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• your secret is safe with us (Score:2)

  by nicholas (3034)

  two people that will read this, both directed here by me

  Sssh. Don't tell anyone that there is a list of recent journal entries on the front page of use.perl
  • Re:your secret is safe with us (Score:1)

    by kudra (4364)

    I knew that, I just didn't think anyone would follow the link. Probably you didn't yet know what a dull posting it was.
• Directed (Score:1)

  by chromatic (983)

  Yes, share more of your opinions with the world! For example, how is your quest to improve the testing capabilities of your colleagues?
  • Re:Directed (Score:1)

    by kudra (4364)

    We're currently in the process of trying to come up with a style guide.

    But one should never talk about work in a public place where the people you work with may read it ;)
• Mushrooming (Score:1)

  by VSarkiss (704)

  where 'wider audience' means the two people that will read this

  The number is growing by the minute [perl.org] ;-).
• Well, as long as you're sharing... (Score:1)

  by wnodom (2030)

  I'd really like to know what you think of the effects of three field crop rotation on medieval society.

  :)
  • Re:Well, as long as you're sharing... (Score:1)

    by kudra (4364)

    Three field crop rotation was a great boon on medieval food production. Like the invention of the heavier plow for more northern climes, the discovery that crops such as alfalfa could be used to enrich the soil and increase production was an invention easy to underestimate today, when food is in abundance (even if it is poorly distributed).

    In the WWII, British farmers considered cultivating higher in the hills, but abandoned the locations after realizing that the yield was too low to sustain life. Yet at