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GNU APL is unusually polished considering how obscure it is. When I was first looking for a free APL implementation some years ago, it took me quite a while to find it via search engines. It also doesn't seem like it's very visible in the APL community itself.

In fact, my only criticism is that it is a bit awkward to write simple Unix-style programs. The APL interpreter quite resisted being used in batch mode, and needed special flags to avoid launching background daemons or being chatty on the standard output streams. That was a few years ago, though - I wonder if it's been fixed.

Edit: looks like the search engines are much more favourable to GNU APL nowadays.
> If you work in a job that forces the use of a less powerful language than what you've been exposed to, you can, I think, go through a sort of depression. You simply long to use the tools that you know hold much more power yet must resign yourself to the tools you have.

I was forced to use go for a job, it actually made me feel stupider, so much that I didn't know how to use the right types anymore when i moved back to a more sophisticated language. I was afraid the language wouldn't let me do what I want, just like Go.

There will be a "go programmer generation" and it's not going to be pretty. If people deem "generics too complicated to understand", what can you expect from programmers who don't want to learn anything? The only thing I find nice about the language is implicit interfaces. But not at all cost.
Well, maybe, but it's physically impossible (or at least improbable) for all possible chess games to occur within the physical universe.
I like the idea of (b) a lot more.

It's a nice idea - but anyone who believes citizens should be making such donations is surely already making them - and yet our problems still exist. Doesn't that rather imply the average person isn't as charitable as would be needed?
> The whole point of existence of a nation-state is that it can improve overall quality of life and security because it redirects and pools financing around and creates environment on which your Frankfurt can "finance itself". Again, without those people that "can't finance themselves", you have little economy and customers to run your market-based economy to finance yourself.

I think you are just plain wrong here. Frankfurt would do just fine without Berlin. Your points would make sense for the state of Hesse, where Frankfurt is the main source of income, while others have negative budget. But there the relationship you described, is indeed true: People are commuting to Frankfurt, that is why all the taxes are getting paid there. If not for the rural parts of Hesse, Frankfurt would look different.

Berlin on the other hand does not really benefit Frankfurt at all, from a tax point of view. In the contrary: If Berlin wasn't there, maybe Frankfurt would be the capital of Germany.

Germany is a nation-state, but also a federal nation-state. The whole point of federalism is, that each entity can decide, what quality of live means for them and what they want to do culturally. It also means, that these entities are responsible for collecting their own taxes and paying for their stuff.

Thankfully, German states are soon constitutionally mandated to have a balanced budget, so this will end.
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If I look around me, a significant percentage of people's income is already going into housing, healthcare and taxes.

The money that is left is used to buy some Ikea furniture, pacifiers^Wgadgets like phones and TVs and perhaps a vacation once a year.

In other words, just enough disposable income so that people don't revolt.

How can there be an efficient and actually free market for housing? At the very least, people should be allowed to build slums, otherwise they do not have any leverage to drive prices down by opting out of an overpriced market.
Don't tell me your default method for deleting files is to carelessly throw 'rm -rf' at the issue...if it's "important" and you're using -rf, a part of me thinks "you deserve whatever happens"
They cite ornithologists, biologists, archiologists -- and the worst off are chess players? No, the worst off are hackers who will cringe at almost any movie today.

Probably our consulting fee is just too high for Hollywood.
> When I later came home, I went to see a GP

Was this in England?
Two thumbs up... I saw that Weekend Update as well.
Both plain doc and rtf are way better than docx in portability, docx is a disaster.
To be fair, all things considered, if you have to learn either language from scratch from a native language that has no link[1] whatsoever to it, I think English is harder than Japanese.

1. by which I mean, in the case of English, for example, if your native language is not french, german, etc.

In fact, I think English is harder to learn for Japanese native speakers than Japanese for English native speakers.
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I get that, but I think that convenience comes with a price: Missin gout on great music. Now or in the future.

While I consider myself an enthusiast, I understand that people have different priorities and for many music may not be that important, but Spotify's library is anything but unlimited - there's just too much music not available on any streaming service. And more importantly you can lose access to music at any time - licensing deals end, labels and artists change their mind and suddenly your favorite album is gone. Netflix knows a thing or two about that.

Renting music is not an option for me. While I use Spotify as a preview platform and for minor discovery (though it's mediocre for that), I prefer to buy and own my music losslessly.
Jaw dropped. This is exactly what I needed to get some progress with my shader learning :)
Selling your company definitely has a certain Darth Vader feel to it. The buyer usually alters the deal, and the only thing you can pray for is them not altering it any further.
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Natural numbers need not be in scope of intuition. Imagine a diffuse intelligence formed in a fluid (such a thing is at least imaginable), it has no fingers, it recognises no individual things, not even itself, it has no intuition of the natural numbers. If this being makes statement on arithmetic, like 1+1=2, according to you this statement is not "meaningfully true". Yet it is true, and this being has derived it from (abstract) thought. So what is "meaningfully true"?
Like the most amazing quake port ever? :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMli33ornEU
It's not just atrocious design. It's also a supervisory board that managed to change the plans so often it confused everyone (leading to bad planning) and a bureaucracy that didn't actually check if contractors did what they were supposed to do.

