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I've lost almost all of my karma on this thread and not a single comment as to why I'm being downvoted (-7 points or so). The original article is right that HN has become an incredibly negative community. Downvoting is the internet equivalent of saying "fuck you." So many people want to tell me to shut up but no one will actually say one word why?

...and you got downvoted. It's absolutely ridiculous that a forum like HN supposedly frequented by the best and brightest has so many immature children.

I previously had no interest in Backbone but those are absolutely amazing learning resources.

Ironically this comment has been downvoted a few times. Point made.

EDIT: try giving a reason for downvoting. Apparently opposition to downvoting is not a popular opinion.

I agree, I see so many comments downvoted to oblivion simply because the comment betrays a lack of rockstar ninja coding ability even without being egregiously wrong. Downvoting should be reserved for trolling, bullshit, and objectively wrong information.

It's pretty ballsy to release this kind of app for free without IAP, but how the hell do you intend to monetize it?

The join button is completely broken in Chrome beta.

I think the top blurb would benefit from specifying what modern problems Wake is good at solving. Certainly, the rest of the docs give a better idea, but most programmers have a short attention span regarding brand new languages and won't get beyond the first paragraph.

Is it safe to assume that anyone wishing to learn Rust can, by alpha2, study The Rust Programming Language and Rust By Example and not need to relearn anything within that scope after 1.0 lands?

I had the same thoughts as you while reading the article and I can only imagine you are being downvoted by nationalists who aren't happy at the suggestion that the Harappans weren't writing Sanskrit epics on their pots.

If you have users in China, then you definitely need an alternative to Google. Google has been almost completely blocked since the days leading up to the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen, so sites using Google's CDN are broken in China. Most people assumed the block would be lifted after the anniversary passed, but so far it's still in place.

From the official docs: "The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, a similar physical computing platform, which is based on the Processing multimedia programming environment." and "the Arduino language is merely a set of C/C++ functions that can be called from your code."

HR departments around the world are going to have to update their mobile dev job postings to include "3+ years of experience with Swift."

The problem is that the alternative to ads is a paywall.

I'm sure their mathematical models are very beautiful, but the facts just don't support this theory at all. The "wheel" argument against this theory is just too damning, and their counterargument is weak: that nearly 4000 years after the language family split up, words for wheel, axle, and yoke managed to spread to nearly all daughter languages as loan words. But the problem is that these supposed loan words words reflect the same sound changes as all of the basic, inherited vocabulary. Thus the wheel vocab must be inherited from the same point in time as words like thou/tu/du.

Not to mention that the material culture found at the Ukraine sites is a much better match for what we know about early Indo-European culture.