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This is a re-submission. Previous discussions: • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10812214 (368 comments) • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10757785 (2 comments) • https:/…

Lots of misunderstanding going on in the comments. Let me set your confusion right. w3id.org is basically the same as purl.org, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform…

A nice thought, but pointless. Failing tests do not matter to the PHP release managers, they ship it anyway. http://redd.it/qeq7k#c3z0vva

https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/d995c87b51

> These symbols become part of the city's identity, I'd say that's pretty important. Vastly more important is the proper purpose of the signage. It signals to someone unfamiliar wi…

Not generally! $ perl -E 'say sprintf "%.64f", 0.1 + 0.2' 0.3000000000000000000108420217248550443400745280086994171142578125 $ perl -E 'say sprintf "%.64f", 0.1 + 0.2 - 0.3' 0.0000…

Rapid pace is fine because the language spec is backward compatible. The module problem is rather mostly on the API level. To fix: • On the technical side, needs the equivalent of …

http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

That site does not work for me. I paste into the input field and it automatically turns into %F0%9F%90%88. Compare with https://codepoints.net/ instead. Edit: great, HN is broken t…

You are mistaken. Near the end there is a hyperlink to the claims document. It is titled "Facebook's terrible post" and points to the URL " rel="nofollow">https://facebook.github.i…

There was apparently only a 30 minute window to do so. HN moves too fast for nuanced counter-replies to the commentary. If I just made a top-level comment, it would say something a…

> the original paper has done (IMHO) a poor job as explaining what it is about Please read " rel="nofollow">http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/specialization> . The paper is for ex…

> people spend so much time debating what is and what isn't REST should be a red flag that maybe it isn't the answer to everything Does not follow. People spend so much time debati…

Admiration and social standing as currency was used by Howard L. Myers in "All around the universe" 31 years earlier than Doctorow. http://www.baenebooks.com/10.1125/Baen/074343607…

Get a Nemo or Sailfish device. http://enwp.org/File:Mer_and_mobile_operating_systems.svg Public build service is https://openrepos.net/ and it already has lots of packages that you…

RSS never was an open standard like you would expect from a real standards organisation, e.g. IETF or W3C. Because of dominance posturing and fights between the multiple parties in…

> There is really no way for a simple program to account for all of those possible edge cases. The post to linked you contained a piece of boiler-plate code which accounts for said…

Use named captures or list assignment. $1 $2 etc are already a code smell in Perl 5. Action-at-a-distance is the enemy.

Nope. http://web.archive.org/web/2011/http://merlyn.posterous.com/...

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/02/goodnight-parrot.h... https://www.ohloh.net/p/parrot (contributor graph at the bottom)

https://github.com/Gerberus/xca

Languages that cannot deal with graphemes are lame. I daresay this solution below should score 20 in OP's imaginary scale. $ perl -CADS -E'say $ARGV[0] =~ /(\X{5})/' देवनागरीदेवनाग…

There was, and as a result a lot of people shitcanned that distro, and said incident left an indelible black mark on the vendor's reputation.

Perl did time-travelling variables first, namely in 2007: Positronic::Variables https://www.flickr.com/photos/gunnarwolf/1343377956/ This in the picture is Conway giving the talk.