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So basically: more features to JS, but JS still.

I guess that if we want to have something after JS, that will come either with:
* more standardized languages, with native in-browser VMs, as Google is trying to do with Dart.
* get rid of the browser.

The latter is way more contraversive, but I like it nonetheless.
The less contraversive version is: the end of the browser as we know it.
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It helps if you're already one of the biggest players. A smaller company may be able to make a more attractive offering with REST.
The thing is, students don't need to be able to ask those questions to learn the concepts. It can be done as an interactive exercise and in the process, a student will actually see what objects are used for and gain intuitive understanding. You do not need to go into all the cumbersome detail about how they are defined in the language. Critically, you do not need to introduce concepts that require them to decide whether they should define their own classes or use built-in data types.

Here is an example that instantiates an object, introspects, gets an attribute, introspects again, and invokes a method. It's 11 commands.

>>> import requests
>>> def introspect(obj):
... for x in dir(obj):
... print x
...
>>> request_object = requests.get('https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6919275')
>>> introspect(request_object)
__bool__
__class__
__delattr__
__dict__
[...]
request
status_code
text
url
>>> request_object.status_code
200
>>> request_object.url
u'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6919275'
>>> introspect(request_object.url)
__add__
__class__
__contains__
__delattr__
[...]
title
translate
upper
zfill
>>> request_object.url.upper
<built-in method upper of unicode object at 0x29a3330>
>>> request_object.url.upper()
u'HTTPS://NEWS.YCOMBINATOR.COM/ITEM?ID=6919275'

After enough practice using objects from various python libraries, in the course of doing functional or imperative programming, they will have an intuitive understanding of objects and what they are for.

Some interested students might ask "What's an object, under the hood?" and "how can I create my own classes?" That's when you can introduce them to classes (http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/classes.html). If they're fine with the intuitive understanding that comes with performing examples like the one above, leave them be. Don't inflict OOP principles they don't need to know yet.
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Rails fairs badly across the board. I'm afraid you're the one who's "lazily" linking in this case. Of course you can have good latency if you instantly 500, and process far fewer requests than the competition.
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1. You can easily write the same crappy code with promises anyway. And if you do think that `Promise.all` will save you, then you can use it with yield. With destructuring you even don’t need `.spread`.

Even more, with yield you can easily achieve parallel execution just moving `yield` keyword to the place where you need actual value. Good luck doing this with promises.

2. Unfortunately, traceur-compiler does not support fat arrow yet;

3. If you use try-catch just as a silencer, man I have bad news for you. And if you provide real error-handling in `.fail()` then what’s the problem writing the same code inside catch clause?
Not news, and also not news, it's easily disabled. Besides, all this shows is that the phone knows, and there are actual uses for it that make me leave it on, like predicting how long it will take to get home or common places I go. As for it's use in advertising, that can be reset as well as opposed to disabled, so I reset that periodically.

Also, this isn't unique to iPhone, [1] and hasn't been since it was discovered on Android as well.

1. http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/04/21/its-not-just-the-iph...
The way I see it you've already proven yourself to some degree before you even apply. 99% of your experience has been acquired, 99% of your projects have been done, 99% of your skills are already in-hand. If that doesn't get the possible employers' attention already, then a few last minute stunts aren't likely to do it either.

IMO 100 hours is an excessive amount of time to spend on a single job application, even if you really want it. In 100 hours you can do a hell of a lot - I would kill to have an extra 100 hours available over the next couple of weeks (say).
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Is that the infamous issue that requires you to reorder font type imports in your CSS? I've seen this many times on Win7 in Chrome.
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Hello people, for those who bash TED, what have YOU produced for the betterment of human understanding of ourselves and the world around us? At least TED inspires people to think about things in new ways no matter how popularist it has become. Maybe instead of bashing TED, talk about how you would make it better if you were to run it AND MAKE IT HAPPEN!
That's exactly the point, of course. He changed his view by experiencing criminal justice in the city.
Did you ever look at Clojure? If not, why not? If so, what didn't you like?

While Clojure surely has a bigger learning curve than Go, it's much simpler and more approachable than Scala. I've learned it recently and am an absolute convert. It seems perfect for your use case and you could even skip writing the prototype in Rails because you'll be just as productive in Clojure.

Note that I'm not trying to convince you to change; you obviously found something that works for you. But I am curious if there were obstacles to using Clojure (missing libraries? poor tutorials?) and if so, how that could be fixed.
Something odd about that commit message... You know that O(m) is equivalent to 5 * O(m) right? Any constant multiplier will have the same big-O value.
I think outside of the Big Northeast cities, train travel in the U.S. is problematic because of the distance to stations and the lack of facilities at those stations to handle long-term parking. Other transit options aren't much help as well. Buses don't cut it for most of the U.S. outside of urban and semi-urban centers for similar reasons (transit to/from the stations). Taxis "work" to fill this in, but are very expensive.

