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The goal of this article is to provide a historical context of how JavaScript tools have evolved to what they are today in 2017.

...

We went from plain HTML and JS to using a package manager to automatically download 3rd party packages, a module bundler to create a single script file, a transpiler to use future JavaScript features, and a task runner to automate different parts of the build process.

Definitely a lot of moving pieces here, especially for beginners.

Modern JavaScript can definitely be frustrating to work with as it continues to change and evolve at a rapid pace.

But even though it may seem at times like re-inventing the wheel,...
I wondered about this. I have some Indian coworkers who make a lot more than me who rotate between a tiny amount of clothes.
Up until recently it would have been non controversial. With Graal/Truffle it's possible to run many languages on the JVM whilst bypassing bytecode entirely. Those language implementations usually run as fast or much faster than other runtimes. It includes LLVM bitcode that does manual memory management, which can run at least some benchmarks about as fast as gcc would.
I don't know how it looks like nowadays, but I remember Apple forums used to have questions how to run as root to avoid having to deal with such dialogs.
It's not public, it's just massively replicated. Your data on the blockchain is encrypted. Only you with your private keys can decrypt it and decide with whom to share it with.
You mean the banks that still run systems on fortran?
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My two cents : I use linux for like ten years, and never touched a ms-windows during this time. Recently, I wanted to use windows only software, so I took a Nuc (intel small computer) I own, and install windows 10 on it. While ubuntu, xunbuntu, alpine and so on work out of the box with any nucs, with windows, there was no wireless after install.I had to download a intel driver installer (in another computer, copy the .exe to a usb key, and install it with a gui setup program (click yes yes yes agree yes yes).

I had the clear impression that right now, Ubuntu is the friendly way while MS-Windows is the diy/hacker way.
You should look at the models being produced by Jeff Hawkins and numenta. Their neuron is based on the neuron of our neocortex which are homogeneous. Theyve had great success using their ANN across different domains with very little to no differences in settings. The magic really is in the encoding of the information stream into the Sparse Ditributed Representation that best represents the features you're looking for.
This is an utterly pathological test case. mkfile makes a lot of syscalls which do very little work. Heck you could have made the batch size 1 byte; that would really show a slowdown!
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It's mostly about the way permissions are handled. User-oriented permissions are about protecting the system from the user. This is a useful notion when people connect to a multiuser server via a terminal, or for shared network resources, but is nigh useless and generally just gets in the way for personal computing devices.

The mobile OSs orient the permissions system around the applications, protecting the user's data and resources.
Woods Hole is a fine research institution. I think you can assume they were trying to make the concept accessible to layman.

And I think they are trying to not get into all the complexities (yes, Na+ and Cl- ions are added/removed in some natural processes, but many times less readily than water). One could easily point tectonic processes and salt loss via evaporite layer deposition, but you don't lose a lot by not going into the weeds.
Null checks are effectively free on the JVM. One of the advantages of using null-as-real-null that is rarely discussed by functional programming fans is that null is well supported by the hardware. Just keep the bottom pages unmapped and an attempt to access a null pointer will trigger a hardware fault. If you don't do it that way then you have to do the null checks with branches in software, which bloats your code footprint and now with Spectre perhaps requires slower code too.
> Yes, syscalls are expensive and most likely became very expensive with the Meltdown patch

> The headline is completely bogus.

One of your statements is therefore bogus.
Kpatch works on (or has an equivalent in) OpenBSD?
I think about this phrase regularly (and thank you, because I couldn't remember it precisely anymore). I left a [very] physical job and started to get a bit soft; this is one of the meditations that sprung me back into action.

There's still another, immature, nagging thought that maybe this is what they taught their young pupils with other ends in mind. It's just through the modern, more lofty lens we view these philosophers with that we attribute much more noble intent to such aphorisms. It's a bit cartoonish to think so, but it amuses me.
Way too impressive goals considering the available time? And no possibility to re-evaluate them, because the whole hardware side was depending on some of the new stuff being ready.

For example the new ideas for the UI were quite interesting, but it was quite obvious they had ship it way before it was ready. They were interesting, because they solve one (IMHO) big issue: ordinary users have hard time taking full use of their screen real-estate. Windows are hard to manage and people end up switching between full screen apps, while it would be in many case more effective to use them side-by-side. A tiling window manager would help here.
> Any thoughts?

Yes. My thought is that when one is planning for others to live a certain way to benefit society, that telling them to go into debt to benefit society may work over the long term over a large population. However, this only "works" if you treat people as interchangeable numbers, and if too many of the people deviate from your plan, the debt driven society will stop working as planned.

