Logged in to say this. Market share is a confusing stat when customers don't exclusively use one service.

Netflix is still adding subscriptions at a good rate.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/netflix-statistics/

But Netflix is also losing subs. Their catalog is quite dismal beside a few blockbusters and they know it. Hope this trend reverses and they come on top

tmux attach

> It was used so extensively that it was the language of courts and newspapers in the Pacific Northwest from about 1800 to 1905. This makes it sound like all the newspapers were in Chinook Jargon. But the only such paper I've been able to find was this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops_Wawa —first published in 1891 and doesn't seem to have had too wide of a circulation.

Saturation or oversupply seem possible. Number of bachelors degrees awarded in 2015 was 14% higher than in 2010, but US population increased only 3% during this time.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_322.10.a...

http://www.multpl.com/united-states-population/table

The Rock Warrior's Way:

https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Warriors-Way-Training-Climbers/d...

Nominally about rock climbing, but really a study of the ego, why we invest so much effort in protecting it, and how little we get for that investment.

The Thomas Watson quote (only a market for 5 computers) is a bit of an urban legend:

http://geekhistory.com/content/urban-legend-i-think-there-wo...

I think this is a good youtube video for someone starting from zero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA

An issue is how to enter the symbols. The way I do it is I created some input methods for Mac and Windows which use at-signs followed by the APL community name for the symbol:

    @times       ×
    @grade       ⍋ 
    @reverse     ⌽
    @domino      ⌹

https://github.com/clarkgrubb/latex-input/tree/master/apl

I've a theory that APL might become increasingly attractive as touchscreen computing matures (part of the theory is that touchscreen computing is not mature).

Support for just about every programming language (e.g. https://www.gnu.org/software/apl/Community.html#EMACSMODE) is one reason why I found learning Emacs to be worth the effort.

>I've a theory that APL might become increasingly attractive as touchscreen computing matures

At best it might become increasingly MARGINALLY more attractive.

I don't see your point.

That while a new keyboard technology like touch surfaces that allows people to have the APL glyphs at their disposal will help increase adoption a little, APL will always remain a niche language.

It's not the "being able to type in the glyphs" that hurts it, as much as the reading them -- and the understanding of its concepts.

as I say below I agreed with the change of interface impacting user perception of apl.

I use a HP48 pocket calculator, that comes with Lisp/Forth (RPL to name it) system. The interface is live interaction with a stack and a bunch of direct screen shortcuts.

I felt it was almost as fun as using emacs with a good lisp configuration. All this with a handful of keys and one level deep keyword folders. I'd bet a dollar that the same thing with an APL system would make people enjoy the language right away.

I did not say what you are arguing over.

"I've a theory that APL might become increasingly attractive as touchscreen computing matures (part of the theory is that touchscreen computing is not mature)."

Ah, everything.

I second this.

I upgraded from 2 to 3 last year. I'm liking it.

I've embraced type hints. Although they have no run-time effect, there is a command line tool called mypy which enforces correctness. It has caught more than a few errors for me. Declaring the types of arguments and return values is a help when reading the code imo.

This. Running a script which takes hours to execute, only to find you have a TypeError on the last line just before you get the results you need is really frustrating. Static typing is a must-have imo.

you will probably like Nim - https://nim-lang.org/ if you like Static Typing in a pythonish language, and writing long running (perhaps CPU intensive) tasks.

Agreed

    Vehicle capacity on the northbound 405 has increased from 10,000
    vehicles per hour to 11,700 vehicles per hour at peak times. 

http://thesource.metro.net/2015/05/28/study-finds-traffic-on...

So capacity increased maybe 10k a day, or 750M over a 20 year period. Makes the $1B investment seem reasonable.

A light rapid transit system has a capacity in excess of 20000 passengers per hour per direction.

A $1B investment in public transport can buy you a whole lot more than 1.7k vph. Hell, you could reserve that new lane for buses and transport a magnitude more people than those vehicles carry starting tomorrow.

It would take a lot more than $1B to make mass transit viable for a significant percentage of those who currently drive on the 405. Just putting in a light rail line here or there wouldn't do shit because few people's destinations would be within walking distance of the stations. You'd also need to massively increase bus service to even have a chance at making a significant dent in car traffic. For better or worse, LA's low density means vast swaths of the metro area would be cost prohibitive to connect with mass transit.

Well, yes, if you want to desperately make sure nothing ever changes on this front, $1B for road widening is a perfectly reasonable investment.

Cities are growing, suburbs are dying, you can spend the money now or face the meltdown later.

What happens to cities when the jobs have been automated out of them?

There's the meltdown on the horizon.

The areas being connected by the 405 (West LA & San Fernando Valley) are geographically quite challenging for transportation planners due to the Santa Monica Mountains. LA Metro plans to build a tunnel through the mountains but it's estimated to cost $20B:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepulveda_Pass_Transit_Corrido...

A light rail system over Sepulveda Pass would probably require drilling a tunnel. Early estimates are at least $6B: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sepulveda-pass-t.... It could get built, but I don't think the final price tag is going to put the lane expansion to shame.

Buses can already use the HOV lanes. One of the expansion lanes (the northbound one) was an HOV lane, so now there are HOV lanes in both directions. Who cares, given how few riders buses attract.

That's over $2 per passenger trip, just for the work on this expansion.

There is precedent for charging $2 tolls in CA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_73

Releasing all drug offenders (both federal and state) would reduce the US prison population 14%: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/releasing-drug-offenders-...