To give an idea in my area, I live about 35 miles from D.C. in a pretty normal suburb (no boondocks). I have a commuter bus I can take at 5:30am that's not far from my house (about 3 miles and semi-walkable but there's no way I can take luggage). On the return trip, if I don't make it back to the commuter stop by 4:30pm I have to spend the night in the city or take a taxi (very expensive).

Driving takes about 2-3 hours in traffic, and there's no long-term parking at reasonable rates (parking is available near the station at about $27 a day).

A taxi would work, but it's the same distance as driving and probably north of $100-150 for the trip each way.

There are two Amtrak stations a bit closer than the city, but not much and the transit options are either drive and have no place to park at all or taxi.

Even if I moved in closer to the city, unless I'm within walking distance to one of the D.C. metro I'm still largely in the same boat with slightly less time and money penalties.

So even if I wanted to take the train on a trip that had comperable time to air travel (say to New York on the Accella), the time and cost involved make it far less convenient.

I have taken intercity bus services before because the cost is remarkably cheaper. D.C. to NYC for <$50 in about 4.5 hours. But still with the same issues as the train.
> These routes were just inaugurated, and the stock is fresh out of the factory.

Well Thalys trains were made in 1995-6 and it shows. They actually have comparable leg room as airplanes (at least with legacy carriers)
You can have mixins with rework-macro[1] so it would be very easy to integrate it with myth if needed (myth is based on rework).

[1]: https://github.com/andreypopp/rework-macro
> I'm beginning to think the business is marketing, not technology.

Correct.
You claim various strands of Christianity disagree on what is allowed and what is not. Not exactly news, but you have no argument from me here - they do. Neither of them, though, endorses fortune telling or divination - and I explained elsewhere in this thread why prayer is nothing like divination, and never is equated to such by any official religious authority either.

>>> therefore they label it as what it really is, a form of divination.

Could you quote any reputable source that expresses it like that, that calling to Virgin Mary is not just wrong or prohibited for a protestant, but is actually a form of divination?

You argument seems to suggest that if some Christian faiths disagree on some specific account, then there can be no agreement between them on any account. This is of course false.

>>> Furthermore, your definition of divination is steeped in Christian bias

That's a funny accusation, given that I am not a Christian and never felt a desire to be one. I gave specific criteria on the difference. You did not show any flaw in my argument, you just labeled it "magical woo" and dismissed it.

>>> They are still both blatant magical thinking.

I'm not sure what you mean by "magical thinking" - does saying "magical woo" and expecting this to win an argument qualify? Divination and prayer are completely different practices, and while different religions could endorse both, dominant religions in relevant demographics endorse one and do not endorse the other. If you want to change your argument by conceding prayer is not divination and instead claiming prayer is "magical thinking" - be my guest, but then I'd recommend to actually learn what prayer means for people that actually pray and for religions that practice it. I'm pretty sure magic plays very little role there.
Here (Copenhagen) trains have a pretty big share of the market up to about 5 hours. Copenhagen–Hamburg (4.5 hr), Copenhagen–Stockholm (5 hr), and Copenhagen–Aalborg (5 hr) are all popular routes.
It has nothing to do with games or wasting resources, it has to do with dissent. Authorities doesn't like when you challenge their righteousness.

In dictatorships you're arrested by the secret police, accused of immoral acts, tortured, made to confess and made an example of anyway.

In the US you're arrested by the intelligence unit, accused of "related" charges, thrown in custody for 34 hours, made to accept a plea bargain and made an example of anyway.

Disfavor, smear, pressure, self-incriminate and then abuse. Same pattern.
I hope I'm not remiss in perceiving strong dry humor throughout the first half of the story. My favorite part is where he looks at the cop in the car and keeps right on spraying:

As I moved the can back and forth, a police officer in an Interceptor go-cart saw me, slammed on his brakes, and pulled up to the curb behind me. I looked over my shoulder, made eye contact with him, and resumed. As I waited for him to jump out, grab me, or Tase me, he sped away and hung a left, leaving me standing there alone.

And in the next paragraph...

I woke up the next morning and Fox News was reporting that unknown suspects had vandalized City Hall. I went back to the entrance and handed the guard my driver’s license and a letter explaining what I’d done.

Fox News, unknown suspects... Maybe it's just me, but this had me laughing out loud.
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I noticed that there is no delta compression until objects get incorporated into a pack.