However, when one runs their own budget which needs to last through the ups and down, and presumably get one into a better place than they started, saving or investing is better than going into debt.

Just because there are multiple books advocating you spend your money ... well - the old adage is, "Don't believe everything you read."
Likewise. Can you reach out to me privately? I'd love to have independent corroboration.
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Google S2 (a square-based alternative to Uber's H3) works by projecting the surface of the sphere onto the surface of a cube, then subdividing each face of the cube. So there's still some distortion around the edges and corners of the cube, but nowhere near as bad as a naive longitude/latitude strategy.
I've been a huge fan of JavaScript since 2005. My roots are in Fortran, Pascal, C/C++, ASM, later Perl and Python and Java. JS is by far is the most convenient language I've ever worked with and thanks to BabelJS it is even better.

Yes JS is not perfect and it has a fair dose of inconsistencies but 99% of the time it just feels right and it works well. Also thanks to NPM the community is alive and healthy, surpassing the success of Perl's CPAN and Ruby's Gems and Java's Maven and what not.

If you haven't tried JS yet, you should!

EDIT:

P.S. I talked to HD Moore back in the days during the Metasploit rewrite why Ruby was chosen for the next iteration of Metasploit. The reason was that Ruby was so much closer to Perl then JS and I don't think Node was around. I wish I tried harder to make my case as it would have been a huge asset now.
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I also remember it was too chatty (very much like Windows 10 now). You wouldn't spend a minute before the OS would ask you to authorise an outgoing connection or something else.
This has been thrown around for years on the BTC scene, and it's just not a killer app. Nor do I believe that such people are willing to use cryptocurrencies for such transfers, in their millions.

And that's before we get on to whether it is moral to facilitate such anyway...
You’ve lived in the Netherlands, and you experienced people eating out there as a default?

That is entirely opposite to my experience. I’m genuinely struggling to understand how you’ve drawn that conclusion.
Try the Cinnamon WM on Linux. It's the best of both Mac and Windows' interfaces without the worst of either.
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From my very subjective experience, and my long trip around India in 2017, I can agree on all points raised by the Economist article.

The state of education is appalling. And yet at the same time, you see tons of those in the low 90% of the population checking out Facebook in their cheap phones with 4G connectivity.

Either way, my outlook for India is very positive. IMO They need only 1 or 2 more generations to truly rival or even surpass China.
Well, the first Pope was literally called The Rock (Peter). Jesus appointed him by saying "you are The Rock, and I'll build my church on this rock".

Exactly what he meant has led to centuries of debate between protestants and catholics.
Why would anyone ever want to let a 3rd party company manage their bank account? I barely trust my bank yo do that...

I'm afraid that some companies will try to force it upon customers as well. Starting with: "If you allow us to manage your purchase it will get even faster (oh and we get access to all of your financial info), and you also get a useless gadget!"
> Opinion polling and independent (western) research there has confirmed the results many times

Opinion polling conducted before Russian occupation say 38% wanted to join Russia, 40% wanted to remain an autonomous republic within Ukraine.

Here’s a link (Russian): http://www.km.ru/world/2012/09/14/polozhenie-russkoyazychnog...
uBlock Origin with 3rd party scripts disabled by default. That seems to get rid of the vast majority of annoyances.
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JavaScript programming and more importantly JavaScript way of thinking is quickly becoming equivalent of company in need of hiring few good programmers and solving it by hiring more HR 'professionals' first.

Let's solve this pile by throwing more useless stuff on top of it.

Yes, I do have badge that says I can say stuff like that. You know I am right even if you can't agree in public. /rant
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'scrot' is the name of a popular linux screenshot utility. I have never heard of anyone using it in any other context. Well, until now anyway :P
I've had the same experience installing Ubuntu on a computer with a broadcom wireless chip. It all just comes down to chance unless you buy a hardware + OS combo, which generally actually means mac or Windows. If you install your own OS you have to expect there may be driver incompatibilities, that's just how it is.
"Screencap" would be a less objectionable term.
If you mean the syntaxt tree, it is printed to the XCode output as text, I just made a screenshot and put it into to the Playground screenshot so it looks better.
On the note of N64, N64 emulation, especially its GPU portions, are still incredibly hard to get right and has been fraught with problems for a long time. On modern systems the performance still can be less than desirable. One of the saving graces to this has been GlideN64, https://github.com/gonetz/GLideN64/releases

But even that is still in a lot of development. There's a lot of magic the N64 hardware uses apparently.
Agreed. From my experience living in Spain and Germany, at least for me and friends, eating out is not the norm. We reserve dinners in restaurants for the weekend only. Often also, we cook together, which is lots of fun. Indians cook together in big groups and I love that part of their culture.
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You can ALWAYS make time. It's a matter of whether you're disciplined enough to do so.
Very much not the same. In the United States sleeping on the street is associated with addiction and mental illness, or in teenagers with abuse. In India it is commonplace for high-functioning people to sleep on the streets on in illegally constructed shacks with no water or sanitation, for purely economic reasons.

