amptorn

> "your code should read like well-written prose."

This is a good assertion but ironically it's not Bob Martin's line. He was quoting Grady Booch.

It's reasonable to evaluate the usefulness of a system by weighing the resources it consumes against the valuable output it produces. In Bitcoin's case the valuable output is around 10 financial transactions per second, and the resource it consumes is enough energy to power the Netherlands.

I like how this is so low-effort that it still says "@ Things Of Interest" despite not being hosted there?

No. It's right. If only S pieces are provided, you can make lines for ever. If S and Z pieces are provided, you can't.

> will probably always need to fix.

Quitter.

Henrietta Lacks and Lena Forsén are/were different people.

Why is that worth pointing out?

You should be tipping triple right now, rich boy.

It's actually 65,792 code points total: 65,536 plus 256 for "padding" characters if the input has an odd number of octets.

What if you're working in a domain which does evolve? For example, every domain.

Well, railroads still exist.

> ( ) they tried that in France once and it didn't take

> - Confusing: google.golang.org/protobuf@v1 doesn't exist, but v2 does.

This would not be confusing at all. The UUID package I use just skipped from major version 3 to major version 7 to avoid confusion with UUIDv4, UUIDv5 and a possibe UUIDv6. It was well-documented, and even if it wasn't, the upgrade was absolutely painless, as it would have been either way.

Other than sorting by birth date, what's your intended solution to this?

Realistically, this is for fun and games. Nobody should actually be asking you trick questions in a real scenario. It's okay not to be able to catch the trick.

Are you saying that he did not have an intended solution to the problem?

The even perfect numbers all have the formula

    2^(p - 1)(2^p - 1)

for some prime `p`. In code that's

    ((1 << p) - 1) << (p - 1)

for `p` = 2, 3, 5, 7 and 13, which is why you're seeing that interesting pattern of bits.

(There are no odd perfect numbers in the range under consideration.)

It's a pretty good name I think!

Productivity is just value you create for people who aren't you. Family, friends and travelling is value you create for yourself.

Yeah, the correct phrasing of that question is "Show me the place where I'll be working." They should be able to lead you down the corridor and show you potential future co-workers at work.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to hold off on the first announcement until there was consensus on a single new name, instead of having two or three inconsistent namesoperating simultaneously for a year? Neither of which might be the final one?

They renamed Perl 6 to "Raku" last year!! Am I losing my mind? This is a done deal! https://marketing.perl6.org/id/1541379592/pdf_digital

The important things that self-driving cars can't do aren't freak occurrences. They're elementary things like responding correctly to hand signals from someone directing traffic, or reading and obeying street signs written in plain English.

What privacy and security attributes does WebAssembly have over a plain old web page?

If Perl 6, by this essay's own admission, has no target demographic and no niche, then who is this essay even aimed at? Who are we attempting to convince?

> rot13 isn't defined outside of a certain set

Ah, so, when you said "øbol comes through as øoby" you were saying that this is the correct behaviour?

This is a classic entry-level security mistake. You have to pick a work factor k and then do 2^k iterations of ROT13.

Just out of curiosity, what would you expect ø to encode to?

Inventing manned flight without anybody dying would have been completely possible. Use more caution, pay more attention to safety. But that's not the right hypothetical. This is inventing manned flight without endangering or killing innocent bystanders.

That's like the dictionary definition of "exploitation".