The flexibility of Perl allows for extremely nicely looking code. On the other hand, the same flexibility allows people to do ugly things, which Perl is very well known for. Sometimes, though, I come across a piece of code which is both ugly and beautiful. Here is one example written by one of my collegues: … Continue reading Perl obfuscations
Olga and I went for some shopping in Woolworth Ermes Olympia yesterday. We started off with a lunch in the caffeteria upstairs, as we often do. At first we were suprised as to how empty it looked. Usually there are at least a few people in the smoking area and twice that much in the … Continue reading Are they for real?
After reading through this post and linked articles, I went ‘Hmm..’ and remembered one of the recent Paul Graham‘s articles ‘Hiring is Obsolete‘ where he mentions that: There might be 500 startups right now who think they’re making something Microsoft might buy. Than I thought that if Microsoft is to buy Red Hat, there will … Continue reading Should Microsoft buy Red Hat?
It’s been a while since I checked uptime on few servers that I manage at work. And by “a while” I mean “a while“. Here are five records for you to be impressed. ldap-master – this server has a pretty easy life. It is a master node of our internal LDAP cluster. All it has … Continue reading Uptime records
I wanted to see “Kinsey” for some time now. I heard that it was a movie about a scientist who did the biggest study of human sexuality back in the middle of the last century. The study was so huge and complete that it is often found in the use even these days. Directed by: … Continue reading Kinsey