He doesn't drink either :-)...
  • Commented on Perl Blogs
    Here's the latest update from the project to replace this site....
  • Commented on Moose should of stayed in bed
    "Should have" (which abbreviates to "should've", not "should of") :-)...
  • Commented on Modern Perl CGI
    I think that an even easier way to deploy code in a CGI environment is to just change the shebang line to #!/usr/bin/plackup No need to add the Plack::Handler code....
  • Commented on Modern Perl CGI
    The CGI.pm version will only work on "basically any server" until "basically any server" stops coming with Perls older than 5.20 It's worse than that. RHEL/Centos 6 and 7 (which are both currently mainstream in the low-cost web hosting industry)...
  • Commented on Progress of blogs.perl.org grant
    Yes. The current implementation is using a long-unsupported version of Movable Type, with no upgrade path available to us. The site has a number of problems (some annoying and some critical) that we have been unable to fix. This is...
  • Commented on My First Perl Conference
    I went to see Regexp Mini Tutorial: Assertions, but unfortunately I got lost in the technical stuff pretty early on because I'm not very good. I will have to go through the slides/video when it becomes available and quiz Barbie....
  • Commented on The Perl Conference in Glasgow - Report
    Let's be clear here. I didn't say I expect your patches would be "good enough", I said I *knew* they would be good :-)...
  • Commented on StackOverflow that!
    But Perl Monks just looks really ugly. And they store passwords in plain text!...
  • Commented on Picking a better Markdown library for bad input
    I switched to using Pandoc for all my Markdonw processing. Haven't seen a problem yet....
  • Commented on 1000th consecutive days releasing to CPAN
    Larry, I don't think that Mohammed has released 1,000 modules to CPAN. Some of these his releases will be new versions of existing modules. There are currently 96 modules listed for Mohammed's CPAN account....
  • Commented on 1000th consecutive days releasing to CPAN
    This is awesome news. Congratulations and well done....
  • Commented on Introduce Perl tutorial site which write by google engineer
    Some problems I found in the first few paragraphs. Perl stands in for "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language" No. It doesn't. From the list of pros: Used in Web development for mostly Payment Gateways. What? From the list of cons:...
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  • Aristotle commented on No One Is Immune to Abuse

    Hey, the guy who doesn’t care is back to reaffirm his not caring. Welcome back. 🙂 Of course I’ma do me. Who else?

  • The Mighty Buzzard commented on No One Is Immune to Abuse

    Beats me. You seem to be concerned about people liking you, so it could be anybody.

    Most of the overly fragile people are not in reality overly fragile anyway. They simply hate you and will use the weapon you're giving them every time you fail to slap them down for doing it to others against you.

    The choice here is between demanding they act like a grownup who leaves his non-work feelings at home or letting them run everyone who gets things done off. There is not a middle ground, only an inevitable decline if you allow it.

  • Diab Jerius commented on No One Is Immune to Abuse

    Lots of stereotypes and assumptions being thrown around here, as well as some pretty grand generalizations.

    A community is defined by a set of common values and yes, a code of conduct of acceptable behavior. That's been part of human culture since before recorded history.

    Every community eventually sets down rules for what is acceptable and what isn't, otherwise it falls apart and is no longer a community.

    Some people don't like rules which limit how they behave towards others. Fine. But their behavior is not always welcomed by others in the community, and if the comm…

  • Aristotle commented on No One Is Immune to Abuse
    You seem to be concerned about people liking you, so it could be anybody.

    Buzzard, Buzzard. If you go around accusing people of not knowing the difference between empathy and sympathy, maybe you should not be making the same mistake. 🙂

  • brian d foy commented on I just discovered Dev.to

    Note that Reddit filters out dev.to links that people submit, so if you have problems with that in /r/perl, contact the mods.

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