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by zzalpha 9y ago
So don't try to time the market. Except this time.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I'm baffled... why aren't they compiling to JS? They're cheating the runtime out of the ability to JIT the resulting code, which seems like a huge penalty.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Vim but not Emacs? Yikes. This is a flamewar waiting to happen...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Did this subthread get detached? I can't find it in the original post...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
This isn't a response. It's a dodge. Instead of responding to the substance of my reply, you've just pivoted to talking about "ridicule", which is a completely different issue that is only a symptom of the issues
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by zzalpha 9y ago
If you want something comprehensible and predictable, go use something else! Reflect upon this comment for a moment. What you just said is, if we want a comprehensible, predictable development ecosystem, we should just use something othe
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Nice little write-up! Thanks! And, I should just point out: the original commenter, and myself, may have our... let's call it lack of patience with the JS community. But don't be discouraged by a little bitterness... as you men
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Well, so first of all, it wasn't a rant, it was a joke and a bit of a jab, and you gotta admit these days there's good reason for people to be... uhh... skeptical about yet-another-JS-library. Second, that reaction isn't abou
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Well, to be a bit crotchety for a moment: Copying someone else's idea but doing it a little smaller or faster isn't exactly revolutionary. At this point, UI libraries are turning into the JS equivalent of programming languages (
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Stupid monkeys!
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Truly, in the JS world, it is the best of times, it is the blurst of times...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
For an ostensibly business oriented publication, this "Team Kalanick" BS makes the selection of the CEO for a billion dollar unicorn sound like grade school gossip. And the coverage itself is no better. Is this really how far fin
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Very nice, two straw men in the same comment!
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by zzalpha 9y ago
We can't learn from our own mistakes now . What makes you think, 2,000 years from now, our ancestors will look back and a) remember what happened accurately, and b) learn from it? I can imagine someone in the future saying "No ma
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The Fermi paradox still applies if, every time society reaches a point of advanced development, it sets itself back to the stone age by triggering an extinction level event.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
That would seem to only emphasize my point... if you're planning to be a taxi company, it would seem you'd be even more likely to fall afoul of regulations if you don't play by the rules designed to cover taxi companies. In
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Fascinating that they mentioned taxi medallions as part of their market and benefits analysis, yet completely ignored regulatory hurdles... you gotta wonder if that was accidental or deliberate. I want to say accidental, but given what we&
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Tell us more! What's the breakdown for your actual all-in commute costs on a per-mile basis, and how have you arrived at those numbers?
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Active voice usually requires fewer words to express the same idea. As a result, the language becomes more direct and clear. So my opinion is that, yes, active voice is almost always better. But holy cow is it a hard habit to break...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Oh gosh, that's a cakewalk of a commute. Thanks for the details!
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by zzalpha 9y ago
OOC, what's your daily commute in total hours spent on the road, and what does it cost you monthly?
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by zzalpha 9y ago
What's your living situation that makes $1150 per month possible? Room mates?
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by zzalpha 9y ago
So 3400/mo or less in expenses? Mind breaking that down? What's your housing situation? Transportation costs?
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by zzalpha 9y ago
So room mate and no transportation costs. That context helps a lot, thanks!
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Just a gut check, here: assuming you have kids at 32, and start working at 22, it'd be a bloody miracle if you made 5 mil gross , let alone after taxes and expenses. That's half a million per year, every year, starting from entr
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by zzalpha 9y ago
So how does that rent compare to the mean in the area, and what are you renting at that price? Because, as an outsider, that seems remarkably low (the averages for SF that I can find suggest 2-3k for a studio or 1-bedroom). Also, how does
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Given how quickly many people reacted negatively to women's suffrage, the Voting Rights Act and removal of Jim Crow laws, the legalization of gay marriage, the removal of confederate statues and symbols... I'd say history is at le
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by zzalpha 9y ago
It's interesting to me that you agree with my previous statements about using approximations to be rational, then engage in that exact process to judge these people, and then refuse to offer them the opportunity to do the same. Uhh,
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by zzalpha 9y ago
As I've pointed out, it' ENTIRELY rational to use available data to make a decision if the stakes are high and the duration of opportunity to counter it may be short. Sure. And you're assuming that's what happened her
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by zzalpha 9y ago
It's depressing that you point to the animosity of communities that have been traditionally on the sour end of many transit projects and claim their reaction is irrational. All you've done is eloquently explained why their irrat

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