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I disagree, several of these issues can come in up innocent programs written by less-seasoned practitioners. For example, [] not ==ing [] seems like it would be an incredibly common noob mistake. Some of the auto-conversion rules make certain classes of true bugs difficult to find. And I could see someone from a more 'traditional' OOP background getting bitten by "string" != new String("string") != String("string).

I will give you that many of these test cases are simply looking for trouble, especially the examples explicitly monkeying around with, especially anything involving direct manipulation of prototypes. I am also personally not bothered by most numeric wonkyness because that's floats in general, not JavaScript in particular (though I wish it had true Ints).
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“The creative adult is the child who has survived.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin
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I'm sorry, but this isn't correct. Firstly, you need to understand what Binomial is describing. It is not describing the time between outcomes. It is describing the number of times you will observe a positive result amongst n independent Bernoulli trials (Yes/No trials). By the "CDF approaches 1", what you are saying is that P(X <= n) = 1. But, we know that to be true by assumption -- we can't possibly observe more than n positive results from n trials. The continuous-time analogue would be the Poisson process -- this counts the number of valid blocks that have been generated up to a time t. The inter-arrival time -- the time between valid blocks -- is a random variable with an Exponential distribution. This is the distribution we are really looking at. And Exponential is memoryless (see Wikipedia for a proof).
Just to be pedantic, a peanut is not a nut--it's a legume, like beans, and has a similar nutritional profile. Most of the "healthy nuts" claims are made about tree nuts, like walnuts and almonds.
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Beautiful quote! :)
> "if I'm not convinced I'm getting the entire truth, we're going to keep doing this until I do, plane leaving or not"

That's pretty much how it is in the U.S. too.
StartApp hits 1.5B downloads, 10X growth in 18 months
I'd never heard of reduce, filter, and some others here, although I've written an emulator and a 3D game in JS. I guess sticking with a subset of JS you know to be safe is good. Using good libraries like jQuery too.
Oh man, this is just the best -- I can't wait to play around with this.
Every language has /some/ edge cases. Javascript is one big broken edge case.
Wow, is this being updated each year to account for any changes to json/xml schema by NFL.com?
I've always believed that there are no adults. That is the great secret of life that everyone should learn when they turn 18 or so. There are no adults. All those kids that you knew through your schooldays, are still around and still doing the same kind or vicious things that they did way back when. At least some of them are, the rest move on and realize that since there are no adults to look after things, it's time to roll up your sleeves and get to work, making the world better for kids of all ages from 9 to 99.
What about Oklahoma City? Does this put the US on that list?
The cynics will view Marrissa Meyer as a Google Trojan horse. I think its good to see some healthy competition in the internet portal space, especially as Google.com transitions from a search engine to a scraped content publisher serving advertisements.

Perhaps a lot of us also remember Yahoo as one of our first world wide web destination sites in the 1990s, so even if we don't care for the site today, we aren't cheering for its demise. They had bad leadership for a long time, their webmail saved their asses, and now there is a shot Yahoo could be around for another decade.
> Legislators simply responding to the most organized group is really no better than legislators responding to lobbyists.

I don't think that's true at all. Lobbyists require nothing but money. An organized group requires organization, yes, but it also requires a group who actually cares about the issue strongly enough to do something. I think that sounds a lot closer to the ideal of democracy than lobbying.
Good example? It is an interesting concept but while it resembles the physical object it does not fit in with the normal way of filling out a form on a webpage. And has anyone used this in production? I really like to see some stats on how this performs.
Yes, but what other common language besides PHP has so many ridiculous edge cases? None I use.
I can't really support that statement for the large amount of people who have weight problems. Just too many calories, and a lot from fat and protein which is easier to eat without realizing how much you are getting.
First, I don't agree that "the light" never comes back. It is, however, extremely rare. Usually, it involves a transformation similar to a deep religious experience that occurs over months (i.e. spending 6 months in an ashram). But many yuppies who do that sort of thing still learn nothing, so no guarantees.

Second, creative "light" vs. fear is a false dichotomy.

Game of Thrones quote time:

Bran: Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?
Ned Stark: That is the only time a man can be brave.

What kills creativity is giving in to fear (cowardice) and especially the daily compromises that don't feel cowardly but are. The problem is not the emotion (of fear) itself. We need fear. (If nothing else, I'd imagine that the OP agrees we need to fear mediocrity and creative atrophy.) What we don't need is to feed the senseless fear and status insecurity that modern society seems to encourage.
But are the most relevant results from places that have paid Google to be listed?
It is indeed mind boggling when people list async (read: callback hell) as a feature. Complex systems rapidly get unmanageable, so people build nasty hacks to try to paper over the async core (it is still async single threaded at its core, run a dumb busy loop and watch your app stop responding).

