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That makes no difference, on purpose or not. The point is "denigrating serious matters"...

That is the difference, that you were "denegrating", and jdavidb was using hyperbole to give an exaggerated example of the same thing.

...ignore the lack of proper multithreading ...

Did I mention multithreading? Or whether or not I've been ignoring it? .oO(Where's the *plonk* button?)

s/Aristotle/jdavidb/

...making the exact same mistake yourself!

Umm, except Aristotle made the exact same mistake (actually, an even "bigger" mistake) on purpose. If you missed that, there's really no point in further discussion.

You'd think that the "my" would be a clue that you intended to do it that way. And a my $foo == ... in an if statement would be a red flag.

I've been using Gearman a lot lately with Gearman::XS. In an effort to reduce boilerplate, I've released GearmanX::Starter to launch Gearman workers.

I wasn't aware of some of these modules...I may make use of them eventually.

It might be nice if you labeled the intervals with the relevant pair of notes, and cool if you could label them with interval names (e.g. minor third, fifth, etc.). A long decimal number as an interval doesn't really say anything meaningful to me...

That is cool. I was used to calling them analytic functions from Oracle, and googling for "analytic functions" and PostgreSQL only brought up posts from people wanting them in PostgreSQL. Now that I know that they're "window functions" they're easy to find:
Window Functions

I haven't seen any recipe posts for quite a while (perhaps for good reason), so I'll go ahead and break that streak.

I use this mapping from VIM Tips:

map <C-J> <C-W>j<C-W>_
map <C-K> <C-W>k<C-W>_

I once looked into getting FB installed on Windows...I didn't have the time, and never got back to it, and the FB maintainers seemed to have no interest in making it easy to install on Win32.

As for doing the impossible (a little OT), I really like the way perl tends to let you do that. Several times people think I'm kidding when I suggest spending a few minutes or so writing something in perl rather than several hours/days doing something manually (even to supposed developers/programmers who should know better).

I did not know about freedb.org. I've been converting vinyl and putting 01SongTitle1, 02SongTitle2 in the label track marks, and exporting to files based on those names. I did find that I couldn't type "z" in the label text though (??). So no songs with a "z" in them for me :-) (I've really just been using an "s" instead).

I just did a search on freedb for the last record I converted, and didn't find it. I didn't even find the artist at first, 'cuz I was looking for "Pearl Harbour and the Explosions", and I accidentally typed "Perl"...go figure :-)

Actually a lot of what I'm converting I'm not finding on freedb...maybe I should whip up some perl to submit data...

IRC blocked at work... :-(

I did enter an RT ticket on the PPM distribution though.

I went ahead and just copied the relevant lib files and folders from the ActiveState perl directory into the strawberry directory...yeah, I'm kind of defeating the purpose of strawberry...but it worked :-)

Hey, whaddya know, it works. Now, since I don't have Oracle OCI libraries, but I need DBD::Oracle, I'm trying:

C:\>ppm install DBD-Oracle
PPM::XML::PPMConfig::PPMCONFIG=HASH(0x1731e4c)
Installing package 'DBD-Oracle'...
PPM::XML::PPD::html=HASH(0x18be9fc)
Can't locate object method "rvalidate" via package "PPM::XML::PPD::html" at C:/s
trawberry/perl/site/lib/PPM.pm line 1688.

I should probably find out where the real support forum is rather than reporting problems/bugs on my journal :-) (ahh, probably over on rt.cpan.org)

I'd really like to try out Strawberry Perl, but it'll have to wait 'till I get around to installing it at home, where I do a lot less perl than at work. 'Cuz you need admin rights to install strawberry, and they don't hand that out for work laptops.