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And another ranting against JavaScript claiming it to be a horrible language...
The author does not give any evidence why JS would be a bad language.

I write JS-code on a daily basis for over 10 years now, mostly in a functional fashion, and I get things done on time without much headache.
Also I know the platforms well and their issues.

The bad side of JS is not the language or the underlying platforms, but the huge amount of substandard programmers creating aweful libraries and frameworks which are used by even less capable hackers.
How? The second bar graph shows the bottom 20% consume more than the top 20% once SS contributions are removed. The poor are getting a free ride off the rich.
I'm one of those people with loads of ideas stewing at the back of my head. They come and go (out of fashion) but one idea stuck around for more than five years. It's an edtech for children, so by the end of last year, I decided that maybe I should take the plunge. Plus I was getting bored of freelancing for corporations. First step is to find out whether I actually like to work with children - because I think that's important even though it's edtech - and whether the assumptions I made were sensible enough. My dream is to make reading (English) as universal and enjoyable as possible, particularly for disadvantaged children.

So off I went to South East Asia. I volunteered at a semi-Montessori school for poor and refugee kids for three months. To talk about the experience will take much more than a single post, but let me just say that without it, I would still be feeling that I'm so clever of thinking about this idea when I was actually faffing about. The reality of poverty and hardship came down like a ton of bricks. I saw clearly the barriers that the children had, for just being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. And the usefulness of books and the Internet stuck out like ... they're essential, they're the only fair chance these kids can ever get. (One thing I also learnt is that mobile phones are practically universal, poor or not.)

So that made the idea all the more urgent. And another thing that I never expected to pick up was that I gained a lot more confidence - I'm the shy type who would shake and get sick just thinking about presenting in front of my team - but in those classrooms, man, it's merciless, and plus you love those kids and have the ultimate responsibility to manage them ...

I wouldn't say that this fully prepared me for the CEO job but it's definitely a strong stepping stone for me :) And those memories really stay with you forever. So if anyone's thinking about volunteering - because this feeling doesn't occur but in specific times - I highly recommend you to go for it. It will at the very least teach you how to give without expecting anything back in return.
Except there are limits to what constitutes Probable Cause. A cop still needs to demonstrate that there was reason to believe they had Probable Cause, and things like a person's skin color don't factor into it.

I threw the thing in about skin color not because I have any reason to believe you are racist, but because we are talking about cops, who in many areas have been shown to be quite racist, and have been shown to pull persons of color over far more than white people.
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Setting up a Java environment is about as simple as you can get: you use the JDK installer, and maybe the installer for a Java IDE.
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> That's a gross mischaracterisation of data-driven decision making.

It is! And I'm v. pro D-DDM. But as I read your post -- given it has been flagged to death I don't think I'm alone -- you didn't appear to be calling for that. As I recall, you appeared to be saying "who cares what editorial think, work out what you want and get some damn data" (which is where the straw man comes from, fwiw).
> but these problems do warn people to stay away from the React ecosystem

No they don't. There is bad advice for every framework/language that exists. Following bad advice means carefully trusting sources. It is 100% on the user to determine whether an article applies, or it's plain wrong.

> If the React team doesn't want people to stay away, it's in their interest to do something about it.

Do what exactly? Start sending take-down notices for poorly written articles? Would you use a chainsaw to make a miniature, and then saw the chainsaw manufacturers need to "do something about it"?

People are so weird about frameworks.
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Intoxication is real as well, but I rarely apply any of my drunken epiphanies when sober.
> I can't opt out

You absolutely can opt out by choosing to exclude employers that are either mandated, or who have chosen despite not being mandated, to participate in SS. Or by choosing to live by some means other than wage-labor (if you make all your income from capital investments, you have successfully opted out of SS.) No one is coercing you to the contrary (well, except the coercion to wage-labor that affects most of the population under capitalism and which has not generally been eliminated in modern mixed economies; but even there there are some wage-labor options outside of the Social Security mandate.)
It's a feedback loop. Without developers a platform can't thrive but without users of the platform the developers can't afford to write apps for the platform.
Thanks for taking the time to describe your experiences, i found them very touching to read. It reminded me of my own recent volunteering experiences, which also happen to be with disabled children.
I've seen more university calendars these days copy CMU and add functional programming like SML as the new preferred intro course, esp European universities it really is probably one of the best student languages for understanding/reasoning about large programs by using types and it puts everybody on equal footing since normally most first year students have zero exposure to functional programming. https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/the-dog-tha...
That "rot" likely started centuries before anyone even imagined a computer for an "array" to exist on.
My question wasn't about changing the size of the propellers. I was wondering if one would get more range by substituting a battery pack for a gas tank and a tiny generator.
I don't think we should have checkpoints, ever, unless perhaps there is an imminent thread you are trying to stop, like a felon racing away in the car and you know she's there. In my state, Washington, I have never seen a police checkpoint. Somehow we have managed to survive up to this point
Replying at all and in such a passive aggressive tone is petty. If you're confident in your technology (and people making something as widely used as react/redux ought to be confident), you can let it speak for itself.

