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Does this build upon http://square.github.io/dagger/?

I'm casual reading these books

* Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications.

* How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know.

* Black Hat Python.

Paused reading

* Functional Programming in Scala.

* Version Control with Git.

Bought due to HN praises, skimmed through, but probably won't read

* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

Amazingly well written replies everyone! Wonderful community!

I agree that the economy might not be "big enough" yet. And yes I agree that we need more progress and probably more growth. But do we need to be in a hurry?

It surprises me that none of the commenters has mentioned global warming - a side effect of economic growth.

So, what do HN readers think about the correlation between economic growth and global warming? Should monetary policy not bother about including global warming side effects due to increased co2 pollution due to economic growth into their economics equations?

It's true that all time housing prices is not a good thing. But low interest rates helps keep the Swedish housing bubble growing. Low interest rates encourages people to invest big but when the interest rates go back up people risk getting in financial trouble.

Why the obsession of economic growth? In Sweden we currently have negative prime interest rate and people have higher salaries than ever and housing prices are all time high.

This greed doesn't lead to less global warming or happier people. I think politicians and economists should start thinking about what actually makes people happy. Economics is efficient management of resources nothing else. Giving the population ability to stay healthy with affordable health care, moderate taxes and stability should be a main priority.

Learn from W3Schools tutorials

HTML http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

PHP+MySQL http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_connect.asp

Yes. The Indian Microsoft virus phone scam is well known. Search for examples on YouTube.

This makes me think about the immensely cool self destructing sunglasses in Mission Impossible

The more people emphasize the differences between men and women the less likely the bad stereotypes are to go away. People whine and repeat about gender differences.

I'd prefer we all just disagree when someone says something is girly. Man up and stand up for men and women's rights to be judged as people not gender without whining when someone fails to do so.

I'd say you would probably benefit from human interaction and small doses of germs to build up your immune system which may make you less sensitive in the long run.

Why worry about not doing something instead of just relaxing or doing something you wanted to do anyway? What is so important about being successful and accomplished that you forget to live and enjoy the small things in life. And what about all the other important things in life like a good health, family relationships, culture, travel, sports and all the other things that makes life full...? What is the point of focusing all the energy on success and not about life quality? / a Swede

I posted this link a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9056041

I posted this link after having read the author's comment to a one star review on Amazon:

"Kyle Simpson8 months ago Report Abuse I can assure you, my goal of splitting up the content into a book series had ZERO to do with making more money. It's actually quite the opposite. One of the things I hate the most about tech books is that I spend $35-50 on a big book of which there's only a few chapters I actually care about. I almost never read a whole book.

I decided when I wrote this content that I'd make each logical chunk of content available separately, which means that you can buy only the stuff that you actually care about. This COULD quite likely mean that I make a lot less money in the overall picture, because there will be plenty of people who don't buy all the books, or even not enough of them that would have generated the same income as a single book would have.

This places you, the reader, more in control, not only of what you buy and own, but more deeply of what you spend your money on compared to the content you get. Rather than being about me greedily making more money, it rather downgrades my ability to make bigger chunks of money per copy for the majority of people who (like me) only want/need part of the content.

With regards to this content being "pointless", that seems quite a spurious and unsubstantiated claim. Pointless to you? Perhaps. But I feel quite certain there's a lot of content in there (like block scoping, etc) that most developers (and perhaps even you) aren't fully aware of. If you're already a JS expert (even on all the new ES6 stuff coming), then you probably do know JS and I'm not sure why you bought the book.

The spirit of the whole series (given the title) is to get us all (myself included) to admit how we don't fully know JS and how we need to dig deeper than we have before. If that's lost on you, I'm sorry.

One last comment: these books are all available fully for free to read here: http://YouDontKnowJS.com In addition, Amazon's site makes preview snippets of the book available to read for free so you can get an idea of what you're buying. It's a shame you apparently didn't read the content/previews before buying, you could have saved your $5-7 (at least it wasn't $35-50)."

Hacker News is a stream of so many diverse topics and perhaps contra-productive if you want to cure your distracted mind.

I'm also thinking exactly like you and want to focus on Android programming and Java development but keep distracting myself with Linux Kernel books, pen testing with Python etc. I wish there were more advanced topics in narrow topics so that the cravings for deep understanding and knowledge and dream of awesomeness would be satisfied.

This is like anti-noise-reduction. Which to me is weird. It's the fan white(?) noise which makes my blood pressure go up not down. So I wonder if it isn't just a myth that this should be calming at all.

That said, I still think the page is very well made and the sounds sound great! Well done!

Yeah I personally think the page has shown bad habits much worse than Angular. I think AngularJS makes it REALLY easy to make SPA applications with data binding. I find it ironic that they bash AngularJS while their own site has (had) sever loading issues.

Don't blame the tool blame the fool :).

The page is not loading properly for me (on a Windows laptop with Chrome). When I use the given link I get "500 - InternalServerError Something went horribly, horribly wrong while servicing your request. We're sorry :-(" and when I go via javascriptkicks.com it keeps loading and never completes.

I really like this article. It shows that we don't need inferiority syndrom and instead can create the next Bash or zsh, etc. I personally think that small unix tools and shells will never cease to feel a bit like magic

TV can also be something which relaxes your brain and reduces stress. I do however agree that excessive TV watching is utter waste of time.

I like

xsnow

and

curl -L http://bit.ly/10hA8iC | bash

Nice, however that would remove an incentive for innovation

I find it interesting that he thinks anonymous taxi travelling is important and that sexual services should be legal.

I live in Sweden where -C is very common at winters. -25-30 is considered very cold even by us though. Nasal mucus freezes and skin "bites".

Does anyone think this air crash investigation will be anything like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerolinee_Itavia_Flight_870 investigation? It also exploded over sea, pieces were found. First they thought it exploded due to a missile from a military jet. Then some engineers found out that the explosion was a bomb in a rear airplane toilet.

I would guess that this is just a joke, but a fun one.

In my understanding REST is just a name for when HTTP (and in particular its verbs GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD) are used to operate on data (resources) by using URL paths, headers and data. The objective is something similar to the good old "remote procedure call" concept where computers can invoke actions on remote computers. There used to be complicated technologies like CORBA and plain RMI to aid computers in being able to communicate with each others.

Modern often means simple. It should be easy to operate or resources via a web API and REST is often the answer. Use the HTTP technology which is already there and embrace it and create technologies around it. KISS principle is king, as opposed to inventing a proprietary complex and useless own method of data communication.

My smart far-away and very old relative once said during the dot com boom: "computers are just tools, nothing else, people seem to see something magical in computers that is just not there". She was a very clever old lady. Still I love their logical magic and hope computers will never cease to amaze me.

This article is so rad!

I love when something is explained in such an excellent simple way and was a good refresher for me. This is how things should be taught.

I can only speak for myself, but I am tired of these "soft" software development books and the various "movements". They seem to be attempts to transform our technical field from solving real world problems via math and deep understanding into something like politics or religion.

I think recent success of these soft topics may be based on people's feeling of self improvement and enlightenment. I can understand that it creates a nice feeling, but prefer to be enlightened by actually learning to solve real things in a more elegant, efficient way than before and I prefer to learn the rest via actual work experience.

Real self-help would mean to become independent from advice from the outside and looking into yourself and finding out how you can do something better by actually doing it...

This article is utter rubbish :)