Blocking is a feature. Blocking lets you reason easily, and as Go, Erlang, etc... have proven can be done at breathtaking speed and use all your cores... rather than wrapping your world view around async, use a system that allows you to keep your logic blocking and uses microprocesses to distribute work across a pool of threads. It is freeing to be able to just kick up 300k microprocesses if you need them.

Additionally, the node ecosystem tends to be quantity over quality... many of the available modules are simply more trouble than they are worth... while NPM makes getting them easy, it doesn't make deciding if something is worth using any easier.
Fallacies are favorites of Internet forums because you don't need a bit of domain knowledge to attack any argument. They're sort of like grammar or spelling corrections.
> Don't want to answer a few questions about your trip? Fine, you're either a threat or you're just being a jerk. You don't get to fly.

Who would be left to fly once we got rid of all the jerks?

> It is in everyone's interest to have safe flights, and if you're being difficult just to be difficult then tough shit, that's what you get.

Why don't we work on making car travel safe first, since that would actually be a net-win on saving lives? Why are safe flights so much more important than the 50,000 people that die on the roads each year? More people die from driving in one week than from one plane crash.
Don't be sorry, I love learning and correcting my mistakes! But I'm going to fight :P

Of course it does not describe time. It describes attempts (which grow with time because you're doing N attempts per second, i.e. the network hashrate). My point still stands.

I see your point, but I think we're unknowingly discussing a semantic issue: the expected time is not the time when you're expected to find a block, it is the time where the probability of at least one block being found is high (including the previous attempts). It's only gambler's fallacy if you're discarding the previous attempts and only measuring the probability of hitting a block in a single attempt, which of course is constant throughout all attempts.

> The inter-arrival time -- the time between valid blocks -- is a random variable with an Exponential distribution.

Sure, but if you pick 10 minutes, you'll be right more often than not (not counting hashrate changes, of course) because it averages 10 minutes...

One block is found in 1 minute and the next in 19? No problem. That's why it says "expected" and not "sure".

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How many times do you have to flip a coin to have a 99% confidence of flipping tails at least once? Seven. You might need less than seven (the first attempt is already 50%) or more than seven (because 99% != 100% and we never reach 100%) but 99 out of 100 times you flip 7 coins you'll hit tails at least once.

I think that's what the "expected" means. You expect to flip tails within 7 flips (because I've arbitrarily set the bar at 99%) so we might be arguing what "expected" means.
Same here. JS has some seriously bizarre gotchas.
It's JSON. I've been an active maintainer since I released it two years ago. Proof is in the issue tracker and the wiki. :-)

(But there haven't been much---if any---changes to the JSON feed's structure. At most, they add some statistical categories.)
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Yeah, I used to hang out at the NYC LW meetup a lot, it was a lot of fun.

I agree that the second message is better in pretty much every way, but I'm not sure they're mutually exclusive in that I think they fall on different parts of the "what we say publicly <--> what we believe" spectrum. Though I'd agree that they seem to have moderated a bit.
Yeah, but how many people actually do that? I bet it is a fraction of a percentage of the population.
So then one doesn't have to live there, if there's truly no source of water whatsoever. There is no divine mandate that people have to live there, and given the constant urbanization of the world, it's not clear people even want to live in rural areas.
Come on IRC/FreeNode on #nflgame if you have any questions or need help.
It isn't, at all. It's not some popularity contest. The best companies do in fact tend to have YC partners invested in them. It's just because they are..the best companies.

The only reason it's bad is because there are lots of great startups in the batch that can be hurt by it, which is obviously not what the partners intend.
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It's not a language it's a set of non-binding promises that certain words and characters in certain combinations may produce some sort of effect.
>> "I've never used a municipal internet service that was any good."

Naperville, Illinois, while being a loathsome, sprawling mess in many respects, has pretty snappy municipal internet. And, in fairness, a semi-charming waterfront path.
Actually the mining aspect of the Bitcoin protocol is ahead of schedule almost consistently and because of that the mean time is about 7 min
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"you should not expect to be able to collaborate with someone using Word to edit your paper"

This, this is death to every alternative I look at.
Indeed, the pure point-differential EV isn't enough. And beyond variance, there are mental factors involved: cascading micro-rewards from scoring, thinkability of a win or loss, social dominance.

I believe the NYTimes "4th Down Bot" actually performs a likelihood-of-winning analysis, as well.
Presumably there are specific domain names which do not respond to DMCA requests, while the search engines do. The others would respond to DMCA requests and thus results for them would be useless/dead. A project could aim to index these DMCA proof domains specifically?

