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by judah 9y ago
In the video, Torgersen says the nullability feature was inspired by TypeScript. Torgersen says he consulted TypeScript creator Anders Heijlsberg to build the nullable reference feature. As a heavy TypeScript user myself, it was easy to see
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Arguing against removal of Confederate statues is not siding with neo-nazis. (Corollary: arguing for the removal doesn't make you a violent Antifa Communist.) Condoleeza Rice, an African American woman with political clout and experien
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False equivalence was bad, yes. Such is politics. President Trump equates the alt-right racists and the Antifa violent Communists for political purposes. President Obama equated Israelis and Palestinian terrorists for political purposes[0].
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He condemned them by name, but it took 48 hours to do so.
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>> "I don't trust myself to create bug-free programs and are in the belief that it's impossible." And the recent hack exploited exactly this: a harmless-looking piece of code that turned out to have a serious bug a
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>> "Should we join organized religions or get married strictly for the health benefits?" As a married religious person who was once single and not so religious, I can attest that faith and marriage have generally made me hap
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Is this the same CAR-T treatment that Juno Therapeutics tried and scrapped[0] after 5 trial patients died after receiving the treatment? [0]: http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2017/03/01/after-trial-deaths..
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TPL (and PLINQ) raise the level of abstraction. They discourage the use of mutable shared memory and low-level locks. They encourage the use of immutable or thread-safe data structures. Joe Duffy, who had originally done quite a bit of init
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Are locks and mutable shared memory a good thing? Advances in modern programming languages aim to abstract threads away (e.g. .NET's Task Parallel Library), because mutable memory shared between threads is a minefield (atomic, locks, m
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>> "What compels someone to attack another person because their beliefs" Anything that motivates humans: patriotism, romance, religion, politics, etc. In this particular case, it's easy to see why this man's uncle
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> "Hacker News doesn't need to cover politics for the same reason your average sports, celebrity gossip, fashion or gaming forum doesn't need to cover politics" Indeed. And when sports forums (e.g. ESPN) start getting
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From the article, it says they won't show up in grocery stores until 2019.
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This article doesn't mention the fact that a vast majority of FGM cases are carried out in Islamic theocracies and Islamic communities abroad. The article rightfully points out that "no religious texts require FGM." But it ne
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2-3 hours a week on Chavah Messianic Radio[0], a non-commercial Pandora-like radio station for my religious community. It's been going for several years now, and enjoys a nice user base. It started out in Silverlight, then KnockoutJS,
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This isn't a new database. This is a rebranding of the generically-named Azure DocumentDB, plus some new features.
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Nope. Windows Forms is a UI technology tied to Windows itself.(It's implemented as wrapper over WndProc and Windows Common Controls.) Windows Forms is not cross platform, and VS for Mac doesn't change this. VS for Mac is intended
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This breaks down when you deal with classic object oriented concepts like inheritance, encapsulation, or polymorphism. This is why object/relational mapping (ORM) has been called the Vietnam of Computer Science[0]. [0]: http:/&#x
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No. You are mistaken. The National Review is a vociferous opponent of the alt-right, and has been since the beginning of that movement. The National Review is American conservative small government. The alt-right is European-style nationali
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Have you looked at TypeScript's non-null types[0]? It gives you compile-time checks for values that might be null. I personally love it and use it for all my projects. [0]: https://blog.mariusschulz.com/2016/09&#x2
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Small correction: padding is top right bottom left. In other words, clockwise.
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Doing a bit more digging, I just upgraded to Chrome 57, and then checked window.WebAssembly. It's there and apparently functional. Unless it's somehow disabled beyond that, it appears WebAssembly is working in Chrome 57.
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You're right. However, looking at the Chrome Platform Status page on Web Assembly[0], it says it's enabled by default in Chromium 57. "Status in Chromium: Enabled by default (launch bug) in: Chrome for desktop release 57 Chro
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I work with the poor often, and I think this article is off a bit. I work with a group of homeless shelters in my job, and my local religious congregation regularly volunteers at homeless shelters, food shelves, multiple times a month. And
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Not just the poor, but even homeless often have phones. I'm the author of YSN[0], which is a web and mobile app for helping homeless youth in Minnesota. Whenever I show the app to people, the usual response is: "Wait, homeless you
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I heard this directly from a higher up at MS during a conference afterparty. He said he couldn't wait for browser support for Web Assembly to go live so he can show the things they're working on. And yeah, for C# to WASM, we'
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In case one is blinded by partisan bias, remember than Hillary Clinton made a similar statement[0] against the pharmaceutical industry during her campaign, and likewise sent stocks temporarily falling. [0]: https://www.thestreet.
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Definitely not the end of JavaScript. But it is the end of JavaScript-only. It's likely we'll see other languages targeting WebAssembly in the next few years. I heard rumors Microsoft is working on something in that area. If I wer
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I gave you an example of how same-sex marriage can, and has, infringed on religious liberty. You dismissed it as pertaining to anti-discrimination laws, even though it specifically was caused by same-sex marriage laws and involved a dispute
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FYI, the author noted that wasm-util[0] compiles TypeScript to WebAssembly. Also, the author notes that future versions of WebAssembly may contain garbage collection features, which would be relevant to TypeScript. "Garbage collection:
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Answer: We want less regulations all around so as to have a smaller government. The exception is when regulations prevent infringement on protected liberties. For example, we support the Bill of Rights' 1st amendment which states the g

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