>Think of each branch as a pointer. Then realize that you can make that pointer point anywhere on the DAG, even to parts of the DAG that have no connection to each other. The `reflog` is a (local, non-comprehensive) history of where that pointer has pointed.

I got that branches were pointers. Now that I'm aware that the DAG is fully represented inside objects, I can see that what's inside logs/ is actually just logs. Each log corresponds to a subgraph of the full DAG. Getting history from a log would be more efficient than from the objects themselves, because to get it from objects, you'd have to dereference a lot of object references.

>I'm not sure what branches living under .git/refs has to do with excessive hierarchies/trees. There are enough things stored in the .git directory, that if you mashed them all together it wouldn't make any sense.

Having to descend through layers of subdirectories makes things harder. I'd reduce the depth of the directory tree to the absolute minimum. It's hard to tell if this is the minimum without knowing exactly what all the implementation constraints might have been.

I can see that the real meat of this system is the object store. It's useful to know about `git cat-file` for inspecting it.
Ridesharing is a tough business, primarily due to supply side scarcity. Long distance carpools are even tougher. It takes a team with incredible dedication to accomplish what RideJoy has been able to. I noticed that they are STILL a featured app under travel on the app store.

RideJoy and Kalvin in particular were very helpful to us at InstantCab at various stages from advice and introductions on fundraising to hiring. I am looking forward to following what each of them does next.
>> In a city, I'd bet it's statistically likely that a tagger has a gang affiliation.

There are laws on the books for tagging and laws on the books for gang affiliation. Specifically, laws indicate what can and can not be legally done by an individual or group. They specifically do not talk about the statistical likelihood that since an individual is alleged to have done X they likely also did Y and so we can prosecute for Y.

One of the neat things about the law is that we are not supposed to apply laws based on the facts and not our superstitions of the types of associations we attribute to a person who looks a certain way or who lives in a certain place.

Similarly, police don't get to do whatever they want to protect an arbitrary group of citizens from another arbitrary group of citizens.

Legislatures don't get to decide that certain citizens have more rights, or more claim on the justice system, than other citizens, for any reason at all.

One of the great things about America is that over time, we get closer to achieving a usable reference implementation of a usable system of justice.
Inventing their own build tools instead of using a Grunt plugin seems like a severe case of NIH for ember. I'd be curious to hear their rationale beyond "the currently-available options all have fatal flaws that make them unpleasant to use as your app gets larger."
"Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're there" ... only after asking if you want to enable location services when you get a new phone. That's not exactly "on by default".
They steer clear of walking down the street while black? Maybe it works different in Wilmington than in Brooklyn or the Bronx, but being teenaged and black is plenty to get hassled by police in NYC.

Just one minor detail you hear from people, young black boys/men have it drilled into them by their parents never to go walking around without ID on them, because it will make things more difficult for them if the police stop them. People's lives are full of details like that. Is that the kind of thing you're advocating other people go through so you feel safer?
Would love to work less at our startup, but the past year has been a non-stop 60-70 hour week marathon. I just don't know how you can work less when you are worried that your company will die from not having tried hard enough.
> I'm not saying that's the only reason.

I will. If it didn't have a negative effect on large American businesses, no one would be giving any real thought to the matter. Even then, I expect only a show of reform will be given so that those large American businesses can continue on. I do not expect to see any real change.
This looks pretty cool. It should probably explain that it's a static subset of the spec, and not actually a polyfill for the spec itself. Since the spec allows for dynamic, cascading variables, as well as dynamic calculations.
I looked at the study and everyone involved smoked and drank to some extent, and the meditation had some improvement on depression/anxiety/worry all of which are usually blamed for cig / booze use. At least some subjects were likely self medicating themselves and its highly likely the semi-dramatic change in reported attitude would lead to semi-dramatic change in self medication. However booze/cigs use after the experiment was not charted which is highly unfortunate.

It seems highly likely meditation reduces self-medication due to improved mental state, and reduced self medication as per this article study has some direct effect on telomerase. So indirectly it sounds like a believable testable falsifiable hypothesis but its hardly been proven.
No. They give prizes, maybe fund researchers, but they don't assign people to do fundamental research. Unless you call the youtube-cats and driver-less cars fundamental.
> Why not charge a little bit more during off peak times, and then turn around and incentivize drivers using the subsidy from off-peak hours, rather than dumping it all on individuals traveling during points of tumult/crisis?

Because someone else would start up with a pricing model of charging less during off-peak hours, providing no service whatsoever during weather situations, and the pricing model would fail.

