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First, the relevant thread:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/1942

It's not terribly likely that we'll see an IcedCoffeeScript merge soon, given that the basic needs that a merge would entail haven't been addressed. A few of them:

* We don't want to add helper libraries, like "iced.Rendevous", "icedlib.Pipeliner", or "icedlib.timeout" to our generated JS.

* Last time I checked, there was a significant slowdown even when compiling code that doesn't use "iced" features.

* For particulars on the grammar, @devongovett raises a number of worthwhile issues in the thread.

* There's still muddiness in the way that errors and exceptions are passed through the CPS transform.

* Some (important) edge cases like nested await blocks aren't handled yet, as far as I know.

... and so on.
I'm not sure I can agree that small vs big is so black and white.

Why is the small board dotted with different values and the big board a vast wasteland with only a few potential outcomes? Is it VC pressure? That could definitely eliminate some options - however, if you intelligently take on capital and have the ability to hire better and brighter people - you should have more positive outcome possibilities.

I think the general idea is pretty sound, but definitely not so black and white. I believe most "big" startups were small startups initially.
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I think what he meant wasn't about sockets or Curl, but the fact that PHP is integrated with the HTTP request itself. You don't need an extension for PHP to output HTML or read in query parameters.

Python developers user REPL to quickly test elements of their code or play around with the language; PHP developers hit refresh.
I tried this many years ago, and it decreased conversion.

I'm not sure if this is still true, but apparently the surprise of a slightly unconventional form threw some people off, as it increased cart abandonment compared to a typical form.

If you're going to use this, please check to see if it actually provides a benefit to your users.
Thanks a lot. Yeah there are tons of new features on the way and I'm sure Countly will catch up with all the features of Google Analytics in a very short time. So far mongo and node has been great to work with and in terms of performance its quite impressive what you can achieve even with a small VPS.
I don't think you necessarily meant it as such but in this context it appears that you just referred to PHP developers as "grease monkeys" and other developers as "craftsman". One could misinterpret that as a highly offensive remark.
If it makes OP happy, I'll admit that PHP is a bad language. He certainly has the proof to back it up. But for me, I'm sufficiently used to those idiosyncrasies that I still use PHP for quickly tossing up a small site/app without the need to configure Ruby or Python web framework stacks. Maybe I'll switch eventually, but PHP still works for me and nothing else that I have tried quite replaces it in it's niche in my arsenal. (I also use Ruby on Rails and Node.js, haven't tried any Python web framework. I've used both Apache and Nginx.)
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That's true. I was hoping to stir thought in the reader rather than provide an answer.

If I had to wrap it up, I think it would be that we have to strive anyway even if it's "futile" in some sense of the word. Because of course it isn't. We do what we do, and that's enough. Perhaps there doesn't need to be a reason, a goal, or an end.
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There are two other interpretations of the statement. One is that you don't need any import/includes, which is true of PHP but not of Python. The second is you don't need any external dependencies "out of the box", ignoring the fact that someone had to make the box[1] for you at some point which you mention here. This is true of PHP, and only half-true of Python: I remember messing with "import cgi" at some point, Flask is so so much better.

[1] Gentoo's USE flags for PHP (the ones with - are the ones I haven't compiled in for my box):

apache2 bcmath berkdb bzip2 cgi cjk cli crypt ctype curl curlwrappers fileinfo filter ftp gd gdbm hash iconv ipv6 json mysql mysqli nls pdo phar posix postgres readline session simplexml sockets spell sqlite sqlite3 ssl threads tokenizer truetype unicode xml xmlreader xpm zip zlib -calendar -cdb -debug -doc -embed -enchant -exif -firebird -flatfile -fpm -frontbase -gmp -imap -inifile -intl -iodbc -kerberos -kolab -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit -mhash -mssql -mysqlnd -oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl -pic -qdbm -recode -sharedmem -snmp -soap -suhosin -sybase-ct -sysvipc -tidy -wddx -xmlrpc -xmlwriter -xsl
I like your city analogy. I won't stoop to comparing programming languages to actual American cities, but I would counter that "PHP is like living in [a particular] big city."

Here's where I disagree: it's not enough to say "hold your nose around these parts, but it's OK because those few blocks on Main St. are worth it."

