ν42 - nu42.com Table of Contents for 2013

December

• Happiness is … making the most of limited resources

November

• Are Perl users unable to write programs more accurately than those using a language designed by chance?

October

• Build your own health insurance plan previewer!
• YAPC::NA 2013 Perl’s Diaspora by Liz
• Upgrading to OS X Mavericks broke my MacPorts
• Help Fund Perl Nerd Merit Badges
• YAPC::NA 2012 - CHI: Universal caching for Perl‎
• Comma quibbling in Perl
• About those “glitches” on Health Insurance Marketplaces

September

• Trying new things with little risk
• Apparently, today is programmers’ day …

August

• Use Perl to generate random project names
• Lazy lists are good
• A note on stats and probability
• Don’t rush to love the ugly duckling
• Sometimes, ugly solutions work better
• Hey smarty, use Dumbbench when benchmarking Perl code
• Regarding a note on optimization in Perl in perlperf
• Read select lines from a file using Perl

May

• A soft spot in my heart for Linode
• Merging two arrays of integers in C
• Do newlines really present a problem in AngularJS?

April

• Randomly and non-destructively pick two items without replacement from an array
• Linode disappoints …
• Linode doesn’t disappoint … again
• Linode, please don’t stop messing with my uptime!
• Translation of programming terms and software menus considered harmful

March

• Creating a matrix of random entries where lengths of the columns are also random
• How can I retrieve content from a URL in C?
• Why I wouldn’t use Dropbox

February

• Mid 2010 MacBook Pro 7,1 with 16 GB DDR3 1333 (PC3-10600) RAM
• Splitting long lines is slow
• Large gzipped files, long lines, extracting columns etc

January

• Does a “smart” TV user need multi-line input?