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Such sad news! Condolences to his family, friends and thousands of admirers worldwide. One way to commemorate his life is to donate to the charityware cause he championed: https://…

With any luck Perl 7 with phase out the archaic linenoise features. This is overdue IMO.

Nice. Coincidentally, I saw a talk about Jupyter @ FOSDEM earlier this year, this time with Perl 6 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSZV8IXIsM4 ). I had no knowledge of it prior t…

Likewise, I had a brief conversation with the fascinating Dr Lewis Dartnell where we discussed the origin of barley farming. Did our ancestors grow it for food, and accidentally di…

It was a decision made by Larry Wall alone.Since it’s his language, he’s allowed to do that.

Since they appear to plan on running an uber/lyft style service with self-driving tech, and they believe that their tech is especially likely to give them an advantage in that busi…

...bearing in mind that Tesla AFAIAA is supposed to be selling more moderately priced cars in the near future

Surely this is to stop Uber, Lyft etc from buying a fleet of the things for their business use, rather than targeting individual drivers specifically (though they're happy to stop …

This is a response from an old friend of mine: http://imgur.com/a/4MSRr I think it's fair to say that both of us believe that women ought to have their own place to comb their hair…

1/ You don't know what their motives were 2/ You weren't there so your opinion is worthless

The Perl 6 development team is generally good-natured and work to be pleasant to each other and newcomers. http://perl6.org/

Respect!

Something journalists like to say. Not true. Hacker News classic nonsense.

Poor Grim_Reaper. Nothing to do all day but post complaints in a Perl 6 thread. I hope you can find some sort of purpose in life, friend.

That's pretty much the intention. I have heard Larry Wall say that Camelia was created to appeal to 7 year old girls. I didn't hear him go into any complicated discussions regardin…

This is only too true, and I have no doubt that this behaviour has deeply discouraged people looking for a bit of help to get them up the learning curve.