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I like that article primarily for the chain of insightful comments at the end. I think my conclusion after reading it the first time was that it takes every bit as much time to really "get" forth programming as it does any of the highly opinionated paradigms -- be it functional programming in a pure language like haskell, logic programming in prolog, or true OO in Smalltalk.

The deceptive ease with which you can write your own implementation lulls you into thinking that you really get it when you've written an interpreter/ compiler. But true cultural, idiomatic forth requires a paradoxically deeper understanding than writing the compiler can give you.

I think the author drew and settled his conclusions too soon.

Insurance companies obviously end up being the front line of insurance fraud and should definitely turn over those cases to the proper authorities. But this shit? "Erie had even paid part of the salary of the lead detective who knocked on Schmidt’s door that day, as well as that of the prosecutor who went on to charge him with felony insurance fraud. And it would also secretly cover the costs of an expert witness to testify against Schmidt in court." Why on gods green earth is it legal for any person or company to directly pay police departments like this? How is this not a bribe?

I see nobody's mentioned that Kotlin can compile to WebAssembly (in addition to Java bytecode, native binaries and JS).

Kotlin is a beautiful language and hopefully WebAssembly will help it to gain traction outside the Android world.

I thought Destin was actually manipulating the algorithm.

I love that we have what is essentially part of an intro-level physics course as part of a software review. This sounds like a totally different paradigm of programming, which I guess it would need to be in order to take advantage of quantum entanglement. Neat, though I guess what it does say is that quantum computing is going to basically be its "own separate thing" for quite a while (if not forever).

Love this story. What an innovative idea to create a game using American birds, their habitats and the sources of their feeding . With over 700 species in the US, the possibilities are incredible, and fun for all ages. It would be a great teaching device in schools to acquaint American children with the variety of habitats and birds in this country.

First off, making $110k a year does not make you rich. Secondly, the article does not address the rich that live in California but make their money outside of California. Many truly rich people buy homes in California even though they have a "primary residence" outside of California.

well Warren now knows first hand what conservatives have been saying for years - FB has no problem censoring those that they disagree with -welcome to the Club

This is annoying. Maybe npm can consider adding a confirmation prompt to publish if a new package is about to be created. Not sure if it'd prevented such ignorance though.

"The detailed USB4 specification will be published in the middle of 2019 and half-assed, cheap hardware that only implements a subset of the total features list in order to cut corners on cost but still use the new name should appear in 2030 behind flimsy out-of-spec connectors and loose, easily damaged cables."

I had to add a few things to manage expectations and more accurately reflect reality, but I think we've got it now.

Did the Author ever determine if the source images came from Drone-based WAMI or Satellite-based WAMI as originally reported? The original article in the intercept noted that the Google e-mails they had obtained showed that it was Satellite-based WAMI - which would sort of be a big deal..... AKA - who needs solar powered High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) drone planes, blimps or aerostats to deploy Wide Area Persistent Surveillance when you can just put WAMI on Micro-sats that never come down and never blink?

Last years there are many fuckups with pro models.