There are a lot of articles published saying half of New Yorkers are a single paycheck away from homelessness, 60% of Americans are a single emergency expense from homelessness, etc., but every month lots of those people lose their jobs and have emergency expenses, and they aren't flooding onto the street or into emergency shelters. Those alarming-sounding numbers come with really important caveats like "without relying on family" and "without relying on friends" or even "without going into debt." Having access to those resources is a really important aspect of social class. Even the people shitting in the sidewalk in San Francisco, a lot of them have friends and family who have money and would love to help them if they could figure out how. The difference when you're homeless in India is that everybody you know is either in the same circumstances as you or knows so many people who are that it doesn't make sense to single you out for help.
Nope, here's an example:

http://avaazpress.s3.amazonaws.com/558_Crimea.Referendum.Pol...

70% saying they'd pick to join Russia. Phone poll just before the vote, by Gfk Ukraine, 600 participants.

There were other such polls after the vote by western polling agencies too. But I don't have the links handy right now.
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By all means, I cannot understand how cooking can be more expensive than eating out. The only possible exception is if you value the time spent in cooking much more. This I do, and I basically only drink bulletproof and soylent shakes.
At the U.S. Naval Academy, the nomenclature for meals is quite literal: morning meal; noon meal; evening meal. [0]

[0] https://www.usna.edu/Student-Life/Daily-Schedule.php
How do people buying (for example) expensive coffee at Starbucks improve "Health, Living Index"? Can you walk me through the process?
Not really. The new generation hires cooks. Works out far cheaper than eating out. The demand for cooks has skyrocketed in my neighborhood.
First you need to be accredited by the FCA, either as a third party provider or as a banking institute.

Not 100% sure what comes next.
I think it was modified after being posted.
>why mRNA? Why not skip the middle man and go straight for proteins?

There is no polypeptide decoding machinery in the cell, proteins are functional chains with a lot of structure.

However cells do use external protein structure to communicate with neighboring cells (via protein-protein interactions) now we know they can send messages via RNA as well.
Yep. It's sometimes easier to eat out downtown than sit in traffic to get home to eat.
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Windows 10 has its own UI problems. It is very chatty, possibly even more than Vista, there is an almost permanent flow of notifications on the bottom right corner of the screen. When searching for something in the start menu the result is completely unpredictable, and searching for "control panel", "mmc" or "adapters" usually yields nothing, but sometimes it does. The permanently evolving two control panels makes that even when you learn where a setting is, it can move to another panel within 6 months. There are many rough edges. Like you launch a remote desktop connection, you get a grey window asking for credentials, the login is not selected by default and no keyboard shortcut allows you to select the login box, you must use the mouse. I really question whether Microsoft engineers even use their own OS.
More than 94% of net new electricity capacity in the USA from renewables in 2017
Did you make enough money as a regular sw engineer to put into seed investing or did you get your investing capital from somewhere else?
People said the said the same about ATMs. They were wrong.
One thing I don't understand about human intelligence:

Why do instances like this one publish their articles on Medium? As a reader, I am annoyed that Medium puts two dick bars on the page so it is hard to read. As a writer, I would not want to have my content controlled by a third party. And not have all these links to the third party on my content. What counterweights this? Are there any benefits of giving your content to Medium?
I mean everybody wants this but even the greatest ‘self-managers’ need management to do stuff like this:

- put their work in context
- remove dumb obstacles for them
- ensure that they are working in ways that benefit the team
- check they are having an ok time interacting with others and sharing knowledge
- check they have not said yes to too many things
- ensure they don’t get swayed by better offers
- acknowledge their work

Etc etc ... management is not about enforcing deadlines and correcting problems (which you seldom have to do with truly independent people). There needs to be the right level of communication with each employee so you are not in their way but not hanging them out to dry, and this needs to be maintained even in times when there are no problems.
My roots are the same as yours (except Java). I am not a professional developer, but rather code to simplify my work, so some projects or write as a hobby.

I like JS but one of the things which are horrendous is debugging. Pycharm allows me to debug Python code in a simple, intuitive way.