There will be flaws in any city, and sometimes due to mismanagement, the flaws will be neglected until blight sets in. Here's where the citizens of the city need to step up: they either flee the city and it continues to decay, or they acknowledge the flaws and address them. Don't just accept the downsides! Fix things. Make improvements. The city only thrives on the investments of its citizens.
I'm guessing the reason for Texas is the proximity to their manufacturing facilities. I would like to see Spaceport America used for more as well, but to my knowledge, none of the tenants (or proposed tenants) are seriously discussing orbital launches anytime soon anyway.
If the NYT shut down can you give a few examples of some of the "implications"? Granted, the NYT is a prestigious, old publication, but you've given me no reason to believe there would be far-reaching implications "far-reaching implications for the US as a society, as a political body, and as a culture." Honestly, that sounds a bit farfetched to me. The New York Times is a newspaper. It has a print circulations of less than 2 million people. If Facebook were a country, it'd be the third largest country in the world. Hundreds of millions of people use it daily, the New York Times--even in America--doesn't have nearly that type of penetration.
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In this case, as in most cases where this accusation is thrown around, the lawyers are merely agents of the people actually doing the ruining. Also, trademarks are not bad things.
"CoffeeScript now prints a Generated by CoffeeScript VERSION header at the top of each compiled file."

From what I can tell there's no switch to optionally disable this? I can see how it could be useful to keep unaware developers from making js changes in compiled files, but other than that, what other purpose does this serve?
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The iPhone log is also globally accessible to any running app, so be careful what you're writing to it in production code.
I think you're misinterpreting my use of "grease monkeys" in general as offensive. (I said not to project value judgements in my original comment. There are certainly developers who see "craftsmen" as aloof purists who look down on practical matters. It cuts both ways.)
I agree on a number of these points, but:

> No immediate way to paginate image search.

Out of curiosity, why do you want it paginated? This isn't a criticism, I'm merely curious.

> Dropping links to cache: text_only: and similar: pages.

Cache and Similar still exist, granted they're more difficult to find now.

> Dropping scholar from the drop-down menu

While I don't really mind they dropped scholar (scholar<Tab> in chrome works well enough when I need it to), I do wish they'd let us customize the top bar.

> Closing down labs. (Much of the fun in the brand is gone with it).

Eh, I'll agree with Larry on this one. When it died, I wasn't affected at all. I honestly can't think of a single thing that I used on it and, from what I hear. it was largely a collection of projects that were hardly even being maintained any more.

> Almost blindly copying Bing regardless of whether the changes are perceived as useful or not.

Besides a similar looking image search, what else do you think they've copied?
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tl;dr: eBooks have the potential to be a superior product by virtue of being digital, but the current marketplace is shoveling crap that is inferior to the printed editions, at higher prices. Also, DRM.
Are you talking about the windows or OSX one? They're both so different.
Apparently one of my throwaways is secure nearly until the heat death of the universe.

2.1123066418521704e+73 years to crack
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Precludes seems to be precisely opposite the intended meaning of your second sentence. Perhaps you were looking for precede, presage, or produce?
The White House uses MongoDB (and will talk about it at OSCON).
They tend to be known outside of Canada as "square drive" screws. They can't cam out, are nearly impossible to strip in normal use, and will stay on the driver tip without assistance in almost any attitude other than straight down. They're the darling of woodworkers even in the United States of Phillips.

The American bias towards towards the Phillips screwdriver has mostly to do with the gift of patent made to the government in order to support the war effort, putting them effectively into the public domain. They were better than flat screws/drivers, but that's not saying much: when I worked in aircraft maintenance, about half of all of the Phillips-head captive fasteners (Camlock or Dzus type) on inspection and access panels needed to be replaced between periodic (400-hour) major inspections due to stripped heads.
For the lazy, if you enter "correcthorsebatterystaple" the password strength gets set to "lol" with an info-box that reads something along the lines of "Don't take the webcomic too seriously. :)"
Firefox, Safari, and Chrome all use Google's list. Opera might, I'm not sure.
No, this is a problem intrinsic to the whole dating site/app genre. I'd suggest reading up on it if you're in this field. The biggest problem any straight person dating site has to figure out is how to get women on the site and keep them happy.
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Yep, agree with that part....
This is a warning for future you:

Objective-C, when used like Objective-C and not just C-with-classes, is a lot like Ruby. Both have a shared heritage in Smalltalk.

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It's just laziness on the part of developers: it's trivial (on both platforms) to have your logging disabled or filtered on production builds.
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There are also a lot of web sites that store that same access token in plain text cookies...