As for how much this actually set the record straight or how much the original post was false information, I guess I'll have to disagree.

Nothing in the original post was false per se, and I, for one, agreed with everything in it, every time I've tried to get into react since it was launched and it's always the same annoyances. It's just not for me and it's not for the author of the original post.

Two different points in OP's reply were "well yeah, but it'll be different in the next version/future!" (amusingly, another point was "well, just don't use the new version!") which means that the original post was... right.
".. However, StackOverflow’s survey on age shows that there are just about 13% of developers after 40. Where are the others?"

Obviously not on StackOverflow. Perhaps they have enough experience and knowledge to not need the site because they either know how to read tech books and sites to get the info they need when they have a problem using pre-existing docs, or conversely, are fully able to debug issues themselves.

That's what I do, anyway. (I'm 46)
All of above is true! H1Bs have to go thru some agony for 5 years or till they get Green Cards. But all of my friends who landed on H1B in 2000 are doing great in 10-15 years now owning multiple homes and many running own businesses. You should also take into account that H1Bs do not carry heavy Student debt like American students do. They get inexpensive education abroad and start working the day they land in USA. They also share accommodation and save money in case they have to go back to home country. I've also worked for a decade with Indian outsourcing companies and understand their business model. As businesses responsible for creating shareholder wealth, they run for profits under current legal framework and even IBM, Accenture, Deloitte, Cap Gemini and other large Multinational consulting firms employ hundreds of thousands of employees in India and bring them to USA on H1B visas in similar business models. H1B reform is important but even more important is to train US students in new technologies. I'm a naturalized US citizen living in San Jose for 17 years. My son is in high school in San Jose and by the time he is ready for college, the 4 year college cost will be $200K. I think that needs to be addressed along with H1B reform. We need to lower entry barrier for US students to get into Science and technology by making college more affordable.
Amphetamine bodyload? Shotgun 7-8 coffees and you'll know ;)

Nervous energy would be a better word, I guess.
I don't do any web-dev, so I apologize for the simplistic question: what alternatives to JavaScript exist for web-dev? The article hints to there being many alternatives, and that JavaScript may not be right for every project...but I can't think of any alternatives.

Python? C++? Do these languages have strong support for web stuff?
Go watch the first couple videos in the YouTube playlist in this blog post.

The cop is calm and professional, despite the antagonizing behavior of the "CopChasers".
I agree that a quality university should teach better languages for the bulk of the major. The class does say "No prior programming experience required" though.

I'm making a similar guess as I believe you are that a lot of non-CS students are taking this class. If that's the case, it works great for them if they want to use a simple language to do some automation later in life in some non programming related job.

From what I can tell, this class isn't part of the CS degree -http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/schoolofengineering/compu... unless this hasn't been updated yet.
Neuroscience and even brain-computer interfaces have indeed had decades of research and billions (though not hundreds of billions) in funding. As a partial proof of concept, BCI's are already capable of multiple-degree-of-freedom control of prosthetics. And there just so happens to be a glut of PhDs and post-docs in the sciences looking for a way to apply their training.

Of course it is true that Neuralink is a much larger leap from the current state of the art than mass production electric vehicles or reusable rocket stages. But is it a larger leap than a million people living on Mars? These ventures have many valuable milestones along the way, even if the ultimate goal proves unreachable.
A bigger concern for me is the grating cheerfulness in what is a very critical article.

Don't pretend you're not fighting fire with fire with this article. You're mad and you're showing it. When you say stuff like...

>>To sum up, I love that you brought up these concerns in an article.

I don't believe you! Disingenuous.

