Comments on: Faster than a speeding bullet point http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/02/23/faster-than-a-speeding-bullet-point It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:23:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: Pete Prodoehl http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/02/23/faster-than-a-speeding-bullet-point/comment-page-1#comment-1514 Pete Prodoehl Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=592#comment-1514 <p>Back in my college days I had at least one semester where my classes ran from Noon to 9 PM, then I'd stay up until AM and wake up around 10 AM... That was the best schedule I ever had...</p> <p>And as for character encoding issues, yeah, I hear ya, try dealing with 5 years of 'badly formed content' in files on disk, in a Microsoft SQL database, and from an old HP that's still running. Nightmare, truly a nightmare.</p> Back in my college days I had at least one semester where my classes ran from Noon to 9 PM, then I’d stay up until AM and wake up around 10 AM… That was the best schedule I ever had…

And as for character encoding issues, yeah, I hear ya, try dealing with 5 years of ‘badly formed content’ in files on disk, in a Microsoft SQL database, and from an old HP that’s still running. Nightmare, truly a nightmare.

]]> By: Phillip Pearson http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/02/23/faster-than-a-speeding-bullet-point/comment-page-1#comment-1515 Phillip Pearson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=592#comment-1515 <p>Which time zone are you in? If it's PST, try doing consulting for New Zealand or Australian companies. The exchange rate isn't good for you, so you'll need to charge a LOT to make decent money, but you'll be able to sleep in ...</p> <p>Alternatively, pretend you're in New Zealand, and work for American companies remotely!</p> Which time zone are you in? If it’s PST, try doing consulting for New Zealand or Australian companies. The exchange rate isn’t good for you, so you’ll need to charge a LOT to make decent money, but you’ll be able to sleep in …

Alternatively, pretend you’re in New Zealand, and work for American companies remotely!

]]> By: Mark Eichin http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/02/23/faster-than-a-speeding-bullet-point/comment-page-1#comment-1516 Mark Eichin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=592#comment-1516 <p>The lack of a decent python is why my last PDA upgrade was to an (otherwise disappointing) wince ipaq (which will probably get repurposed as a linux box now that I have a Symbian phone with Amaretto and have actually written PDA-class apps with it...)</p> The lack of a decent python is why my last PDA upgrade was to an (otherwise disappointing) wince ipaq (which will probably get repurposed as a linux box now that I have a Symbian phone with Amaretto and have actually written PDA-class apps with it…)

]]> By: Aristotle http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/02/23/faster-than-a-speeding-bullet-point/comment-page-1#comment-1517 Aristotle Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=592#comment-1517 <p>Have you seen Pugs yet? It's the first Perl6 implementation, written in Haskell, and intended to work out the kinks in the specs for the later real Parrot-based implementation. But it's evolving jaw-droppingly fast. Autrijus started on it a month ago, then the project started picking up members two weeks ago, and it already implements a substantial subset of Perl6. It's like all those years of waiting have culminated in an implementational flashbang.</p> Have you seen Pugs yet? It’s the first Perl6 implementation, written in Haskell, and intended to work out the kinks in the specs for the later real Parrot-based implementation. But it’s evolving jaw-droppingly fast. Autrijus started on it a month ago, then the project started picking up members two weeks ago, and it already implements a substantial subset of Perl6. It’s like all those years of waiting have culminated in an implementational flashbang.

]]> By: Aristotle http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/02/23/faster-than-a-speeding-bullet-point/comment-page-1#comment-1518 Aristotle Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=592#comment-1518 <p>Hmm, my link was stripped. That would be http://pugscode.org to get the scoop.</p> Hmm, my link was stripped. That would be http://pugscode.org to get the scoop.

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