Well done for discovering the hole and the way you handled it. Glad to see you wearing that white hat!
V = omega R, and R here is R_earth * cos(latitude), so the velocity ratio is cos(latitude1)/cos(latitude2).

Looks like there's an 8% velocity difference between those two spots.

LEO is about 7km/sec. The equator is at 0.465km/s. The proposed site is 90% the radial velocity of the equator, so 0.421km/sec. You get about 1% more velocity from launching on the Equator than from Texas.

Doesn't seem like Panama is that big of a deal over Florida or Texas.

At 46 degrees north, for Baikonur Cosmodrome, I get that it's a difference of 2%. The difference compared to the pole is 7%.

This velocity difference has an exponential effect on the amount of power needed to get to orbit. I am unable to do that math. Avshalom's memory of 9% seems reasonable.

Which means the 8 degrees has some advantage, but not as much as I had expected.
Fair enough; I'd say outside of apps Google has a credibility curve to climb however. The market doesn't perceive google as a content provider the same way it does apple or amazon, and both apple and amazon worked for many years to achieve the perception that they have today.

So - my counter point would be that Google will be a competitor in time.
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Which is not very relevant on these devices that get rebooted maybe once or twice a month.
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And that kind of stuff does happen, just look at people who win the lottery :) But even in that simple example those people still had to play.

Luck, or what appears to be luck, generally happens to people who are constantly prepared to accept an opportunity when it presents itself. In fact this leads to another popular saying that opportunity is everywhere. The problem is that it is often dressed in overalls and looks like work[1].

[1] Very liberal paraphrase of Edisons quote.
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It's too bad Firefox gets a lot of flack for it, though. I think it's because of 2 reasons:

1) Firefox users are used to a certain way of having their favorite browser work

2) Firefox still "promotes" version numbers, and this makes them a good target for jokes about moving so fast from version 11 to version 12, or whatever, while at this point Chrome users don't even care so much about the version anymore
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Log.d("Facebook-authorize", "Login Success! access_token=" + getAccessToken()

This is not wolf in sheep's clothing, it is wolf in wolf's furry clothing. Oauth access token is pretty much as powerful as a password, and it is being written to debug log here. Amazing how this code passed code review!
I'm seeing 16, but your point stands, that is right up among the most I've ever seen on a page. Facebook, Google, and Twitter can collect info on who reads that page, so score a bit more "favorable" rating on Apple from me.
Agreed, it's a bit cumbersome scrolling and copy-pasting. It is nice to be able to scroll your panes independently though.
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http://www.crypto-stick.org/ for example
Submitted 3 hrs ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3823537 but I'm wondering why HN is now refusing comments from me.
It will be interesting to see if, or how, this ruling affects similar cases tried in other circuit courts, since as the author points out this ruling is in contrast to the precedent set in cases ruled on by other circuits. I wonder if we'll see this one on the docket of the Supreme Court of the US in the coming years, due to the disagreement between circuits, especially since prosecutors also cite this law in criminal cases regarding Terms of Service violations.

I applaud Judge Kozinski's opinion.
The revenue potential of the NYT is well known and has been steadily declining, the potential for the Instagram is largely unknown but it is known that the internet space is rapidly expanding.

Instagram like the NYT is a business and as such is usually bought or sold with regard to it's potential to generate income, rather than it's social impact.

The liabilities for Instagram are 12 people's salary and a few servers, the liabilities involved in the NYT are simply astounding, reporters salaries, print shop salaries, marketing salaries, buildings, etc.

Instagram has people pay for the privilege of giving them content where as the NYT must pay others for their content, that difference alone is very important.
Some UI elements look exactly like in Path app, is this the same company?
Where is this Do Not Track button?
The most important thing it does is tell you which version of CoffeeScript was used to generate the file. Inevitably, as more and more coffee-generated-JavaScript begins to wind up in more places, we don't want to end up in a situation where you have to use trial and error, or distant memory, to figure out which version to use to rebuild the JS.
Exactly this. Just a few weeks ago, I noticed that this was the case for an application I'm maintaining at work.
I've always said somebody should fork php and polish it, getting rid of all the backward compatibility issues and leaving intact the ease of use and deployment. It is unbelievable to me how nobody sees the huge potential it has in books, blogs, docs, frameworks, etc. Like giving php a second chance, this time done right.

Rasmus himself should give it a try as a side project with a different name. I would follow him from day one.

