I went back to cable last year after years of Netflix/Hulu for my tv needs (there isn't a better option than Comcast for ISP and the Internet + Cable + HBO deal was more or less the same I was paying for Internet + Netflix/Hulu + TiVo), and Prime video has been a pretty adequate replacement for a lot of what I had been using Netflix to watch (which, honestly, is primarily children's programming, so your mileage may vary).

I grew up in the south where this is a pretty standard exchange at a restaurant:

"I'd like a coke." "What kind?" "Pepsi"

Right. Thats my point.

They kind of already do this with their pharmacies.

A hearty second to the recommendation of Perahia's Variations.

Nope, that one's taken by a new app that's disrupting the fishmonger industry.

This is long established practice in the publishing business - publications getting exclusive excerpting rights to upcoming big books. Lewis's name can help move some issues of the Times, and the exposure there helps move some books. Lewis also has a long history with the Times magazine, so it's unsurprising to see them get excerpt rights.

Also worth a read if you're a Rolling Stones fan.

Aside from the comics, no fiction. That makes me sad.

Objective-C as well.

Nitpick, C# is an ECMA standard that has a non proprietary implementation (Mono). I realize the best implementation is the CLR provided by Microsoft, but is feasible that should Microsoft abandon C#, others could pick it up.

I'm pretty sure that I remember Objective-C (under gcc) from way back.

> Writing list(, $b) = array(3,4) is not allowed. Instead use $_, i.e.: list($_, $b) = array(3, 4).

Not that I think the former is good practice at all, but isn't the latter a kind of weird use of what is a valid variable name?

Using _ as a throwaway variable name is idiomatic in Python, Haskell, and Go. Looks like they're pushing the same idiom in Hack, which I'm ok with.

AFAIK in Haskell it's not a throwaway variable, a pattern with _ will not create a binding at all. I don't think Python does this, maybe Go.

Python doesn't have language support for the idiom -- trying to evaluate

lambda _, _: None

gives

SyntaxError: duplicate argument '_' in function definition

but tools like pylint will silence unused-variable warnings if the variable starts with '_'.

Thanks for the verification. But even a bit of syntactic convention won't be enough if python create a unnecessary binding.

And Ruby, and Rust. It's close to universal.

And Clojure.

It is a variable, not a language construct. The docs are just recommending `$_` as a convention over something like `$temp`.