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by arturadib 14y ago
All of these compile-to-JS efforts are great, and as much as I love things like CoffeeScript I have to say I definitely worry about language fragmentation. JavaScript is full of flaws, but its monopoly in the browser space has brought about
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California Governor Signs Self-Driving Car Bill Into Law(pcmag.com)
5 points by arturadib 14y ago|0 comments
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by arturadib 14y ago
Interesting! I created Node-Five with a similar goal in mind (low-level graphics and audio from the HTML5 spec): http://documentup.com/arturadib/node-five Glad to see someone had the same idea for iOS :)
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by arturadib 14y ago
Read the paragraphs above the one I quoted. Like this: > “The biggest advancement is our buoyancy management system that allows the vehicle to operate autonomously - without the hundreds of people that you saw grabbing the Zeppelin typ
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by arturadib 14y ago
> When the pilot wants to descend, the vehicle needs to be heavier, so the helium in the main body of the craft is compressed and put into storage chambers. Ha, it's an inverted submarine! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine#Subme
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by arturadib 14y ago
> Liquidity is the reason you can click a button on E-Trade and get your trades almost instantly I personally don't care that my trade happens in a second or a minute because I'm a long-term investor - someone who wants to become a co
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by arturadib 14y ago
Who gives a rats ass about shaving off spread points? Only "traders" - not long-term investors. Also, I have done more than "a bit of research" on the topic (I'm ashamed I was once so innocent as to make money with stat arbitrage, now I kno
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by arturadib 14y ago
It is really too bad folks keep pushing technical trading platforms to the public. The promise of quick money to be made in a sea of billions of dollars might seem innocuous, but it's (a) bad for the market and (b) bad for society. It's bad
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by arturadib 14y ago
Fantastic! Wish there was a brief explanation of the course format though - is it streaming? Email delivery? Can we watch at our own pace?
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by arturadib 14y ago
> There's little status to be gotten from tinkering on "someone else's" repo. Agreed. Additionally, even if you are a collaborator on someone else's repo it doesn't show on your profile, which greatly under-represents a user's activit
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by arturadib 14y ago
Interesting cosmetic change - debatable if it's for the better (the repo activity graphs are now barely visible, and the user activity bars have disappeared). I'd prefer to see work done on features that are hurting the utility of the profi
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by arturadib 14y ago
The same can be said about Twitter, so the comparison is fair and the fact that their trends are opposite remains meaningful.
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by arturadib 14y ago
If we're going to include external links we should also remember that Twitter is built into iOS, so it's stats are also severely underrepresented. Yet their Google Trends curves are going in opposite directions...
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by arturadib 14y ago
> Then looking at searches is another poor proxy because once you've figured out what G+ is, why search for it? Same applies to Twitter, so the comparison is fair.
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by arturadib 14y ago
There must be something seriously deceptive about these stats, particularly the "active users" one. To begin with, as experienced by others here, my Google+ is extremely quiet. There may be at most a few people who occasionally post to it,
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by arturadib 14y ago
Sure, it's not perfect, but a factor of 70? Also, if you're going to include links from other properties you have to factor in (for example) that iOS has Twitter sign-in built in, so Twitter is also greatly underrepresented...
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by arturadib 14y ago
There must be something seriously deceptive about these stats. To begin with, as experienced by others here, my Google+ is extremely quiet. There may be at most a few people who occasionally post to it, and recently I've seen many switching
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by arturadib 14y ago
Definitely neat, but of course platform-dependent. Due to the cross-platform needs of Mozilla's PDF.js build scripts, we've been writing a Node.js lib on top of Node's APIs that enables you to write shell-like scripts that run seamlessly on
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by arturadib 14y ago
> "Feeds are now full of relevant engaging posts because LinkedIn user’s post stuff they think will be relevant to their audience" My 200+ connections must be very quiet - all I see in my feed are job title and skill changes. That being
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by arturadib 14y ago
I like it that it partially solves the callback hell problem - at least you don't have to routinely align/indent closing }); }; )}; ); }); etc... Everything else, like being easier on the eyes, having built-in classes, not having to spell "
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by arturadib 14y ago
Agreed. And if you need cross-platform support (and the bonus of being JavaScript), try https://github.com/arturadib/shelljs
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by arturadib 14y ago
At Mozilla's PDF.js, we looked at several build alternatives in 2011. The main problem was that they all required a learning curve (they all looked like a domain-specific language), and sometimes they were too limited for our needs. Since w
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by arturadib 14y ago
Try ShellJS. It works on all three platforms, and has been battle-tested in the build systems of several Mozilla projects (PDF.js, Firefox OS, Popcorn.js, etc). https://github.com/arturadib/shelljs
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by arturadib 14y ago
Great to see Travis supporting Pull Requests. At Mozilla we've been using Bot.io for several of our Github projects (PDF.js, Firefox OS, Popcorn.js, etc) since mid-2011 to launch regression tests right from Pull Requests. It's fully customi
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by arturadib 14y ago
Hi Artur from PDF.js here. We built Bot.io to handle the workflow you mentioned: http://github.com/arturadib/botio It's written in Node and is trivial to install/use in any Github project.
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Paternal age linked to autism, schizophrenia(nature.com)
4 points by arturadib 14y ago|0 comments
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by arturadib 14y ago
The author nails it when he/she points out that star ratings don't reveal how good a movie is for you ("the movies appeal to different kinds of people"), but then goes on to propose a 2-dimensional metric that still doesn't capture the pe
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by arturadib 14y ago
Neat but I'm not sure I'd try to push that into my resume (as suggested by the author). If anything, resumes tend to be too noisy, hard to pick out what really matters. Nice to have a place to keep all that stuff though.
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by arturadib 14y ago
Wait, how's this different from Express? The whole "in X lines" makes a lot more sense in the browser context (as it needs to download the script), not so much on the server side.
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by arturadib 14y ago
Oh c'mon, this is brilliant, and solves a huge pain problem for lots of people (myself included). You don't have to have perfect solutions to edge customer cases in order to be successful (e.g. Zipcar, AirBnB, eBay, etc), and you can always

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