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"Perl 6 Developers will attempt to make a development release of Version 1.0"

We are upvoting non-news? It'll be a great announcement if they ship it, but it's just hype now. Also, consider all they are announcing is a version for developers.
People can say that as much as they like, calling the thing that comes after Perl 5 "Perl 6" certainly SOUNDS like a version number, and the reason it sounds like it's supposed to be a new version of Perl is because once upon a time it was going to be.
Yeah I agree, most queries can be done without using CTEs, but some problems can hardly be solved without them. I'm thinking e.g. of finding paths in a graph or querying highly hierarchical data in an efficient way.
This is one of my favorite (if not my absolute favorite) computer history lectures. It's pretty ironic watching all the anti-government comments on this site while most people here are ignorant about where Silicon Valley came from. See, for example, the comments on this thread currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8978922 or this out-of-context rando: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8980306

Know your history! Check out more videos like this at the Computer History Museum. If you're looking for a great followup, check out this Q&A with Dan Kaufman of DARPA that talks about some of their current technology investments (kind of a "where are they now" compared to Steve Blank's lecture):

* https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory/videos?flow=gri...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny6xDCFU4nI
Looks like a pull request to fix that has been submitted and it's a naming convention in golang.

https://github.com/cdarwin/go-koans/pull/9
> There's a macro called "try!(e)", which, if e returns a None value, returns from the enclosing function via a return you can't see in the source code. Such hidden returns are troubling.

Strikes me as simply a very appropriate use of macros. Get tired of writing the same syntactic fragment again and again? Write a macro. Want to see what some macro is "hiding"? Look it up or expand it.
The U.S. is known as a low tax regime? They have among the highest corporate taxes in the world. Taxation as a percentage of GDP is not a good measure because that doesn't address the tax burden as a percentage of income, but as a percentage of GDP. That also doesn't measure the value received for the tax burden endured. As an extreme example, if you are receiving value from those taxes (perhaps education or public transport,) then you would pay less out of pocket for those services. However if you had a low tax rate but we're required to pay for everything directly (such as paying for education,) then the real value of those taxes to the citizen is much less. So at the end of the day, you may pay lower tax, but you spend more because those taxes aren't delivering value. The raw ratio is meaningless; the value derived per dollar is much more meaningful.

And yes, the Baltics do have a bad ratio of taxes collected, versus value received.
Have you been checking it out at all again, or are you considering it? It's been my secret hope for a long time that you would get involved again, if not at the compiler level then at the community and ecosystem level. Your blog[1] was always insightful and a good read, and I think the community is worse without it being active. I'm talking about Perl 6 here, but I could say the same for Perl 5 and it would be at least as true.

1: http://modernperlbooks.com/
For me, Facebook = distant relatives.

That's it.

Todo: Get extended family on email list and delete Facebook.
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This is awesome! I'll definitely try to use it and make some Vim tutorials.
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Security and better performance on cheap hardware are two reasons I turn it off by default and only enable it when I really need it.
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What I meant, and what I think Michael O. Church meant, was more that VC money doesn't come strictly from the VCs themselves. In most (nearly all?) cases, there are a number of LPs whose money the VCs are investing, and the VCs invest relatively little of their own money in each investment.

It's also worth noting that the vast majority of VC firms are not KPCB or Sequoia or one of the other "name-brand" VC firms, and that most entrepreneurs who receive funding will not do so through one of these firms either.

And while it's probably true that most VC money is not from pension funds, much of it is institutional in origin (incl. state pension funds), just as much of hedge fund money is institutional, and the VCs themselves take on limited risk, since they typically get a management fee, and then some sort of performance fee as well, while risking relatively little of their own capital (2 and 20 is common among VCs as well as among hedge funds). The underperformance of VC as an asset class is well documented as well.

This paper [1], which is the Kauffman foundation's assessment of the performance of its VC related investments, describes in detail the VC industry as it currently functions. I think you'll find that it is closer to the way Michael O. Church describes it, than to your conception of it. Everyone considering a startup should at least read the executive summary.

[1]: http://www.kauffman.org/~/media/kauffman_org/research%20repo...
Banks do take the loss via bankruptcy, or people just not repaying. If the banks had lobbied the government to repay these debts with taxpayer money, I would agree that this was trying to eat their cake and have it. But the government's actions go too far in the other direction. They impose a loss on the banks that the banks would never have expected or priced in.
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Steve, what's the reason that Rust doesn't have HKTs (higher-kinded types). Is there a technical barrier, e.g. to do with life-time inference, or is it a philosophical choice not to have them?
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> It might be instructive to look at how AOL lost out to the larger web

FB just hit 1.23 billion monthly actives.
AOL peaked at ~26 million [US] subscribers.
FB's network effect is much stronger than AOL ever had.

