> Interesting work!

Thanks!

> is there a way for users to report/flag bad suggestions?

For the word hints there isn't a way yet, but this is a great point, I should add it in the future! For the sentence examples, it depends on what you mean with "bad". There's a "..." pop-up menu with an option to flag the example as incorrect or report it (for being inappropriate, abusive etc).

edit: For both cases, it is also possible to shuffle / fetch another suggestion.

There is also another side to that question. If you were a pizza maker and you loved what you did, would you sell your pizza to someone who wishes you and your loved ones die? Maybe that would make you uncomfortable.

These situations are usually framed on how it bothers us, as outsiders to these companies. We tend to put outselves only in the shoes of the pizza consumers, neither the evil entity, nor the pizza maker. But these companies have workers, who put their labor into some product, only then to see that product in the hands of entities that go directly against their core values and existence. I find very understandable that they are mad. Shouldn't we also question these problems from this perspective?

When there are many employees uncomfortable with things like this, maybe it's not a necessity, but I still think it's very nice for outsiders to support them.

However that was in the case where the product is something innocuous, like pizza. Because you know, it might also be case that the product is actually enabling or helping evil to be evil. Such as "being part of the critical toolkit to conduct invasive surveillance". So getting mad could be even more substantiated in those cases.

Sure, 'should the tax rate be 25%' seems like an unimportant discussion for companies to debate internally. Do you think all political questions carry similar weights of debate importance or that some questions might be different?

Yeah, surely there is some continuum, from some boring federal museum to tax rates to Guantanamo.

My main point wasn't to argue which weight this particular topic should be given.

Rather, I'm curious whether employees in countries with non-functioning governments are more likely to try to influence policy through their job?

From a European perspective it seems like this may be the case.

Oh, I understand your question now. From an European perspective, there is hardly any reason to hold our governments standards as having the moral grounds to establish what's the most efficient way to act in ethical issues like this. Perhaps relative to the USA, yes, so you could be correct that certain government's ineptitudes have a correlation with how creative people get to get heard.

Either way, the whole question of dealing with ethics from the efficiency perspectice is one that bothers me and a whole discussion in itself.

Lua was made specially for non programmers. I think it is really intuitive and easy. I agree with the comment that perhaps understanding optmisation details is hard. But that's hard in every language.

The talk was great! I'm incredibly impressed with the benchmarks.

Here is a quick link to Pallene's github repo as well, since it's a bit hidden in the paper: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene

"I took a sabbatical". If the company has a problem with that they are not a good place to work anyway.

Given that, looking for jobs sucks, a couple of rejections can easily make people feel really down. So after some failed attempts I know it's hard to keep the mindset that you are also interviewing the companies, but do try to keep in mind that you deserve a good work environment!

There's an excellent book about the software community in peripheral areas that talks about Lua's development

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/coding-places

I don't like perl a lot exactly because it's easy to make it hard to read, but I gotta give that CPAN is the best language specific package manager I've ever encountered.

I strongly disagree that CPAN is the best package manager. The CPAN repository might be one of the largest for a specific language, but the cpan comnand line is aegul, you can't even remove a package automatically with it. Don't get me wrong, because I love Perl, it was my main language for 10+ years, but the default package manger us awful.

cpanm

My thoughts exactly on the difference on underrated and underused. Lua is quite widespread in the industry in sneaky ways. It just doesn't get the love it deserves.

Do you know of some example areas, other than games and nginx/OpenResty? (IIRC it is used in the latter.)

+1 to Lua, it is my favorite interpreted language. I like that the design is extremely clean and consistent, not to mention it is way faster than the alternatives.