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   by dangoor 11y ago

   I've seen others knock down this report already, but I'm having trouble finding a link. What those other articles noted is that this is US-only, online-only sales (and I believe from people who opted in to provide this data). Appl
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   by dangoor 11y ago

   The sort of is, now. Retailers in the US that don't support chip cards now have to accept the liability for fraud. For many retailers, that means getting new credit card terminals... and if you're upgrading your credit card termin
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   by dangoor 11y ago

   It seems highly unlikely that "seeing users flee to alternatives like Pale Moon" has anything to do with this. How many users do you suppose Pale Moon has? Firefox competes at a very large scale. Browsers that are not Chrome, IE,
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   by dangoor 11y ago

   These are regions in which we were able to get sponsors, school district support, etc.
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   by dangoor 11y ago

   The leaderboards are built on top of Khan Academy infrastructure, but the "hustle" calculation is not reflected (or computed, for that matter) anywhere else on Khan Academy.
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   by dangoor 11y ago

   There are quite a few differences from the old "JScript" days. First of all: TypeScript is liberally licensed open source. JScript was totally proprietary. Another aspect is that TypeScript is seeking to be a strict superset of Ja
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   by dangoor 11y ago

   "Hustle" in LearnStorm is intended to reward productive persistence in learning how to tackle a new math skill. We don't go into the details of how we measure that because we want the kids to just do the challenge as they nat
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   by dangoor 11y ago

   The regions are set for 2016. We may expand in 2017
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   by dangoor 11y ago

   It's region based because there are in-person events and effort that goes in to getting kids signed up. We also have regional sponsors that help provide prizes and make the events great.
10. 760.▲
    by dangoor 11y ago

    I interpreted that part as being relevant given some of the statements from the Presidential nomination process going on today. That said, this point in the nomination process is not very indicative of where things end up. Potentially more
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    There's also scmpuff a "minimalistic reinterpretation" by one of my coworkers. I use it every day: https://github.com/mroth/scmpuff
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    There's a pretty big difference between emscripten and compilers that specifically target JS. The ones that target JS will generally use JS memory management and attempt to use JS language features whereas emscripten targets asm.js and
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    Thanks for that! Must be archaic indeed because I cannot remember ever having seen reëvaluate before. I appreciate the correction. If I had a cat, I'm pretty sure it would give me one of those "see I told you so" looks right
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    I realize it's a bit of a nitpick, but I kind of like the "heavy metal umlaut" in "reëvaluating" in the first paragraph. In context: > [...]cats seem to be constantly reëvaluating the merits of our relationship,
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    I'm guessing that YouTube is quite popular on mobile devices. Beyond that, though, I think the fact that this service is bundled with Google Play Music is a big deal. There's a market already for $10/month music services... n
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    We're trying to reduce the amount of JavaScript on our pages and have decided at this point to move forward with Redux as our common approach to state (keeping an eye on things like Relay and Falcor as we move along).
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Using immutable objects means that the overhead for checking a component that has not changed what it's rendering is a couple of function calls plus an object identity check. Modern JS ca
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    const a = icepick.freeze({b: "foo"}); Granted, that's not as elegant as built-in support but that is literally what I'm doing at the moment when I want immutability.
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    Isn't the problem that the TypeScript compiler doesn't support all of the ES6 features that Babel does?
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    This is plainly not true. O'Reilly sells their books DRM-free to a very technical audience. In the US, at least, music that is purchased( ) today is sold without DRM. DRM is user hostile and not required to make money. ( ) purchased do
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    Indeed, the platform is responsible for the HTTP call, so I see what you mean. The side effect is happening in the platform itself. I should watch the second part of Chris Armstrong's video to see how he approached making testing nicer
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    Yeah, Richard Feldman's Strange Loop talk[1] touched upon Tasks and they do indeed look exactly like what I'm looking for. Elm does look very nice. Not sure if I'd get the team on board with that kind of change ;) [1]: https
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    Sure, the `then`s could be pure functions but the whole point of my blog post is that I'd like to be able to test code that calls `fetch`. That would be possible if the actual side effecting operation is deferred to later, and not just
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    Thanks for the followup! > In Haskell, the lack of side effects is by the fact IO is provided by the platform. There is no fundamental difference between Haskell's `getLine` and the DOM's `fetch`, both return a boxed value. In
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    > If you write your promises code not to cause explicit side effects - it won't and you get pure code. The way I've seen promises used in JS is always in this pseudocode form: - initiate something side effecty (making an HTTP r
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    Side Effects vs. Promises(blueskyonmars.com)

    52 points by dangoor 11y ago|51 comments
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    Side Effects vs. Promises(blueskyonmars.com)

    1 points by dangoor 11y ago|0 comments
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    If the main goal is static typing, it seems like using a static compile-to-JS language may be better because you can use the whole Node ecosystem. A few choices for static typing (the first two are JS supersets, the second two are just diff
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    Mathbox 2: PowerPoint Must Die(acko.net)

    15 points by dangoor 11y ago|0 comments
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    by dangoor 11y ago

    Even more amazing, at the time Mike started SQLAlchemy, his day job was working in Java... So SQLAlchemy was a total side project. I don't know if that has changed. Mike is a master.