How old is your writing system? You still have to learn it. There are no substitutes, functional is the arguably the best way to program a multiprocessor computer.
Unless Hacker news is free advertisement for pay-links. Don't take me wrong, I love the Washington Post, but this way of putting a link, is just bad for their image.
exercism.io, do all the exercises in the language of your choice. I recomend Ruby and Kotlin first. But, it is like running, you need stamina and focus. Learn developing by testing while you are at it.
Netflix is a service company. If someone is closer to acquire it is Amazon which provides most of the infrastructure. What would be the aggregated value coming from Apple? Remember that Netflix runs everywhere including the browser, and most of all devices that are out there and provide a TV interface, or that ARE a TVs.
Upvoted. Running from source. Checking sources to see how to add more libraries. Hope we can use transpilers like coffeescript, truescript, scalajs, clojurejs and others to code on it. This looks like the perfect friendly Frankenstein monster to join all javascript modules and transpilers in one single running notebook.
I love Berny Sanders no-prisoners approach to politics for the people, and I love Emily display of bare feelings during her speech and in general. Enough said.
I have not a good opinion of all RK related. One thing he did not predict correctly (by his own design) is that open source will be the main component (already is) of IA in all current and future developments. Check the index of his 'Singularity' book, no mention whatsoever of Open Source, Linux, Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman or any of the OS giants. So anything RK says sounds to me like just another Microsoft advertisement.