It can be done at the government level - tax cab rides, then use the proceeds to subsidize those at other times, but it can't reasonably be done by one company unilaterally. The medallion system sort of does this, by fixing both price and supply. It's probably suboptimal, though.
> Child labor and police bribery are also "market forces at work".

You should be ashamed of yourself for comparing demand pricing for private transport to child labor and police bribery.

> Over the course of history we've learned that unfettered market forces can be destructive, and in order to maintain a civil society we regulate them.

Cheap, reliable, private transportation is not a right. Civil society is entitled to efficient, fairly priced mass transportation, not price controls for private transport.

> It may not be perfect, but clearly neither is the alternative if that alternative is the kind of opportunism advocated by Uber.

So don't user Uber then. Use a regular taxi (while they're still around). Walk. Own a bicycle or a membership to a bike share program. Or take mass transit.

End the entitlement complex.
The apologist is strong in you.

> If they bend the rules, they are severely punished.

No they aren't, they get paid vacation days until another cop lies and says they're innocent under a so called investigation. They should be fired when found to break the law; they should be investigated by outside agencies rather than internal investigations. You can't enforce the law justly if you can't even follow the law.

> If they don't bend the rules, and the rules don't always apply the way liberal suburban white folks might imagine they do on the street, then they get castigated for not "doing their job" i.e. catching the bad guys. At the end of the day, not catching the bad guys is the biggest sin in law enforcement, because it's the mission.

The mission is enforcing the law, not catching the bad guys. More importantly it's not up to police to determine who the bad guys are nor should it be. The rules do always apply and there's no justification whatsoever for breaking them. Better criminals go free than innocent people be harassed by police who think they're on an episode of 24.

> If you fail the mission, you're facing demotion, punishment, deprivation of public support and sufficient budget, and the public will view you with contempt and disgust.

False conclusion from a faulty idea of what the mission should be.

And I have walked a mile in their shoes because I'm an ex-cop. Just my more informed 2 cents.
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>>> Whether these crimes deserve any police attention is something that could be discussed, but surely we can agree that prosecuting black kids but not white kids is something that drives inequality in society?

Except when you take into account blacks commit far more crime than whites:

"According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, in the year 2008 black youths, who make up 16% of the youth population, accounted for 52% of juvenile violent crime arrests, including 58.5% of youth arrests for homicide and 67% for robbery."

Also keep in mind, these are usually not black on white crimes, but usually black on black crimes. It would foolish to think we should simply start prosecuting more white people simply because there is some form of perceived inequality in the justice system.

Perhaps instead of focusing on the fact more blacks end up in the system (when its already too late), maybe we should take a harder look at WHY they end up in the system and work on preventing them from ever getting there in the first place.
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If you're leaving at (say) 8pm on Friday evening, an overnight train arriving Saturday morning is much more convenient than a plane landing at midnight; likewise for getting back in time for work on Monday morning. What's the use case where it doesn't fit?
Well, this article states that caffeine shortens telomeres, and shortened telomeres are a hallmark of aging. Lengthened telomeres are associated with cancers. This seems to imply that the research done in this article (on yeast) correlates with the research you linked.
You can send files up to 10GB (that's a 600-page presentation, or a 10-minute power ballad)

A 600 page presentation or 10 minutes of audio should be closer to 10MB than 10GB. Even 10 minutes of HD Video should be no more than 100MB.
Myth uses autoprefixer[1] so you can use it directly if you don't need other features. It "just works".

[1]: https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer
Exactly. I'm sure the reason he wasn't being arrested in the beginning is not solely because of race but also due to his _attire_ and _calm behavior_. Cops are used to street criminals looking shady, behaving strangely; not just being black and hispanic (for the most part). So yes, if a black journalist in a suite quietly painted graffiti on a street — would he be treated _much_ differently than this guy did?
Serious question: why does Treehouse need 45 employees? What's the division of labor? Are most of them required for content creation, or engineering, or what?

I've been thinking a lot about company size lately, and was always impressed that not long before acquisition time Instagram had a team of just six (which quickly expanded to twelve prior to acquisition).

Is such a small team size really only achievable by user generated content companies?
A promise to publish is worth nothing. An enforceable obligation to publish might be worth something.

When copyright is transferred, the promise effectively becomes an enforceable obligation. Artists are (occasionally) able to wriggle out of contracts on the basis of the failure to publish within a particular timeframe, because popularity is arguably a function of the timely availability of new material.
The point was that putting someone on probation is expensive. If the judge was upset about tax money being wasted, and their response to that was to waste more tax money, then the judge

>wasted our tax dollars to prove a point
I'd also like to see Nimrod in the results.
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