No, that was Perl5. Perl6 is all of that, with Asian twins.

... oh, and regular expression grammars, but hey: Asian twins!

He meant narwhally. Which is still not fish, but closer.

Except that this one doesn't, smarty-pants. The author of the fucking article herself says as much:

And then she goes on for the rest of the fucking article making stupid assumptions about the influence of technology on students, before admitting that the only factor that really matters is good teachers.

Which we have also known for ages, but choose to ignore because having good teachers means paying taxes.

Indeed, the very first thing that jumped out at me is: how did they correlate their findings? Did they compare the correlation between computers and schools with the funding abyss into which most poor schools have fallen into over the last two decades? Did they compare the correlation between the arrival of computers and the start of No Child Left Behind, and its disastrous effect on education outcomes?

Prima facie, attempting to isolate the effect of technology from other recently introduced policies and phenomena seems difficult, to put it lightly.

Wylie, as in Coyote.

I got Ariadne as well, but b***h....

Wait - I'm confused. Have we renamed it ad neaseam yet? Or is it still nauseam?

Bruce

What makes you think we haven't already done that with ad neaseam?

Sincerely,
Bruce Hecklesby
Chairman,
International Time Travelers for Proper Latin Spelling

Don't blow your stack if nobody applauds. It's just that we're overflowing with bad puns, and the funny bits get flipped around, and in the end all we see is some stupid zero on the stage who's only in it for the cache anyway.

Actually, it's unfortunate, but I think he did mean that:

That's his longer version of the same slogan - literally the next sentence in the essay.

It's possible to read that as meaning that every problem —once it's been found— will be fixed quickly and relatively easily, but Occam's razor says that we should understand discovery of the problem to be implicit in this statement.

But... you are right to say that FOSS is far better at fixing known bugs than proprietary software. By the late '90s, I was so sick of having my professional reputation as a systems software developer tarnished by bugs, poor quality and stupid release cycles that I stopped supporting Windows entirely. Dropped the entire proprietary ecosystem and moved to Linux and FOSS. I can't say it's been perfect, but I've slept way better since then.

Example: In 2006, the Fijian military seized power from the elected Parliament. Some time afterward, on instruction from the military dictator, the President abrogated the constitution. During the entire tenure of the military regime, they did not issue a single law. They lacked the constitutional authority to do so. Instead, they issued a number of decrees, because that's what they were: Follow this instruction or get a visit from some very burly men with guns.

During the time between the abrogation of the old constitution and the promulgation of the new one (a period of several years), Fiji was a non-constitutional republic.

Uh... that only means they don't bother with a warrant. They just go and get whatever they like.

Perversely, you're actually better off dealing with these ridiculous, draconian, panopticonian laws, because at least in theory you have some kind of recourse - even if it consists of fighting retroactively to reduce the J. Edgar Hoovering up of your personal data. If you use an offshore email provider, the NSA will just grab whatever it wants, whenever it wants, without even the tiniest fig leaf of law to cover up strategic bits.

ARRRGGGHHHHH!!!

Here I went and ignored the First Rule of Slashdot: Coffee, then comment.

Or... Watt, as it's commonly known.

Of course dere is, you stupide fuckin' Englisher!! I spit on your politesse!

À bas la reine! Vive le Quebec libre!