Also, AOL was heavily dialup-based. Independent ISPs offered broadband at better prices, just as the open web was becoming rich with content. That lured away a lot of AOL customers.
Great ideas.

(1) I will add in the functionality to show nearby hospitals without average wait times. It seems easy enough and very useful without search functionality. FWIW, if the government doesn't report wait times, I default to the average ER wait time for your state. If there is no average ER wait time for your state, then I use the national ER wait time reported by the gov. May I ask where in the country you are located?

One thing to note, I explicitly query for hospitals within a 10 mile radius. I figure if it's more than 10 miles out, it's probably not worth the drive. Maybe I should rethink that assumption...

(2) The search functionality is definitely coming in an update. I've heard that it would be useful from numerous people.
You do realize that brand likes are public, right?
Yeah, it's unclear what he's talking about there. Normally when a function allocates a new object, it would want to return it by move (transferring ownership), rather than by reference. That doesn't involve any lifetimes.

fn make_a_foo() -> Box<Foo> {
Box::new(Foo { a: 5 })
}

If the function allocated memory and only returned a borrowed reference, who would be responsible for freeing it? Yes, Rust will make you stop and think there, as it enforces memory safety.

In cases where it does make sense to return a reference to a new object, like allocating from an arena, the lifetime ('a) of the returned reference will be the same as the lifetime of the arena.

fn new_from_arena<'a>(arena: &'a TypedArena<Foo>) -> &'a mut Foo {
arena.alloc(Foo { a: 5 })
}

But Rust can infer the lifetime, so that can be shortened to:

fn new_from_arena(arena: &TypedArena<Foo>) -> &mut Foo {
arena.alloc(Foo { a: 5 })
}
The new VM seems to be a good foundation, hopefully the Whipuptitude and Manipulexity can be made performant in high-use operations.
I'm interested in why you removed "stagnate and die" from that quote.

The problem I described is when people actually prefer to kill a project through stagnation than to help it move forward - often by active resistance to any real change. Living projects periodically change. Even goals like improving speed often require redesigns and replacements of old components. When the process of change and renewal is shut down or nobody contributes to it, everyone starts wandering off and the project dies.

I'm not a developer of Perl. I'm sure all your input was appreciated by someone. It's a personal decision whether you want to keep putting in that effort, or switch to other tools. I just don't see any sense in attacking Perl 6 any more.
I've done work for the Chilean Avocado Importers Association[1]. One of their selling points is being in the Southern Hemisphere, they're counter-seasonal to North American avos and so sourcing from both gives retailers a year-round supply.

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The canonical Go style eschews underscores in package names.
I am inclined to believe that discipline has mostly to do with distractions in life. The older generation of people were the most disciplined, and they had less distractions.

Just a quick thought on reading only the headline.
I'm developing something in the ER space, also in LA, will reach out via linkedin
The economic gain of writing off this kind of debt has to be balanced against the moral hazard effect on future borrowers.

Also, it's not clear that you are correct that this debt was largely written off. Certainly the banks didn't expect 100% recovery, but perhaps they expected a nontrivial amount.

I'm not an expert in these tradeoffs, but the one economist interviewed in the article said:
I am not sure that this is the best way to help low-income people. If lenders think this can happen again they will charge very high interest rates to low-income borrowers
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It's one of our most requested features (and would be really good for collections) but it should be backwards compatible and therefore was postponed until after 1.0.

Nobody has put in the work to actually make a formal RFC yet either, which is required.
The Poor Man's Streaming Setup
Hmm, this is a tough one. Given that it's just a different visualization on publicly accessible data, does the app have to safeguard against this in a special way? I used a disclaimer in the app, and went into detail in the privacy policy about how the app claims no responsibility to how the data is used. Do you have any suggestions as to a good way to handle these types of situations in general?
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I imagine the use would be, for the caregiver of a medically sensitive individual, to familiarize oneself with a new local area on arrival rather than waiting for an emergency situation.

For example: You've arrived in a new city. Open the app, see locations for ERs. Drive to each and familiarize yourself with the surroundings.
downvotes? Really?