I think the final blame lies with the SPD politicians that have effectively been in charge of this. The buck stops at the top. Sure, a lot of heads have rolled, but it seems like the Berlin SPD's culture isn't compatible with managing this kind of thing. I mean, when Wowereit was pushed if they could have razed the airport, started from scratch and executed as originally planned that would still have been cheaper than the current situation. This clearly indicates that the people in charge kept fucking up long after Wowereit and perhaps they are still doing so. Why the fuck does the federal government (which pays for part of it) go along with this?
I advise extreme caution when going down this path... it's rife with established lines of pseudoscientific thought. For example, a couple centuries ago you could talk about how English just isn't complex enough to express great ideas the way Latin and Greek are.

Ambiguity is an orthogonal concept to morphological typology, however. There is no extra "nuance of expression" just because you conjugate words more, that's just nonsense.
Most people never get to speak directly to the leaders of their countries, I strongly doubt that leaders knowing sign language would make much of a difference. And it's not like there exists an insurmountable communication barrier today; the deaf can send an email as well as anyone.
>Will the new oil pipe under a lake hurt the environment?
>Is the new calendar reform idea wonderful or terrible?

Wikipedia is not supposed to give you the true truth on everything a "fact" would be "oil pipes in the past had frequent leak that damaged the environment", "This oil pipe was described as vital by various industries^[1]" or "scientific research raised many environmental concern over this oil pipe"

In a sourced encyclopedia "facts" means something you can refer to and (at your choice) distrust

(sorry if rude, not so well versed in english)
I would blame biology. People want to live in cities, I moved into a city myself. Economically, this is just a fact, you cannot really complain about.

You have to build housing to handle the stream of new people and try to avoid empty apartments. In my city, buildings are being build, sure it can always be faster, but there are already whole new districts being build from scratch.
Allendoerfer's point was that West Germany did well during the D-Mark times, so it is unfair to attribute Germany's economic success entirely to a low Euro.

You have a point about Frankfurt's income sources of course, but they apply to any financial metropole.
Most important for what? For speaking about linguistics, maybe. But if you are using the language to communicate, there is no most important single thing to "learn", since using the language to communicate means that you are using the language in a way that resembles a skill, and the language grows in your brain as an implicit system – you acquire it bit-by-bit, but the internal system doing the acquiring doesn't care what counts as "grammar" and what counts as "lexicon". You can teach yourself rules, but that doesn't mean that you are able to use them spontaneously.

TL;DR: knowledge about language is different from skill of communicating in language.
There is also a misconception of what "nature" is. Mega-city-dwellers going for a walk to a park and throwing their empty-soda-can in a bin, think they are "doing nature good".

If they take a step back and look around they will notice that this human-made "nature" which consumes massive amounts of water, to sustain the defined/controlled (human-made) beauty, and think to themselves "oh nature is perfect, oh how well I am protecting it!".

I don't know many city-dwellers that actually go for a hike on a real mountain to be in/with nature (and not some 5-star-hotel-private-beach or human-made green path).
I turned my back on academia because in my eyes, it seems to be very toxic towards playful exploration of mathematical or other scientific topics. Often, you are forced into working on one particular issue, whereas exploring maths is more like jumping from island to island where each one of them contains secrets, and it definitely makes sense to follow the path wherever it takes you. The structure is too rigid, every step needs justification. How can you justify playing around with numbers and formulas, sometimes a bit aimlessly, when you're in pursuit of a proof? And then you have so much overhead because you have to document it all. Documentation makes sense, but let it be terse. And then, of course, there is the pressure to achieve when hard work is only one part of the equation, the other part being that ideas are essentially 'god given' and come randomly. Thanks but no thanks.
One of the reasons there still exists some affordable housing in Munich is that the city builds housing itself and rents it out at affordable prices. While other cities sold their housing in the 90s/2000s - because privatization is king, free market loves you, and so on - Munich didn't do any of that, because we recognized that people which don't earn high wages are needed in a city, too. Housing market is still tough, but without any public housing it would be far worse.

Long story short: If Berlin acknowledges that a city cannot exist without affordable housing I'm all for it. There are far worse investments of tax money.
>Also your rules don't really work. "tanoshii" => "tanoshiideshita"?