I still need to find a setup in JS where I can debug the same way (there is always something which does not work, between the IDE and Chrome and DevTools). This is really the ONE thing which is pushing me away from that otherwise nice language.
What I'm wondering is why humans can't drink the water from the most ubuquitous reservoir on earth.
That's fair enough although one of the reasons that works is that applications are sandboxed and limited in terms of what they are allowed to do. Certainly one could imagine a tablet/phone OS that was more oriented to desktop use cases (mouse support, etc.). But now we're back to Windows 8 and possibly Surface Pros and that just hasn't been a particularly popular model.
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Sorry, but I can't see the benefit of it.
Can anyone show a useful scenario... for the bank account owner?
Eh... extremely much larger exposure? Those playing the game of posting on Medium and Linkedin are gaining the game of reachability. That's the point of publishing out content.
It's better to view saving versus spending in economic rather than moralistic terms. Spending supports production of goods and services in the present, including the jobs necessary to produce those goods and services. Saving helps build the capital base that can be used to increase production of goods and services in the future. In a poor country with a growing population, it makes sense to save so you can increase production in the future. But in most of the west, you have the opposite problem. We have more capital than we know what to do with, and are looking forward to stagnant demand in the future due to a stable or even decreasing population. In that case, it makes sense to spend now.

Also, cooking at home doesn’t really make sense from an economic standpoint when you think about it.[1] Like everything else, cooking has economies of scale and specialization, so it’s cheaper to cook for many families at once. It only seems cheaper because we don’t account for the labor and opportunity cost of the (usually) women who stay home to cook the meals.

[1] Assuming you don't assign an intrinsic positive value to the time spent cooking or getting a home-cooked meal. That may be true for many people, but then you're talking about how people relatively value their free time versus time spent cooking, which is a different issue.
> eating out is a conscious choice even for very rich.

The rich in India have cooks that work for slave wages. The rich don't know how to drive because it is so cheap to have a chauffeur.

I knew an Indian kid in Berkeley, CA who didn't get into any American medical schools. So his parents gave a big "donation" to a medical school in India and got him in. They got him a flat, a maid and a cook. That's what he had at age 22.
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Poor study IMO. I stopped when I read the

> “Computer Science”, “Mathematics” and “Engineering”, obviously the leaders in research, with respectively 963274, 491191 and 352870 publications.

Why "obvious" ?? I barely think so.
What is that large exposure? How does the article reach more readers because it is on Medium?
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This OS was much superior from a latency POV but if I remember the article it had no security so..
That's amazing.

I guess probably the orientation didn't even matter. So likely, you could seamlessly wear something like that on a patch of skin that stayed out of your way (on your back, perhaps).
“The fieldwork was carried out from March 12 till March 14, 2014.” That was after the invasion. Russians tortured, kidnapped and killed civilians there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru... Locals have very good reasons to be afraid to express their political viewpoints. Especially to an unknown person who called their phone.
First you said 'not correct for years', now you're talking about stuff that's still in development and is not really the JVM anyone actually uses. I don't think you're making a good faith argument (or simply didn't click through Lattner's bit the first time around) - you just don't want to be wrong on the internet. That's fine but it's not an interesting conversation.
It would let you see the balance of all your accounts in one place, share data with your accountant or IFA, or apply for a mortgage without those tedious forms as well as photocopies of bank statements, offer proof of income easily, use apps that offer a marketplace for mortgages, savings or other financial services, use apps like xero, mint or Emma with any bank account easily, etc.

It’s an API for your bank, and like stripe being an API for payments, I think it’ll shake up the market a bit. It should make a lot of things easier than before, and force large banks to allow customers to control their data more via authorised apps. It’ll take a while to have any impact though.
I'd be hard pressed to believe that 40% of Indians are on par with the most destitute bits of Africa. Any source to validate this ?
"In West eating out is the default choice"

I find it baffling how one can put themselves in a position to speak on behalf of the entire West.
I am forced to host many of our services on Windows machines at work. I can attest there is nothing 'interesting' about it :)
I'll give another recommendation for http://www.fast.ai/

I went through the first phase of the course as an intro to AI/DL and thought it was really great from a high-level perspective. If you have a decent understanding of Python you'll have a working model running on AWS within the first few hours of the course which is very rewarding.

It does a better job than I expected explaining the underlying intuition of the math, but doesn't dive deep into the actual formulas. There are obviously tradeoffs to this approach and if you want to continue in the field you'll need to do something to fill in this background, but as far getting your hands dirty and understanding the basics I really liked the fast.ai approach.