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>But another good example is rewriting an if/else chain as a dictionary lookup or repetitive code as a tuple of operations followed by a for loop.

I'm familiar with the dictionary lookup method but not the tuple. Perhaps it's obvious but could someone please give an example?

Great (basic) introduction with exception to the regex chapter because it felt like an introduction to regex instead of the regex features of perl6.

Some things I found interesting (in addition to what s_kilk mentioned and linked to and others have already mentioned some of them) * Gradual typed! * Multi subroutine * Hyphen in variable names * @numbers.=sort * .WHAT * Catch blocks * .defined * Unless

It will be fun :)

I however don't understand the reason for the naming of eg elsif, my, slurp/spurt?? (instead of else if or local or fread/fwrite) Is it a perl culture thing? Because they mention in the tutorial that Perl 6 belongs to the C-family languages (and then call the "for" loop in C "loop").

I'd like to take perl6 for a spin. However, other than playing with it I'm not sure how it compares to say python or ruby in terms of strong sides. I mean what are the cases perl6 would shine in comparison? (NOT TO FLAME! I'm asking for ideas to when perl6 would be an interesting tool for the job. AFAIK it had a good string manipulation ~ also I'm still reading the tut and currently it feels very bash and somewhat ugly (although helpful) with the % & @ prefixes).

Death? I mean, if you will not die, you could die? And taxes of course.

NEB (No Expert But...) Isn't Linux just the kernel?

On the page they think comparable systems to Circuit are CoreOS, and Consul and Mesosphere.

What I'm trying to say is this: are not all of these "linux installed" with some additional stuff thus making them an operative system (distro is it??

This article refers to https://securelist.com/blog/research/68750/equation-the-deat...

Where the Q&A rapport is found http://25zbkz3k00wn2tp5092n6di7b5k.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/f...

And how does this relate to US foreign policy? Or any foreign policy? Or how about HackerNews?

I'd like to comment though on the awfulness of the sign up pop up (popsign?) and the clunky website. It's awful.

I'm not sure which Muslamic country you're thinking about but Zionists had http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaphone_desktop_tool which I personally think was a very clever and convenient tool to organize ideological driven people (given the time it was introduced 2006)

And I recall reading a couple of years ago about a software that enabled a person to control several user accounts on one site or different sites. And I think the US military or some other US agency actively used it.

Oh No no no! That does sound like a "a defense of the theocratic monsters that run Iran"!

Remember that Iran has suppressed dissidents who question how the rich 1%, the banks and corporations run the country!

Those monsters in Tehran have preemptively attacked other states and destroyed their infrastructure! Iran has occupied territory and is killing civilians indiscriminately! Even bombing schools and hospitals!

Also they support various dictators in the World like Saudi Arabia in the ME. And they helped neo nazists take power in Ukraine. Oh god the evil. And I'm barely touching the surface.

The only thing they have going for them is that they accept homosexuals. Which we all know is the litmus test for a free and non-monstrous regime.

Could you please quote the antisemitic parts?

In general avoid politics on Hacker News.

Especially if you diverge from the "party line". Such truths hurt. Cf eg BugBrother's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7795134) (no downvotes there incidentally...)

This would however all be comical if it wasn't so tragic.

"It seems that dictators generally need to make enemies out of the world's democracies."

The US (and Europe) has set out to antagonize not only Iran, but Russia, and China. For what reasons?

"This is so the populations don't start to get ideas about why their junta's steal so much money and they don't have any freedom. "Democracy and freedom are just lies -- the westerners are degenerates which tolerate homosexuality, etc."

Oh yeah, the evil easterners threatening our freedom.... So.. that the population don't get any ideas about the "elected" government's corruption (the military spending, the banks, the rich 1%, etc)?

Any form of government that "we" don't like is lying about everything -- the easterners are degenerate who tolerate nothing and support terrorism!

Don't waste your time. You can't help a person who has decided to hit rock bottom. They'll only bring you down with them. That's the tragedy.

If I understand this correctly, the pushed information by the master isn't stored on the server (hosting the application) and then retrieved by the slave device?

But can the pushed information be intercepted by the server?

Does anyone know if there are more applications/experiments like this? I really like this idea (if I've understood the concept correctly).

>I think it is an easy fall back to make comparisons between the rich and poor, but that isn't the problem here. It is the government.

Government isn't an isolated entity in society it represents segments of a society. And usually that is the rich and or powerful.

That is a good distinction.

Although if I may digress and make a small comment. The market economy could be argued somewhat "command based" too. The difference being that you are given money to buy the food and shelter you need (rather than being given them directly). And then you have the entire "debt economy" when it comes to "laboring until their obligation is fulfilled".

While I now understand your argument, I saw the issue more as the state at least acknowledged an exchange, and a right for the worker to receive some compensation. Perhaps not the most valuable. But something, in a time were you could easily have slave labor; "payment" in its simplest form without any connotation to specific economic models.

Speaking of slave labor however. There was a part about slaves (in one of the articles I quoted). It stated that more skilled labor (doctors, nurses and teachers) were kept as slaves. Now, in a market economy those kinds of skills would (should) be especially rewarding in the model A you are talking about.

When I think about it, I can't say that lower skill work really would seem to differ in the two models you mentioned. In today’s world you could find lower skill work that pays more than simply keeping a person alive (e.g. in many European countries), but generally speaking this is not true in all (most?) places.

But I digress. Again.

Eh, you simply changed the meaning of the word; it clearly states "paid" and not "feed".

You are fully aware that you can offer work in exchange for things rather than gold or fiat money?

From the other link we'll find

>Free workers were even recruited from neighbouring satrapies at harvest time (Dandemaev and Lukonin, 1989: 157). Paid free-born labourers worked on the Babylonian canals, and free non-citizen farmers worked the land of the state, temples and the rich (Dandamaev and Lukonin, 1989: 152), and provided the corvee labour at such sites as Susa and Persepolis (Kent 1953DSf 22-58). They could not be sold, and so were not actually slaves, and could be considered non-citizen workers.

(my emphasis)

The discussion is more complicated than quoting a couple of random non-related articles on the Internet. But simply changing the meaning of a given statement and dismissing the entire counter argument is dishonest.