I learned this quite early on, but I'm still a little confused for exactly when to conjugate desu instead.
Diversification perhaps? WEB clearly believes in the power of owning multiple businesses, perhaps he is just extrapolating from his own success that others are interested in following his lead?
The Total War games are still going strong.
Thank you for taking the time to look through the code.

1. Context matters: That's a CLI script used to build and sign core updates. We bundle it with the source code so anyone can fork our project and use only their own keys, easily.

2-4. This is a good point. https://github.com/paragonie/airship/issues/181

> Properly escaping SQL injection is great (and something PHP apps seem to have a continual problem with), but why did you decide to roll your own framework for doing this?

Because when Airship was started, everyone insisted on backwards compatibility for PHP 5 and I wanted to make use of strict typing. The master branch includes a static analyzer as part of continuous integration.

> Are all of the well maintained, tested and great ones already available not suitable for some reason?

Have you seen what I've done to PHP frameworks over the years?

https://scott.arciszewski.me/open-source/

https://paragonie.com/security/advisories

I wasn't in a hurry to pick up other peoples' technical debt, especially if we're paying money for vulnerabilities: https://hackerone.com/paragonie

5. That's simply a paranoia/convenience feature. If you've got a better way to automagically convert filename.txt into filename-5.txt if filename.txt, filename-2.txt, filename-3.txt, and filename-4.txt already exist, I'm all ears.

6-10. Good eye. I think that can be refactored to repeat itself less.

11. I don't see a problem with this?

12. I don't see a problem with this either.
|Not sure where that stands today.

Then why say anything? You're referencing an article from 2014, on howtogeek.
Thanks for linking this, it was quite an interesting lead.
>use as it doesn't force our users to upgrade to Windows 10 and opens the door for a single graphics API that could be used on all Windows 7, 8, 10 & Linux

Finally they're starting to get it.
But all politicians promise jobs - this is nothing new. Even Hillary promised jobs, she even had plans for it.

Promising jobs is not new.
That's a common question... and unfortunately the answer is that "watashi wa tabemasu" and "tabemasu" are absolutely different from each other and you can't just go around substituting one for the other. You also can't really translate the difference between the two of them, but in context, a good translation might be:

Watashi wa tabamasu. -> As for me, I'm eating.

Tabemasu. -> I'm eating.

It bears repeating: this depends on context. But you can see how "watashi wa" sticks out like a sore thumb, and you can instantly recognize novice Japanese second-language speakers because they say "watashi wa" all the time. And you'll later learn that "watashi" is sometimes an inappropriate way to refer to yourself...
The letter is dated August 2nd, 1939.
> With code generation I can program my types using the same language I use for code with less things to learn.

With code generation you are introducing your own compiler, DSL and all that bullshit that becomes yet another dependency you have to manage. That's busy work, that's bureaucracy, that's brittle. Now your codebase depends on pragma statements, manifests and obviously a specific syntax that aren't even managed by the default compiler, that's the opposite of simplicity.

At least C has standard macros, and most developers uses the same syntax for them.

Go is an extremely divisive language, a fact which will hinder its adoption as criticism of that language will get harsher since more people get exposed to it.

The good thing is, as Google relies more and more on Go, peer pressure from other googlers might force changes in the language.
I really enjoy making coding notes in org mode because you can do stuff like this. Be nice to see it come to the web.
> It's easy to fall in to the hole of imagining an accurate depiction is one in which everything is precise and correct.

Hmm, what do you mean? Isn't that the definition of accuracy?
IF you add this to the search results, you can choose some preset times to search (week/month/year).

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http://jwebnet.net/advancedgooglesearch.html

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>I do this all the time. Works OOTB on popular distros.

Debian doesn't connect with android phones OOTB. What's the opposite of FUD?
I typed -1 in factorial demo and script ended responding :)
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Or Swift - Swift sneaks in sum and product types via a c-structy syntax. Once you see the type system underneath the syntax (which was devised not to scare the Objective-C horses IIRC) it’s quite pleasant.
The entire idea that atomic bombs were ever manufactured, let alone used, is absolutely ludicrous. There have never been any atomic bombs deployed any more than men have walked in the moon. Just more pish-posh propaganda from the government.
Was Google Glass ever actually meant to be a big success in the short term?

It looks like typical Hen-Egg-Problem where you first have to build it in order for them to come (slowly). Then you have to wait it out until the actually useful applications arise from the dust.

While the smartphone has established its place in everyday life (after years and years of trying and mostly failing with similar approaches), the glass probably will be a tool for a thousand niche applications mostly in the corporate world who need a finished solution before they start acting.
What 'dchest said, but also:

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/10/guide-automatic-security-...

Security at the expense of usability, comes at the expense of security.

