Why Social Media Algorithms Are Failing You - Rob Malda, Slashdot Founder, Interview (youtube)

(Sorry, not steaming fresh, about 6 months old)

In case you're wondering: if vroom is our Olympian, then CmdrTaco is our Titan.

The doco saith:

Fields may optionally have initializing expressions. . . . the expression can . . . see any other variables in scope.

class WithACounter {
    my $next_count = 1;
    field $count = $next_count++;
}
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But it doesn't say that any other kind of code can be present there. For example, maybe I'd like to do this:

class WithACounter {
    my $next_count = 1;
    if (last_one_was_bad()) { delete_last_one(); $next_count--; }
    field $count = $next_count++;
}
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Would that be permitted?

Also: it looks like the my variables there are essentially "class static" members — so called in other languages e.g. C#. Is that an accurate characterization?

This shows the probabilities of drawing two specific cards (labeled A and B) in a hand of five cards, from decks of various sizes.

All numbers are percentages.

When the deck contains no 'draw' cards:

When the 'A' card causes Draw 1:

The probabilities of other combinations can be derived from those given in this table:

• A | !B (A or not B - possibly both conditions) is the inverse of A & !B.
• A ^ !B (A or not B but NOT both conditions) is the inverse of A ^ B.
• !A & !B (neither A nor B) is the inverse of A | B
• !A | !B (not A, or not B - possibly both conditions) is the inverse of A & B.
• !A ^ !B (not A, or not B, but NOT both conditions) is logically the same as A ^ B.

I submit for your consideration:

Policy regarding abuses of the voting system

1. Massive downvoting of nodes belonging some specific user.
2. The use of vote-bots for any reason.
3. Voting on nodes you (the human) wrote.

"Every time I have a programming question and I rly need help, I post it on PerlMonks and then log into another account and reply to it with an obscenely incorrect answer. Ppl don’t care about helping others but they LOVE correcting others. Works 100% of the time"
-- @soychotic

We have just added a new field to the user profile: CPAN author ID. You can put your PAUSE author ID in this field. When someone views your profile, they will see it and it will be a link to the corresponding page on metacpan.

Do you like this? It can be removed if it is unpopular.

Update:

I have turned off users' ability to set this value themselves.
The field itself is still supported, and you can see it displayed on certain monks' homenodes.
If you would like to have your CPAN ID on your homenode, please just /msg gods with your request. Thanks!

Update 2:

As a convenience, I have added the CPAN IDs to user profiles based on the info provided in this CPAN api (about 30 monks) and in this MetaCPAN api (about 185 monks). Interestingly, there was almost no intersection between those two sets of data.

The Web Is F**ked, by Kev Quirk

Web 1.0 wasn’t just about personal blogs, GeoCities and scrolling marquees. Oh no, dear reader. We had our own version of social media back in the day - the web forum.

They were fantastic pieces of software that allowed communities to come together, discuss specific topics and generally hang out.

If you read no other part of it, I encourage you to

Familiarise yourself with POSSE and make your site the single source of truth for all your online content.

Episodic Volunteering in Free/Libre/Open Source (FLOSS) Communities - a survey by kudra

TPF announcement

... research to understand episodic, or occasional, participation in the Perl and Raku communities... The results of the research will be provided as a TPF report and will assist the community in improving practices for managing episodic participation to provide insights into what FLOSS projects could do to become more sustainable.

Due to "popular demand", PerlMonks now supports Markdown formatting for writeups. Note: Initially, Markdown is only supported for comments (aka notes). If everyone likes it, we will extend the capability to root-level posts as well (SOPW posts, etc.)

Some relevant past discussions:

• Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)
• Wiki-Style syntax for posting
• better wiki-like shortcuts.
• Markdown syntax useful to the Monastery?

Sorry it took me a minute to implement this feature. :-D

To enable the use of Markdown in your comments, go to your User Settings and change the "Format writeups as:" selection from 'conventional' to 'markdown'.

Be aware that this is a global setting. You can't select the format at the time you submit the writeup.

When you are looking at a writeup entry box (textarea), you will see a short note immediately above it indicating which markup you can use.

This change was actually relatively simple to implement, since modules for converting markdown to HTML already existed.
I would like to know if there is any demand for any other Lightweight markup languages.
For example, we could add support for Textile or some flavor of wiki text.

This is actually from last August, but I haven't come across it until today.

Marketing Strategy for the Next Two Years (perlfoundation.org)

The question for us, I think is: What impact will this have on PerlMonks? Will we be required to modify/restrict our "look and feel" to conform to the branding guidelines set by TPF?