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by fineline 11y ago
I guess the profusion of pointer types was one thing, and the syntax, while not a showstopper, didn't really "speak" to me the way Nim did. But I cut my teeth on UCSD Pascal (after Apple BASIC), that might have something to d
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by fineline 11y ago
I've admired Bruce's work since Thinking in Java. I've also enjoyed a merry-go-round of languages in my own career. I too was interested in Scala and read Odersky's book - and improved a lot as a programmer because of it
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by fineline 11y ago
This is really interesting and welcome contribution in an important space. Three features that would make it compelling: 1. Offline. Making the local datastore as "invisible" as the memory cache and the cloud - keeping everything
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by fineline 11y ago
I also didn't have great experience of team competition as a kid. I've since learnt that kids can be introduced to sport far more inclusively and positively, and now enjoy coaching my kids sports teams. But my own activities remai
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by fineline 11y ago
Why do we need a substitute to a healthy, balanced life? I'm sure its an amazing piece of science, but how is this better than being physically active? As a person who exercises, am I supposed to be considering this instead of my curre
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by fineline 11y ago
I agree. As per Taleb (Antifragile) if you adopt conventional perspective of "probability" you will be bitten by the occurrence of the apparently improbable. Downside (here called "impact") is much easier to assess/
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by fineline 11y ago
>> If people were afraid to try new things, we wouldn't have things like Ember, or React, or Meteor, or Mythril, or Rails. Or washing machines. Or cars. Or penicillin. The anti-innovation mindset that pervades in this industry ju
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by fineline 11y ago
Finally, effective decentralisation of the vacuous inane gossip that is the currency of our golden information age.
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by fineline 11y ago
Medicine and law require licenses to practice, as well as an exclusive pathway to the main game via lengthy tenure in supporting roles. This is in part to to protect their clients and patients. I want to know that the guy operating on me ha
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by fineline 11y ago
I understand why you'd address this to entrepeneurs given the audience around here, but really, is there anyone to whom this advice _doesn't_ apply? Sure, if you're a textbook entrepeneur you're working hard and might ov
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by fineline 11y ago
+1 for 5:2, been on it all this year. Feels good to assert some discipline around eating, toughens up body and mind. Plus I'm now 6 months older than I was to start with, which proves that it extends life, right?
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by fineline 11y ago
If you have kids check out The Lorax movie where the two marketing dudes are pitching the ad for bottled air.
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by fineline 11y ago
Agree, this wasn't too enlightening. I highly recommend the differential calculus course on Khan Academy. I wanted to brush up recently after having not used this stuff for over 20 years, and it was the best resource I found.
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by fineline 11y ago
localStorage.getItem("myPlaylist") I'm not saying that's what they use, it could be WebSQL, IndexedDB, FileAPI - local data storage is built into your browser.
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by fineline 11y ago
Why use this instead of perl/sed/awk? Because you program in JS all day long and don't want to look up man pages every time you want to do some simple text processing, that's why.
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by fineline 11y ago
I think he was demonstrating function syntax. This shorter version also works: nip 'return /^var/.test(line)' An implicit return, added if the input doesn't match /[function|return]/ would be nice, along w
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by fineline 11y ago
https://xkcd.com/552/
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by fineline 11y ago
The examples in the article seem much more focused on NodeJS.
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by fineline 11y ago
Hey, you trendy designers, engineers worked hard to implement border-radius! But seriously though, nice work on the reorg, and the inline help and responsive on mobile rocks. Well done!
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by fineline 12y ago
How much of the stack will be open source? In the week after FoundationDB ceased to exist, there's still that nagging question of what happens when you guys get acquired. If the UI and deployment piece was open source and could be self
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by fineline 12y ago
That was my thought too. Looks great though, and I intend to load up a site to try it out.
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by fineline 12y ago
Yep, what's "innovative" for one person or team is "boring" for another, and vice versa. NodeJS / PHP is a good example.
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by fineline 12y ago
I understand that FoundationDB's main point of differentiation from other NoSQL document DBs was support for transactional integrity across documents. Others (i.e. all open-source options, AFAIK) support atomic transactions only on a s
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by fineline 12y ago
Indeed, Paypal doesn't want you to pay with your credit card, and won't let you change your default PayPal payment method. You have to go through a process to select it Every.Single.Time, if you remember, and if you overlook to do
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by fineline 12y ago
OK, you clearly don't go surfing at lunchtime with a meeting afterwards that you don't want to miss. Like I just did. With a watch. And no phone. That said, a normal watch is fine for me, getting emails while in the water would be
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by fineline 12y ago
> my own pet programming language (we all do one, or several) I don't. Thanks to all those that do though. Interesting thought experiment, even as a spectator.
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by fineline 12y ago
100% Backwards compatible? So this will work in IE6? Or 7, or 8, or 9, or 10? I think you meant 100% backwards compatible with ES6. As far as that goes, it sounds like a pretty good addition to the ES6 standard.
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by fineline 12y ago
Agree, removing the need for any special editor support would be great, even if offered as a compiler option. Makes the detection of JS a non-issue too.
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by fineline 12y ago
By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
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by fineline 12y ago
Thanks, added to my watch list. My Mum directed a theatre production of this years ago, and it's still one of the most memorable plays I've seen, be interesting to see the Beeb version.

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