I don't have a problem with the DMCA but I believe using it to censor a list of links is abuse and breaks the US's first amendment.
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There can be a lot of creativity and beauty in banking and law. It's just very specialized that a poet might not see it. The same is true for mathematics. A poet might not think that mathematical formulas are beautiful and even be ignorantly unable to find beauty in formulas and then feel superior when he goes out and finds so much beauty in the sky.

There are plenty of dull poets out there too that are uninspired and passionless.
Yes. And local bank debit cards usually combined on the VISA card, in Norway there is BankAxept, Dankort in Denmark and something else Germany can't remember. The fees for these transactions are next to nothing compared to Visa/MC here in Norway. But very rarely accepted online (unfortunately).
I think Yahoo will buy Bing within 3 months after MSFT brings in the new CEO. MSFT will be more focused on the enterprise market and Yahoo will use Bing to fight google.
Another option for some of these types of queries is an app I made called Yards Gained:

http://www.yardsgained.com/

The data is from play-by-play text parsing going back to 2000.
Once you learn to recognize them, a surprising number of fights are, at root, about competing definitions of terms.
Jeez, the ego on this one..
Weird. I did the "hotels in San Francisco" search, and I got that semi-annoying little ribbon at the top of the page listing a bunch of hotels in San Francisco.

I decided to play with it a bit, and selected the filter "4 stars or better", and it came up with an empty set.

I thought well, that's weird. Surely there are 4 star hotels in San Francisco!

So I kept trying to figure out what had gone wrong. It turns out the little ribbon is actually showing you results from the map that's down and to the right.

That's kind of cool, but there's no UI cues indicating that connection at all. Strange to see something so clumsy on a Google search page.
> So far. In relative terms.

What other terms could there be?

> In general, you made a one-sided statement that also ignored the fact that your assumptions could change. I pointed that out, along with possible alternatives. Then, you reply that I am being one-sided? You're talking in circles.

My point is that we have lots of information on what is valuable out there and what is not, and the people wringing hands over it seem to be trying to put all the burden of proof on everyone else, and speculating vaguely about how one might one day want that deep acquifer (without any consideration of future technological advances and economic and demographic shifts away from the areas, opportunity costs like foregone economic growth) etc. That's very one-sided.

> The Mexicans are now having to dig deeper than they thought would be necessary or viable. At some point, they were saying "what would ever justify...".

Greater Mexico City has been growing for how many centuries now? If they were saying that, they weren't doing a very good job of forecasting. There's a big difference between wondering whether one of the largest urbanizations in the world will one day want to tap in local water, and wondering whether some random plains acquifer located nowhere important will one day be worth the expense of tapping into and whether this can justify expensive restrictions now.
Uh, what? Unsaturated fats are generally regarded as healthier than saturated fats. Which specific unsaturated fats do you think have "many negative health associations"?
I use Bootstrap without jQuery all the time, so that is not true. I also make custom builds for just the stuff I need to keep file size down. Anyways, I just looked at Min and was a bit disappointed. The demo page has the look and feel of a framework that might have existed 10 years ago -- it doesn't look polished at all and I would never even attempt to try it out based on that demo. The 2 sites built with the framework also look about 10 years old. I realize it is a lightweight framework, but so is Pure and Topcoat, and their examples look a lot better. Sure they may be a bit bigger than 995 bytes, but with high speed internet and LTE, that is less important than it was in the past. I'd rather have a larger CSS file and a better looking site.
How does looking at who previously invested as a signal invalidate the idea of a meritocracy?

I agree with the other commenter. You spent way too much time spying on Matt Maroon today.
Yeap but the most probable way to learn about them is to lose several hours debugging each of them.

I don't think there is other language that comes close to javascript. Ok it's everywhere now, you make a lot of money with it, that's what we have now, but you and others defending it make my ears bleed.
>Take a look at the first 60 seconds of this video [1], I don't believe it's possible to watch this video without knowing that it's a sponsorship deal he has. //

I'd certainly suspect it - but it's presented as "oh look, I'm your fried, I just found this deal online". Certainly those less jaded by life, than I, I think wouldn't realise.

You of course would know because you know that companies are doing this sort of marketing - I suspect many people don't realise such endorsements are paid. Those more savvy would assume that the link below the vid is an affiliate link but probably not that the presenter was paid for the actual placement.
The introduction of the M7 last year seemed to be a step in this direction. It's also the only major use I can see for wearables such as watches. If there are planning to release a watch health monitoring would be the main selling point for me. I don't need a device on my wrist letting me know I have a new text message/email/notification. This would be a much better use of that technology.
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This had me crying I was laughing so hard. In an airport bar. People were staring.
> For transfers maybe, but are your really trusting an ancient box of parts long out of warranty with your long term storage?