PHP has a lot of bad parts and, like javascript, is asking for its cup of coffee. The time is ripe.
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It's probably a shame that the technology is abbreviated OAuth(orization) because people think OAuth(entication) and forget to handle the string with the reverence it needs.
;) Fair enough. At least we agree that it's a wolf!
FWIW, it looks like Google specifically rates correcthorsebatterystaple lower than similar passwords. I wonder if any of these websites have it in a dictionary?
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Who was it that said that if you have $1.5 to spend on food, you're better off (calorically) buying potato chips than broccoli.

High fat/high sugar foods offer the most calories/dollar. So what? If you are fat you have no reason to maximize the number of calories you consume.

Similarly, if you wanted to maximize your salt intake, you can get the most salt per dollar by buying a canister of salt.

It's much better than the popular notion of calories-in/calories-out, though.

Cals in/cals out has been validated in many controlled experiments to be a good first approximation. Taubes' insulin theories have been debunked by experiments.

Incidentally, the standard picture doesn't blame sedentarity as the sole cause of obesity. It blames the combination of sedentarity and increased caloric consumption as the cause.

But the cause, whatever it is, is highly unlikely to be some sort of metabolic disorder. Fat people have a higher metabolic rate than thin people, not a lower one. Their bodies release fat more easily into the bloodstream, contra Taubes and others. They just eat a lot more.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC303803/

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0954-6820.1969....

http://www.ajcn.org/content/8/5/740.full.pdf
Anyone know who Blue Systems are? Their website http://blue-systems.de/ says nothing.
Congratulations on a cool project!

There seem to be a lot of people here who are wondering why you bothered doing this instead of buying/renting/paying for some other solution. I'd suggest quietly acknowledging their points, and then going back to working on cool things.

Be an engineer. Be a problem-solver. Be a thinker. Don't worry about some magical valuation of your time and how learning to roll-your-own is just cowboy development--that's bullshit the suits will feed you to try and make you reliant on their capital. Do the hard things, and you'll go far.

(oh, and look into em-websockets...some cool stuff there if you don't want to mess with a full Rails deployment)
Oh my! I remember the Turbo button. Good times back then.
For reference, Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than. I am still amazed that the compiler and IDE are only 39 KB.

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What? This seems about as legitimate as the guy who built the flying suit. I would have thought there'd have been more skepticism from HN regarding a product like this that was built in a day.

At the very least, he puts the glasses on his face, but the camera is filming from above his head...
> How that even makes sense?

Maybe my point wasn't clear. It's not a difference in how those two ORMs accomplish their goal; it's that PHP doesn't let you do what SQLAlchemy does, even if you wanted to. Want to write an ORM that uses YAML, XML, or comment annotation in Python? Great! Want to write an ORM that uses classes or objects as column declaration in PHP? Too bad.

> Rehashing old tired "strpos doesn't have underscore and str_rot13 has, oh noes!!! I can't use language with missing underscore!!!" is really stale by now and doesn't contribute anything new.

Now I think you're just being petty. Obviously an underscore isn't what we're talking about here. Take your straw man elsewhere, please.
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The article gets carried away: @pigspotter is largly used to locate speed traps, the graft and violence are relatively uncommon. Bribes are usually paid by offenders to be let off the hook, and the average law abiding driver (unfortunately an increasingly rare breed) is unlikely to be hassled unduly at a roadblock.

Also Pigspotter doesn't Tweet past 10 PM or so, presumably not to aid to drunk drivers. If it was to avoid roadblocks because of the risk posed by rogue cops, he wouldn't suspend Tweeting at that time.
>Cache and Similar still exist, granted they're more difficult to find now.

Cache is now tightly integrated into Chrome and I think more heavily used then before (ie by a larger audience) because now if you pull up a website that's offline Chrome will point you to the cached copy
This may be a good thing however I can't help but get nervous when I hear the major cell phone companies will be working together on anything. I can easily see this becoming a tool to use against consumers while telling us its fir our own good.
Seems like Trigger's definateyy on a roll lately with all of this integration/ease of development and tutorials.

I haven't heard of Trestle Chain before. But I have experienced these problems with slow network on my mobile website. It's a pain, sometimes it takes a second or so to load a simple AJAX + render some HTML. Might dive deeper with Trestle and Trigger .

Anyone have any experience with Trestle/the performance?
I'll accept "does the job". I don't accept "quite well". I've seen PHP do a lot, but I've yet to see it do anything truly well.
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