Using the one really good thing Facebook gave the world, namely react.js et.al., to improve the interface of an interesting social network alternative does not ring a bell?
Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Amazon?
This was a very fun story to go through! I wonder if this format could be used as an effective way of structuring lessons in school. Each juncture that requires a choice to be made would (ideally) encourage class participation and debate. After a period of discussion, a vote would be taken, a decision would then be made, and the next section of the lesson would begin.

I'm not a teacher, and I know from friends who are that being a good teacher is harder than what I can probably imagine, but I think kids would have fun working through these types of stories.
I'd travel the hell out around the world, then start a company with (most likely) better human skills and start a family with amazing stories to tell my kids when they grow up.
You are right, but in comparison to European countries, U.S. taxes are low. There's only one European country (Lithuania) where tax per GDP is clearly lower than U.S.

E.g. in Scandinavia, the horrors of U.S. are attributed to its "extremy low" tax status. Horrors like that rich people only live in compounds surrounded by walls and armed guards, and the poor are dying because of no health care and no food, and the middle class does not exist. Yes, I know it sounds rather extreme but this is common rhetoric in countries where the tax rates are >40%.

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I find the Hass ones to be vastly more flavorful than the big green ones we have here all over Florida.
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$31M is such a drop in the ocean of debt, that overall the effect should be near nil.
But individually, if the interest payments make up a significant part of your budget, this is a very helpful.
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>>"most of the other languages were modeled on it."

>Having a regexp library is hardly "modeling a language on Perl".

I don't know about most, but both PHP and Ruby were heavily influenced by Perl. If you've used both, this should be apparent, if not, you can easily find references on record to the effect. The original statement may have been a bit hyperbolic, but in context and with constraints something similar isn't unwarranted. E.g. "Perl was very influential to many of the most popular scripting languages today."
No.

I guess advertising the locations of hospitals and what hours they are open could be less fraught than advertising emergency rooms, but I'm not a lawyer.
Others have pointed out some of the flaws in this reasoning, but I want go over some of the obvious critiques again:

1 & 2) There will be no "full stop" on lending money to poor people. If you're a bank and you're managing say $1B, some percentage of that is allocated to high risk loans. Your job is to make money from lending money, and there are only so many borrowers. Banks don't lend money to poor people out of altruism, but because they have to make enough money from interest to at least beat inflation. They'll continue to make high risk loans until they have some new pool of borrowers to replace them, albeit at higher interest rates now.

Most of the people relieved by this cancellation didn't have a very good chance of being approved for a loan anyway. Now their chances will be somewhat reduced, but not completely eliminated.

3) The $31MM didn't disappear, it was effectively removed from the balance sheets of the debtors. If some of them eventually get jobs and build assets, that money will reappear in the economy but be distributed to different businesses. Instead of the banks receiving that $31MM from their paychecks, they'll spend it on food or gas or whatever. Probably still a net loss, but not of the whole $31MM and instead some fraction of it.

4) The concept of moral hazard is a real thing, but it's effects on any given economy vary wildly. In general, most people don't think "Well the government bailed us out once, so I'll borrow way more than I can afford and just hope that they do it again.". It's possible and I can understand why someone would believe it to be a problem, but it's far from being a law of physics or even economics.

In short, the Croatian government and their finance ministers/advisers probably aren't stupid. They have actual data and a knowledge of their own people and situation to go on. They aren't just playing armchair economist. And though I couldn't name one of them, I'm willing to bet that they thought this move through. Doesn't mean that there won't be any of the dire consequences that you've predicted here, but they've probably weighed the odds more carefully than you think.
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> and fairly expensive in pure form (or even as 100% juice)

$13.00 for 1 litre Pom brand here in my region of SE Canada. I bought some on sale yesterday for $7.99

I think the big jump in price due to demand after studies may have shown pomegranate juice may have properties which reduces arterial plaque, may! http://i.imgur.com/OPTogVl.jpg?1

And oddly enough I also bought some avocados for the first time ever too.
What hurts people the most is VAT (Value-added tax), and Croatia has one of the highest VATs of all the EU countries [1].

The US doesn't have a VAT, but it does have a sales tax, which is pretty low compared to VAT in most European countries[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax#EU_countries

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_State...
Actually this is a good example. You should not have apache configuration in your .htaccess file. It should be in the actual apache config.
What was the ethnic group he said he wouldn't pick up?
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'package koans' is simpler and more idiomatic of Go.
How do you think they process your voice to figure out what you said?

I get privacy-conscious people wanting to avoid leaking personal information, but I don't get those same people wanting personally-relevant services without providing that information.