CMS Airship went with the "self-writing code" option because we believe the potential damage of a 1day vulnerability to be much a higher concern than theoretical "this isn't really following best practices grumble grumble".

By all means, don't chmod/chown anything, and run continuum.sh as a more privileged user if that's what you want.

Just don't disable automatic updates.
Benzos are only used for short-term treatment of anxiety. You get withdrawal symptoms after taking relatively small dosages for a few days. There are also many adverse effects like being unable to retain any new information. E.g. when I briefly took them, I was unable to memorize a 4-digit pin. I gave up after 15 minutes. I couldn't do it. It was terrifying.

Benzos are pretty terrible. That second doc did you a favor.

The only somewhat useful advice I have to offer is to quit smoking if you do smoke. Smoking increases the base anxiety level quite a bit.
Why back up my claims if you do it for me? :)

> Housing units, population, jobs, and desirability of the area is what drives housing unit prices.

Well, if anything is driving up population density, it's increasing the number of inhabitants per square meter, just like skyscrapers do.

The real strawman here is "But these cities still aren't building to the pace of their population growth."

If they were, what good does it do for anyone? It's putting more gasoline to the fire instead of letting it burn out. Any effect from building more housing has only short-term positive (and long-time negative) effects on gentrification if the original desirability of the area doesn't change.

The only proven ways to decrease desirability of the area are getting rid of the original jobs (like Detroit) or increasing prices to so absurd levels that people seriously question if they should go there (London, Bay Area).
I think there is almost always a part of you that knows, deep down, that you fallible. That is just from my personal experience contrasting myself as a younger person filled with hubris to my current self, though.
Something I like about the whole "verb at the end of the sentence" thing is that you can totally flip over the meaning of what you're saying, right at the end. In English, you can achieve the same effect with awkward forms (like "not" at the end of the sentence), but in Japanese, it's just the natural form.

Try to imagine the kind of snarks you could do if you could put things like "I don't reckon" on hold until the end of the sentence.

Sadly (ironically?), that tends not to be the kind of language subtlety/humor the Japanese go for.
Syntactically we might call "hayai" a verb, which would then be translated as "is fast" rather than just "fast". Semantically, it is an adjective.
My browser doesn't (yet) support web assembly.

Is there a reason you picked wasm_lua over (e.g.) lua.vm.js?
I am forced to use PHP at work. I hope that the stimulation I throw at my brain on lunch breaks and evenings offsets what you describe. Maybe it isn't enough and I'm on a long road down towards a point of no return.

That said if I look back on the past 6 months, I believe I have improved. In fact, a core principle I hold dear goes as follows:

"If I look back 6 months and I'm not any better, there's a big problem".

At one point, it seemed to annoy my non-technical boss because he couldn't understand why some of the code I wrote 6 months ago is perhaps not as good as it could be. He has kept me around so maybe it isn't a bad thing :)

We will, I think, always have programmers who don't want to learn anything new. It's interesting that there exists "Continuing Professional Development points" in the UK for healthcare: you get a rebate for each hour spent on courses to further your education. Maybe software engineering would benefit from this given the amount of, quite significant, cost sunk into large scale projects. Their universal credit programme should be incentive enough.

Entirely different problem though. If not Go, then what?
There is no evidence of efficacy of high dose opioids for long term pain.

https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-awar...

Self poisoning is a common method of suicide (second most common in the US) and opioid medication are the most common meds used.
> In the contrary: If Berlin wasn't there, maybe Frankfurt would be the capital of Germany.

Don't kid yourself. If it wasn't Berlin, it would be Bonn, Munich, Hamburg, or Cologne.

Berlin has the disadvantage of being separated and isolated for decades while Frankfurt has been able to exist in a world with a free market and heavy investments by the allied forces for more than 70 years. To blame Berlin for not becoming as rich as Frankfurt in about 25 years time is just stupid and ignorant.
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Flash won. The world of Internet development is slowly being remade in Flex's image.

That Adobe abandoned he technology rather that retooling it to target HTML5 is a strategic blunder up there with... I can't actually work out an equivalent.
I suspect having to pay for their own stuff would make Berlin's politics and administration better. There seems to be a bit of a "we can do whatever we want and someone else will pay for it" culture. Perhaps voters would punish the SPD for the BER disaster if money had to be taken from the BVG to fund it?
I didn't really answer you did I. I see it as a kind of insult. To get your clothes washed, you have to either be rude and feel like you might be turned away, or act humble and let someone unload their beliefs on you. Listening has a kind of psychological cost/effort. Offering someone who's desperate a free thing in exchange for their pride is a bit like bullying, but on a milder scale.
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Total War is a computer series of strategy games developed by The Creative Assembly. These combine turn-based strategy and resource management, with real-time tactical control of battles.

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