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The code is correct. That's a Lisp thing called `quote`. https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Pairs__Lists__and_Racket_...

The bigger, of course also more distant and vague, announcement is that "by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975."

In feed lots they're fed grain, but that's only the last few months of their life. That's why it's called grain-finished rather than grain-fed.

I'm a German engineer in the US. The thing with these stories is that they won't happen to you. If you're employed by a tech company you have great health insurance.

Of course, it still sucks that it can happen to someone at all and you might not want to live in such a society. That's a separate issue.

Speaking of SV, I think the cost of living and the social problems there have made it increasingly unattractive. Seattle is nice.

You can get 1.35% currently with the free online account at Ally (no affiliation). Still below inflation but much better than 0.02%.

Reliable access to a computer or smartphone can be an issue for the really poor but most should be fine.

The actual title on microsoft.com, "MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL: more choices on Microsoft Azure", has actually less marketing spin and more information.

This looks pretty cool!

What's the business model going to be? The ToU are quite far-reaching regarding user content: "By submitting User Content through the Services, you hereby do and shall grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, edit, modify, truncate, aggregate, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exploit the User Content".

Also, are there other ways to browse, search, etc., the highlights in addition to the daily email?

Do you have a recommendation for a soil-based probiotic? I've been looking recently and found them somewhat hard to research among all the lacto ones.

Right. You could always define a new type with an existing underlying type, like Celsius with the underlying type int in your example. See the spec here: https://golang.org/ref/spec#Types

This would define a new, non-interchangeable type, even though it's just an int behind the scenes. The new type alias on the other hand define a new name for an existing type; you still have just one type. In the user ID example above that's not what you want, it would allow using an int where a UserID is required.

The Go standard library is very well written and depending on which parts you read you can learn about lots of things like file operations, HTTP, crypto, etc.

It's easy to read it all on the web, the docs are here: https://golang.org/pkg/ and clicking on a function name shows the source.

I've used both extensively and I think they are fairly different, with different strengths and weaknesses. Bash is more pragmatic and more concise on the command line. PS is more uniform in its design and nicer for scripting IMO. It allows passing objects through pipes, has built-in JSON reading and writing, built-in parameter handling with defaults, mandatory and optional params, switches etc., and such niceties.

Isn't the Chevrolet Volt what you describe in your third paragraph?

So why does it need to be Vancouver where prices are already very high? Why not buy in another city that's more reasonable?

I wonder if they're trying to do price anchoring here. The Voyage and the Paperwhite have now moved down a step on the Kindle scale, so people might get the Paperwhite instead of the regular Kindle, or the Voyage instead of the Paperwhite, because now these are middle of the line devices.

Azure just recently announced price reductions to be competitive with AWS. The blog post has some interesting links. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/helping-azure-custome...

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.

"By homogenizing the style across all brands, every brand sells more because the decision is easier." Every brand sells more? That would mean that the homogenized style makes people buy a car who would otherwise not have bought one. Makes no sense.

The end-goal of terrorism is the psychological impact, not killing a few people more or less. And there's just something about airplanes that creates a larger psychological impact when they're hit. Maybe it's the thought of being stuck in one, helpless and with no way out. Or maybe they symbolize progress and freedom, making traveling the world so easy. Whatever it is, that's what the terrorist attacking airplanes are going for.

http://www.4clojure.com/ should also be mentioned here. I had a lot of fun there.

Nestle has already done it: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/may/26/nestle-l...

One reason, according to Elon Musk, is that parachutes or floatables won't work in the thin atmosphere of Mars. So if Mars is the vision, they must develop something that works there.

Armstrong's proposal reminds me a bit of Emacs extensions. Since Emacs Lisp doesn't have namespaces or modules, all functions must be uniquely named which is done by prefixing them: foo-replace. This is not that different from having a module foo, as Armstrong notes: "managing a namespace with namees like foo.bar.baz.z is just as complex as managing a namespace with names like foo_bar_baz_z".

But what it enabled is an Emacs community where single functions are freely shared, for example on http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/. People just copy them into their Emacs init file. Sometimes they modify them a little and post them again with their own prefix. This has obvious downsides such as lack of versioning and organization. But it provides a low barrier to entry and creates a dynamic community.

In Europe, at least in Germany and Switzerland, it's normal and expected to state your birthday and place of birth. You also include a passport-sized photo of yourself, usually in the top right corner.

See for example this guide to resume writing by a German university [pdf]: https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/math_nat_faku...

Sounds interesting, could you elaborate?

"includes 61 million lines of code" sounds scary, even if it's much more than an IDE these days.

We built the backend of www.healthcorpus.com in Go. It was great.

Would be cool. We had one over a year ago, and the attendance was good, but no one organized a follow-up.

See http://techup.ch and meetup.com for what's going on in the tech meetup space in Zurich. I'm often at zhgeeks, jszurich, web tuesday.

Author here. Originally I thought it's bad form to close a channel that the client passes in. But you're the second one to point this out and I've come around to seeing it's clearer and more idiomatic. Just pushed the change.

Hi there, I work with Nhumi Technologies in Zurich, Switzerland and we just launched our brand new site healthcorpus.com. Healthcorpus helps you find, create and share health information online. Its highlight is the unique visual search engine that lets users click on a virtual body to find relevant articles.

healthcorpus is also our first major project where the backend is written in Go.

Ask away if you have any questions!

Planet Emacsen is a good aggregator of all things Emacs, lots of neat tips: http://planet.emacsen.org/

I got the same on Firefox 16.0.1, Mac OS.