(You should also think about whether or not the Riot.js author is worth responding to. Just because he's a framework author doesn't mean that framework has ever been held in high regard.)
This seems like a really interesting project. I've been recently playing with trying to get something like nntp to work over point-to-point HAM connections. This would solve a lot of the end goals I've been wanting to get to!
Then why not block based on bots that ignore robots text or make requests too quickly like I suggested? Looking for sub-strings in the UA header is a hack at best.
No. That is not fair at all.
Well the question you fail to ask is, are the conditions the same at inception to today? Why is every imbalance a racial issue? Is that the issue guaranteed to induce the most debate?

Are rich insert-minority-here have similar lifespans to rich-non-minority peoples? How much does location affect the outcome? Inner city poor are likely to be disproportionately affected by violence; murder where as those in rural areas might not get quick response to medical emergencies.

All that really matters is that people who get to the appropriate age are paid similar benefits. If you want to mitigate longevity then what is the option, terminate benefits after twenty years?

sorry I just find it abhorrent how some see race in every system and how it must be purposeful when declared
I understand now, and it's hard not to agree with that perspective.

On the other hand, because of the fundamental relationship of the free press and health of democracy, shouldn't there be some kind of criteria for validity the same way that health claims in advertising do, for example? I understand that some things are subjective and impossible to apply criteria to, but what about cases where people are knowingly publishing demonstrable falsehoods to mislead masses of people. Seems like a major problem.
Btw, im not sure what my opinion is on this.... Im just "devil advocating", I guess.

EDIT:/foundational/fundamental Im having a hard time with words today. :/
For as much as Musk goes back to 'first principles', I am unclear how, from first principles, a metal electrode can healthily and sustainably interface with a living human cell. From first principles the size, material, sensitivity, and most importantly, energy dissipation and efficiency of metals are incompatible with living tissue in the long run, as far as I know. There might be ways to get around any of the above features, but in doing so you often end up sacrificing exactly the point of the chip (power vs speed, sensitivity vs utility, size vs sensitivity).

To my mind the far more reasonable mechanism to interact with living neural tissue is given just a cursory 'in the future' remark in the mentioned essay, optogenetics. If you use light for the transmission of signals you get rid of many of the above issues. But, unlike Facebook's tech, you would actually need direct line-of-sight to the cells. The trouble with optogenetics currently is there is the same delivery problems associated with using CRISPR in a live organism. On the other hand, if you solve that delivery problem, you not only get all the medical benefits of being able to fix mutated genes, but you also get the (from first principles) useful access to optical I/O in the brain.

And the fact is that optogentics actually has some significant capabilities even today. It's much more of a bottom-up approach, but that is traditionally the direction Musk has used for his success:

http://web.stanford.edu/group/dlab/optogenetics/sequence_inf...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mouse+optogenet...

Rockets and electric cars were invented decades, if not a century before Musk came in and 'redid' the technologies from first principles. In this case he seems to have approached this like a rich man, not a principled engineer - rather than from first principles, more simply, "let just hire lots of smart people". And I don't think the result will be without utility - lots of good things have come from such research groups. But the result of this experiment will look nothing like the commercial success of Tesla or SpaceX. A best-case scenario is a bell-labs investment into a multi-decade long exploration of technology.
Linked lists take more memory than arrays, so even in your example it's not as obvious as your making it out to be. Further, your ordering assumes no deletes.
> I don't have a horse in this race at all, just noting the inconsistencies.

PHP had some implementation issues that made the language god awful. Saying it's the same thing is a straw man.

> Really weird comeback at the end there. We do expect experts in various fields to work on educating the public, especially in regards to widely believed but inaccurate ideas.

They do, with their official docs, which are well-written. What, exactly, do you want them to do about third parties?
> How can China expect the rest of the world to use Chinese when even they themselves don't know it 100%?

And there goes Shakespeare. On average there's 15,000 words per play. I bet most readers do not have the education to know every single word in that 15,000.

"The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries." [1]

[1]: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-words-are...
I don't see it as disrespectful in the slightest. It looks like a response to some strawman arguments (eg. React 16 being a complete rewrite) and obvious but rather minor things (eg. className).

Also, if I understand it correctly, the original author is a maintainer of a competing framework, heavily inspired by React. So, this is not exactly an impartial account of an 'experienced dev'. Maybe I'm reading too much into that but it's not something I like seeing in the FOSS world.
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Please stop commenting like this, no matter what you're responding to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, you can't really blame them. One could make the argument that once providing a service to users you have some responsibility towards them, but I don't think it overrides the case for them to be acquired.