This is the one that always gets me. Failure becomes more likely over time. You just dumped your faith in a more failure prone box.
It's not really spam if your job is to represent the people contacting you with their concerns.
Perl would likely be the next closest, but even it's nowhere near as bad as PHP and JavaScript are.
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Why should passwords be encrypted if they are being stored in a secure database?
If you want a readable langauge spec check out http://golang.org/ref/spec
I think BlackDeath's point is just...

Who wouldn't just use "int" for all of this logic? It's so simple that you could do it on autopilot. You'd have to specifically try to limit to 8-bits.
EL AL spends $56.75, not Israel. The in-airport security when not flying EL AL has nothing to do with EL AL so these numbers don't seem that relevant.
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Agreed. Plenty of lawyers work with their hearts and eschew money. Plenty of research mathematicians are more interested in padding their publication record than in mathematics itself.
Agreed. I already made arrangements to have my things shipped to Alaska where i will live out the rest of my days .. this "programming" thing didn't pan out.
Fascinating. And it makes sense. Sometimes long-time purchasing habits are hard to break, and forcing a change hurts results.
Also their pricing.. The company I work for has no problem paying but my side projects where I'd like the same level of visiblity.. I just can't justify the cost

Thanks for the link on Scalyr, will definitely check it out. Btw, it wouldnt hurt to throw up some pictures on your site :)
SBNation is one of the sites that spends lots of time making their site look really cool, but it definitely makes their websites kind of large.
Flickr + Backups (local and online)
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If 'char' in-place of 'int' is a legacy quirk, then I get it. I just find it odd that over the course of twenty-five years the required expense couldn't be made to update the data type. It just makes more sense.
"Absolutely no brand-cuffs"
> [Adjuncts] were much more down to earth, current on the subject area, and practical with their advice then tenured professors.

That's not surprising at all. Adjuncts tend to be younger ( = more recently educated) and more importantly, perpetually in the job market. The last factor kinda forces you to be down to earth and practical. They are better leads for internship referrals because they've probably been interns themselves at some point in the last 10 years, whereas the tenured professor has worked exclusively for the university for the last 10 to 40 years.

> Tenured professors were often out of touch with the current state of the practice, and more focused on the theory.

On the one hand, this gives credence to the argument that tenure makes these people lazy. On the other hand, this is exactly what tenure is for in the first place. Tenure gives people freedom to delve deep into a specific area of abstract theory without having to worry about how much $$$ their research will be worth in the next 5, 10, 25 years. Tenured professors might be years behind the game in a field in general, but they can also be decades ahead in the tiny theoretical niche that is their specialty. We as a society subsidize their interests because we want better theory in the long term.

Of course there are also adjuncts with a good theoretical background, as well as tenured professors with an excellent grasp of the latest trends and job prospects. But overall, I think the division of labor makes sense. The problem is that one of these groups are too easily abused, but that's a problem with any social division of labor in any field.
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I don't think that anyone really considers it "esoteric". There's not really any secret to it. Once one accepts that it's just a very poorly designed language, it makes perfect sense why it's so heavily broken in so many critical ways.
I use Flickr
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I kinda like the French revolution analogy as well. French revolution wasn't exactly a picnic for anyone involved either. (And it also ended up in a military dictatorship and a state of total war in Europe...I hope that that's not where we're heading, but there are a lot of historical parallels that lead that way.)
Initially I looked at the site from the Iphone so I didn´t see the details. In fact is as you say, just waypoints set in a square way. The rounded corners is just the normal turning radio of the B747.
You are assuming their search has to be very good. Would it make a difference if the search was merely good enough. Search engines will generally get the most popular stuff well enough (eg "Justin Bieber") and it is the longer tail where they distinguish themselves. But does Yahoo need to distinguish themselves there?
Interesting rules. I can feel they are right. But if all the UIs are not surprising, people will be pretty bored and hard to remember to come back. This is a dilemma for my website UI design.
It's particularly bad in politics. Politicians tie themselves to a particular solution and seem to persist with it even when it's clear that it will never work well.
Fun fact, this is also the reason why 'i' is commonly used as a name for the loop counter variable.
Partners can't invest.
500startups mentors != YC partners - the closest to that is basically 500startups investing a follow-on, it has the same signal as YC partners investing in YC companies during the accelerator program.

P.S: I'm the co-founder of a company who was in Batch 6 of 500startups.
Well even if something is "broken" you have to use it once in a while, how can you avoid function scope and typeof?

Also sometimes you have to maintain code, so it's not a choice.

There are always explanations that are helpful. You have to know about the pitfalls to be able to avoid them.

The questions just make you study the examples and also it's more fun this way.