Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 148

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Can I do anything but to smile while posting? Comments Anonymous 2008-06-21 20:43:56 Can I do anything but to Can I do anything but to smile while reading?

Zack, Wouter: Yup, Perl 6’s scheme changes to reduce confusion to the programmer and to make the language better Huffman coded. Why? As for the programmer, it comes out of observation - Changing the sigil depending on what you are expecting to get back (i.e. a hash has a ‘%’ sigil, but if you only want one value off it, you use the ‘$’ sigil, as it indicates a scalar variable) confuses more often than it helps - Specially newcomers. Besides, it will be easier for the interpreter itself - The sigil will become an invariant but required part of...

We met Manuel near Playa Azul, in the Pacific coast (Michoacán - ~20Km from Puerto Lázaro Cárdenas). We had a very nice evening. Thanks! Attachments (602 KB)

In Antigua, Guatemala Attachments (557 KB)

I went on a family vacation to Guatemala on December 2007/January 2008. I met with the local Debianers. Here, with Edgar, Wences and Josué, eating dinner at “El Pollo Campero”, near my hotel in Guatemala City. Attachments (526 KB)

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Like many people interested in bringing computer security awareness to the public at large, some eight years ago I was thrilled to get acquinted with sudo. A great tool for giving specific admin rights to specific users in a very granular way, with great semantics… And allowing for a degree of flexibility much higher than my needs, honestly. I think it was the Canonical crew who first thougt of using it backwards, “solving” (for some definition of solution, of course) the long-known problem that desktop users cannot be bothered to understand they are using a normal account which is, for...

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