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"Physical activity, he said, pools blood in the lower half of the body, reducing blood flow to the heart. In response, the heart pumps more vigorously. In people with NCS, the brain misreads that as high blood pressure and tries to lower the pressure, which leads to decreased blood flow to the brain and, thus, fainting."

I like how it sounds like an engineering flaw. Hopefully one day our software will not be bound to randomly generated aging hardware.

M8on The Brain Age

It's a scripted hypertext document trying to pretend it's an application.

M8on Play with MongoDB from your browser in real time

How do I define a constraint to ensure referential integrity?

M8on If Nobody Knows About Your Product, You Are Dead by Default

At least you don't need to be profitable.

M8on Why most popular GitHub repos are all web related?

Web is independent, thus making tools for it is both no one's and everyone's concern.

Mobile/desktop platform providers on the other hand are typically worried about developer experience and thus e.g. you get XAML/QT instead of patching HTML with Bootstrap.

M8on Anti-Feminist Frequency pamphlets appear on poles around E3 convention

They think they are trolls, but all they are doing is feeding another troll.

M8on Ask HN: Career trajectory? I'm terrible

Do you honestly enjoy programming though? Or is it just a job?

M8on Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly

Unity3d provides C# to JavaScript compiler

Unity3d does too many things (except new versions of C# :P) and ties to itself. There should be a direct C# -> WebAssembly compiler in future.

M8on Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...

M8on How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer

WebAssembly will make both irrelevant in a few years.

M8on Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly

Dart and TypeScript will be as irrelevant as JS. Why Dart if you can have Go/Scala/F#/Haskell/Ruby/etc. compiled to WebAssembly?

M8on Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly

That would be a dream.

M8on Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly

Hopefully we will not need Unity3d to have high-performance C# engines in browser.

M8on Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly

If you cannot prevent something, you might as well be a part of it. Unofficially.

M8on From Asm.js to WebAssembly

If I could just use my favourite language and not feel like a second class citizen, then I am not sure there would be anything else to complain about as a developer, really. A mark-up bytecode so that we could forget about the nightmare of HTML and CSS as well?

M8on The Final ES2015 (ES6) Draft

Expect the Final Final pre-Release post-Draft. ES6 will never get released.

M8on Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day to keep fit?

TL;DR: 8000+ is good enough.

M8on How We Moved from Ruby to Go and Saved Our Sanity

C# and Go are both good choices. Hopefully Microsoft will deliver a decent Linux dev experience via VS Code / Monaco to make C# more appealing though. In 2015 people really deserve a language with generics in it. But, yeah just stay away from dynamic languages beyond prototypes. At least don't pick something that is both dynamic AND weakly typed.

M8on Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK

The salary ceiling is very low in UK.

M8on The average American woman now weighs 166 pounds – as much as a 1960s man

"...I think the ability to decide when/if you get pregnant and have kids is fantastic..."

Typical scenario: she lies to him she is (still) on the pill, gets pregnant - he has no say on abortion, gives a birth - he has to pay or he goes to jail.

Both parties should have a say on whether a child gets born.

M8on [dead]

No, I am not. Good effort though - Google needs spanking.

M8on Coding Boot Camp Enrollment Soars as Students Seek Tech Jobs

That kind of "employment" already exists - known as 'social work'.

M8on Ask HN: Why can't basic OS apps stay fast?

"...forces users to upgrade..."

This is a good thing for computing power progress.

M8on Coding Boot Camp Enrollment Soars as Students Seek Tech Jobs

I am sorry, but you will have to learn JavaScript and some other legacy languages (CSS, HTML) to succeed.