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by bklimt 10y ago
Why are you assuming that none of us defending suburbs are American? There's a reason so many people like to live in them.
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by bklimt 10y ago
In every suburb I've lived in, whether in Austin or Pittsburgh or San Jose, there has been a grocery store within walking distance. I have lived in smaller cities where that's not the case, but not in the suburbs.
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by bklimt 10y ago
Chains like Starbucks and McDonald's are popular for a reason. They make products people like. They have optimized for scale and cost. They provide consistent product and service, especially when traveling. In the medium-sized town whe
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by bklimt 10y ago
Nope, every single programming language and computing interface is an attempt to avoid writing machine code. :)
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by bklimt 11y ago
As a person with a toddler and 2 very talkative simanese cats, I cann tek k tiy= lplease just let me go back to lsepp
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by bklimt 11y ago
Observables are great, and are indeed the stream equivalent to Tasks. But the await/async keyword compilation doesn't support them. I think that's the parent post's point.
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by bklimt 11y ago
The one advantage of C#'s async/await over Go's CSP is that by exposing the underlying Tasks, you can take more control over how the continuations get executed. The result of this is that it's easy to have async code tha
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by bklimt 11y ago
He's 14, not 12.
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by bklimt 11y ago
How does this project relate to Facebook's other futures/promises library, Bolts? https://code.facebook.com/posts/225525624316574/building-and...
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by bklimt 12y ago
"In general, a character can be represented in 1 byte or 2 bytes. Let's say 1-byte character is ANSI character - all English characters are represented through this encoding. And let's say a 2-byte character is Unicode, which
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7 Ways Transpiling Makes JavaScript Better(blog.parse.com)
2 points by bklimt 12y ago|0 comments
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The Inside Scoop on Google+(bklimt.tumblr.com)
3 points by bklimt 12y ago|0 comments
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by bklimt 13y ago
I should point out that the Parse iOS SDK has been built on top of this task framework for over a year, and the Facebook iOS SDK has been using it for months. So it has been battle-tested in at least thousands of production apps. Maybe prom
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by bklimt 14y ago
"In terms of academia and career, engineers at companies like Google are used to doing really well and rejection is not a frequent event in this part of their lives. They probably got into one of their top choice schools, where they then le
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by bklimt 14y ago
There is a fork of CoffeeScript called IcedCoffeeScript that adds something similar: http://maxtaco.github.com/coffee-script/
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by bklimt 14y ago
> you are nowhere near familiar enough with Go to be justified in doing so Haha, I agree. I wrote it mostly to try to get my thoughts straight, and didn't expect it to be posted to Hacker News. :) But my criticisms are that these things
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by bklimt 14y ago
PFObject subclassing and a more comprehensive offline solution are both very high on our list of features we would like to add. We're just taking our time to make sure we get them right. :)