I can't help feeling that there is something rather dreadful about this state of affairs, however. It just seems like too many good things get acquired and shut down. That could be the fault of the market/culture/prevailing business models/app stores in not making it profitable enough for developers to want to keep going with their single app, and it could also be the fault of the acquires for shutting down good things.

I'm unsure as to the solution.
Would be good to have plastic waste broken down, but be careful not to take down our whole civilization with it. Almost everything today is made out of plastic...
> There shouldn't be a 100x difference in income between People.

That's a political argument, not a valid business argument.
"To confirm it wasn't just the chewing mechanism of the caterpillars degrading the plastic, the team mashed up some of the worms and smeared them on polyethylene bags, with similar results."

A disturbing but effective way to test the hypothesis.
NYT reporting of the study: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/well/move/an-hour-of-runn...
> because it disproportionately benefits some races over others.

That's not what racism means, stop abusing a word to further your own agenda.

I mean what next, skin pigmentation is racist because it causes higher rates of skin cancer in some races than others?
In a similar vein, http://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ creates plausible-sounding man pages for git internals.
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What constitutes handwriting Chinese?

With a pen/pencil? Every where. School? Memo? Sticky notes?
That's my main concern with LSD microdosing. Especially in Vancouver, where fentanyl is finding its way into pretty much every illicit drug.
Absolutely not. We hold cops to a higher standard. And I would have liked this guy to have gone home to his family.
Which is 100% on react-router. That has nothing to do with React. This would be akin to issues you have with some Ember plugin on the Ember team. It's odd.
I know of research groups that intentionally cite other members of the same group to get citation numbers up. Sure, some of it is legit, but some is clearly not - particularly when actively ignoring relevant work from other groups.
AngelList is a competitor, at least within our little sphere of the economy.
>mkdir -p ~/go/src/project

Where is the mkdir icon on my windows desktop?
Setting up Java or Python isn't that difficult. At the very least, being able to follow the instructions to set up either environment is a screener for people who aren't suited for something as detail oriented as programming, IMO.
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To provide a little bit of context, it is known that globular clusters should produce a lot of black holes, but it has long been believed that they should retain very few, if any of these black holes. One reason for this is that black holes should receive a kick upon their formation. The gravitational potential of a globular cluster is weak enough that this would generally be enough to kick the black hole out of the cluster.

For those that remain in the cluster, the black holes would be much more massive than the rest of the stars in the cluster. Globular clusters undergo a phenomenon called mass segregation, where the most massive stars settle to the center of the cluster and lighter stars occupy the outer regions. So over time the black holes would sink to the center of the cluster where they would interact and form binaries with each other. These binary-binary interactions would, over time, kick single black holes out of the cluster. Since these interactions happen on timescales that are much shorter than the lifetime of the cluster, the received wisdom about twenty years ago was that globular clusters should have only a couple of black holes left, if any at all.

In 2007, Thomas Maccarone (who is an author on this paper) discovered a black hole in a globular cluster in another galaxy. It wasn't until 2012 that any were discovered in a globular cluster around the Milky Way. Now that computers have gotten fast enough that it has started to become possible to simulate the dynamics of globular clusters, theorists have found that globular clusters retain a much higher fraction of black holes than they originally thought. The reason for this seems to be that the distribution in black hole masses leads the black hole population to remain better mixed with ordinary stars than was originally thought.
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Would one be correct to regard as a trivial inference from your argument the statement that Social Security is also ageist, because in the aggregate it benefits older people over younger? If not, why not?
It's a precursor of polyester. Perhaps polyethilene can be recycled into polyester?
OTOH, I wonder whether the opportunity costs of paying social security taxes are disproportionately higher for the rich than for the non-rich. What I mean is if the rich, instead of paying social security taxes, were able to invest that money, are they likely to generate much greater returns than the amount of social security benefits that they end up receiving in the current system?
There has to be enough nostalgia over Tecmo Super Bowl to warrant such a thing. People organize tournaments all over the country, a car company based a commercial on it, and stuff like the NES Classic shows a lot of interest in throwback gaming.

Whoever owns Tecmo's IP now put out a modern version of it, but it wasn't very good and was based on the the 16-bit version, not the 8-bit classic.

I'm sure there are issues still using the player's names, but those could be replaced with something generic, like QB Eagles :)
Let's please try to have a thoughtful, on-topic discussion, even if you disagree with something that was said.
Uh don't get this debate restarted https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877 played some(?) role in Larry Garfield pretty high profile ousting ... three years later. It's one ugly topic.