vectorjohn

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by vectorjohn 14y ago
People inevitably bring up population. The simple answer is that living forever would have no impact on population at all. We are already very close to the max population our planet can sustain (maybe past it) so we need to deal with that
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by vectorjohn 14y ago
I would frame it this way: Say you were given some gene therapy at age 15 or so, and you will never die of natural causes. Would you take a pill at age 80 to end it? The way the survey questions were asked must have just been terrible. I
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by vectorjohn 15y ago
I know it sounds silly, and I joked about it for a while before trying it. I put HN, reddit, and news.google.com in my hosts file pointing to localhost. The extra few seconds it would take me to modify that file, and the knowledge that I
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by vectorjohn 15y ago
Your argument makes it pretty clear it is you that have not used Javascript very much. setTimeout( 100, imp.q) // DOESN'T DO ANYTHING, 100 is not a function And if you thought about it for more than a few seconds, you would realize that t
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by vectorjohn 15y ago
Hah, no reason to get defensive. Javascript is a great language. If you don't like it, you are free to feel that way. But there is a huge number of people who like it. Personally, it is my favorite programming language. It just feels r
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by vectorjohn 15y ago
No we have not. No need to be an ass.
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by vectorjohn 15y ago
Wrong. What makes JavaScript popular is how good it is. You can't explain its mass popularity growth in non browser setting (node js ) with its ubiquity. It is a great language, and perhaps ubiquity was needed to get a lot of people to try
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by vectorjohn 15y ago
It would be easier to just learn the language. JavaScript I not c. JavaScript is not Java. JavaScript is not python. If it was one of those languages it would be named that and there would be no JavaScript books, just dom and browser books.
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by vectorjohn 15y ago
Couchdb keeps old versions of documents. And it is document oriented. So there's that.
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by vectorjohn 15y ago
Yeah, even already knowing git isn't necessary. If you didn't learn git, you could learn it, and then you have the skills to use it for all sorts of stuff. No specialized wiki software can be a DVCS or backup system.
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by vectorjohn 15y ago
I wish that benefits and perhaps vacation related questions were on here. Next time I look for a job, a sane amount of vacation is something I am going to demand, and I think I would sacrifice significant salary to get it.
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by vectorjohn 15y ago
I liked how when I read the article, the first picture looks like Hitler out of the corner of my eyes.
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by vectorjohn 15y ago
Did the comment say the announcer was a man?