lilSebastian

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028581

Third time this has been posted in 17 hours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21931895

> Any Linux phone is going to be expensive vs. an Android phone

$150 is fairly comparable

https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limit...

Where did I say this was Amazon's problem?

A traditional method used was to send two very small random payments, say 0.03 and 0.09 to the card in question, then ask the caller to confirm the payment details, how much etc, once they'd arrived. If they could provide these details that is pretty much as far as they can go in terms of verification.

I never cease to be amazed that people buy into obvious snake oil, it has been rife in tech since the beginning.

Why have so many threads discussing this issue been removed from this site today?

Looking at the guidelines, many of the posts I replied to are breaking these rules, yet haven't been flagged.

An attempt to justify their rant with 1990s era perl examples

You don't have to use either of these. Was the last time you used perl in the late 1990s?

> Not particularly since you seem very combative

Asking people to back up what they say is 'combative'? Nothing else in this post has a ring of truth either

That would only further confusion

This one goes to 11

http://perl11.org/

> Most of the anti-Perl comments I've heard have been from people who really didn't know it very well, if at all.

Indeed, I hope this thread gets picked up by http://n-gate.com/

Mojo makes all web based work almost effortless. Many thanks to you and the other contributors

> That's just a saying, it doesn't mean that there's one specific reason

> a reason

Singular, in English that means there's a single reason.

> I think there are plenty of reasons, and they work to reinforce each other

Care to expand on this?

Genuinely interesting, a thread where people complain about a language and they are so careless with the language they use to try and get their point across...

See the section about waiting for perl 6 before doing more work...

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-ren...

> Sure but there's a reason that development has moved off of Perl.

Why don't you specify this single reason you allude to?

Not complete but enough to get the context

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-ren...

> The language is terse

Only if you chose to write perl code in this way. The same could be said for many languages

> FWIW: I'm unclear why people continue to use Perl at all

Great language, large library on cpan, great eco system, people enjoy using it, they have a large code base that's run fine for decades. Choose 1 or more.

> I moved on in 2011

You're right, it's all about you and what you do...

Terrible developers, poor framework and design choices.

> Great write-up!

It's an awful post, it would take less time to point out what is correct than highlight all the mistakes.