rabbits77
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, to be fair it reads more like he can go back to school after a one year suspension. Not totally "kicked out".
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, it should not be crazy to see that a website started by people like Paul Graham and Sam Altman would naturally be full of hyped up VC nonsense. Their entire business model is to hype up these ideas and the startups working on them and then cash out!
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes! It’s sad how ignorant of IBM and US technology industry history some of these comments are. Then again, I suppose every generation does a lot of its own “this time we’re different” myth making. Not everyone has the wisdom to see the broader context.
Comment · 2 years ago
I recently left a job at a very different large company with a similar timeframe (a little under ten years). Pretty much everything this author states is related to my experience.
There is nothing all that special about Google. Maybe there was twenty years ago, but that ship has long since sailed. It’s just another large US tech company. Like Microsoft and IBM before it.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've used www.firstrade.com for decades now. Not a well known name, but extraordinarily reliable.
Comment · 2 years ago
the article states this person is walking in commercial area. that is what is creating the liminal space. she’s not strolling through the woods. she’s basically just bothered that her neighborhood isn’t gentrified enough yet.
Comment · 2 years ago
There's a bit of contradiction in the article. The main objection is the author's feeling of uneasiness in open spaces. "liminal spaces" created by, for example, large parking lots. The author then complains that these wide open spaces are not "walkable". What? They are certainly walkable by their very design! What they are not, it seems is the real objection, are cozy spaces lined with tacqueiras and coffee shops.
Comment · 2 years ago
This article predates the resignation of SawyerX (due to a lot of the abuse and misery heaped on him), who was the Perl release manager (aka "Pumpking") that was in charge of Perl 7.
The short version of it was that there was a bit of a power play by people who felt ignored and wanted a bigger part of what was felt to be an important development.
SawyerX goes into his a bit in a talk from 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1H9yKf8BI0
This has resulted in a new (2024) code of conduct so that leadership can proceed without the previous sorts of verbal assaults effecting things again. https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/new-standaards-of-condu...
Comment · 2 years ago
I'd say you're being a bit overly cynical. There's plenty of good news in Perl too. specifically, since you mentioned smartmatch, that's been pretty well fixed as of a couple of weeks ago with Switch::Right https://metacpan.org/dist/Switch-Right.
As is tradition this was the subject of a very engaging talk at the most recent TPRC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x9LD8oOmv0
Comment · 2 years ago
I have a Gemini too! I still use it sometimes, I just open Termux and use it as a highly portable scratch pad for working on small coding projects.
I wish that the handheld form factor had more options, but it seems that market is just too niche and otherwise dominated by tablets and phones.
Comment · 2 years ago
No, it's the very definition of being able to generalize.
For fractals you’ll want to be able to recognize and generate the structures. It’s a great use case for Definite Clause Grammars (DCGs). A perfect example of this would be Triska’s Dragon Curve implementation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMdiPC1ZckI