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Why do we need a substitute to a healthy, balanced life? I'm sure its an amazing piece of science, but how is this better than being physically active? As a person who exercises, am I supposed to be considering this instead of my current lifestyle? And if not - if it wouldn't be a better option for me - then how could it be a better option for anyone else?

I'm genuinely bewildered. What is this for?

I agree. As per Taleb (Antifragile) if you adopt conventional perspective of "probability" you will be bitten by the occurrence of the apparently improbable. Downside (here called "impact") is much easier to assess/predict, and compare against "upside", which in the case of taking infosec risks could be e.g. saved implementation cost.

Probability is more of a distraction. Probably.

>> If people were afraid to try new things, we wouldn't have things like Ember, or React, or Meteor, or Mythril, or Rails.

Or washing machines. Or cars. Or penicillin.

The anti-innovation mindset that pervades in this industry just baffles me. Sure, don't rewrite the accounting system every time a new framework comes out, but don't knock those forging the future either. (I know you weren't, I'm adding to your reaction to the parent.)

Finally, effective decentralisation of the vacuous inane gossip that is the currency of our golden information age.

Medicine and law require licenses to practice, as well as an exclusive pathway to the main game via lengthy tenure in supporting roles. This is in part to to protect their clients and patients. I want to know that the guy operating on me has relevant training and experience. But it also acts as a barrier to entry, keeping wages high in each industry.

Programming requires you to have a free account on Github and some demonstrated ability.

Keep your game up and your network current.

I understand why you'd address this to entrepeneurs given the audience around here, but really, is there anyone to whom this advice _doesn't_ apply? Sure, if you're a textbook entrepeneur you're working hard and might overlook other things. Same if you're working three jobs to make ends meet, or if you're studying all hours, or looking after your family. The advice has common validity.

Your strategy won't work for everyone, or even most people, because "just do it", whilst very compelling short term, tends to lose effectiveness over time. Instead seek out something that you really enjoy, that coincidentally provides great exercise, removing any problem about motivation and long term commitment. If hanging at the gymn really is your thing that's great, but if not, don't beat yourself up, get into something else instead, cycling, karate, trapeze, dance, roller-derby, yoga, there are lots of alternatives, main thing is to make it fun then you won't need the "I must do this" self-discipline every day, you'll go out of your way to do it.

And as others say, explore creative and cultural activities too. Your mind does not thrive on pure coding and hustling alone, it needs its own free-form exercise too.

+1 for 5:2, been on it all this year. Feels good to assert some discipline around eating, toughens up body and mind. Plus I'm now 6 months older than I was to start with, which proves that it extends life, right?

If you have kids check out The Lorax movie where the two marketing dudes are pitching the ad for bottled air.

Agree, this wasn't too enlightening. I highly recommend the differential calculus course on Khan Academy. I wanted to brush up recently after having not used this stuff for over 20 years, and it was the best resource I found.

localStorage.getItem("myPlaylist")

I'm not saying that's what they use, it could be WebSQL, IndexedDB, FileAPI - local data storage is built into your browser.

Why use this instead of perl/sed/awk?

Because you program in JS all day long and don't want to look up man pages every time you want to do some simple text processing, that's why.

I think he was demonstrating function syntax. This shorter version also works:

nip 'return /^var/.test(line)'

An implicit return, added if the input doesn't match /[function|return]/ would be nice, along with aliasing line as l, then you'd have:

nip '/^var/.test(l)'

The examples in the article seem much more focused on NodeJS.

Hey, you trendy designers, engineers worked hard to implement border-radius!

But seriously though, nice work on the reorg, and the inline help and responsive on mobile rocks. Well done!

How much of the stack will be open source? In the week after FoundationDB ceased to exist, there's still that nagging question of what happens when you guys get acquired. If the UI and deployment piece was open source and could be self-hosted it would make your own free and paid hosting + CDN more attractive by removing this concern, as well as open up revenue streams for supporting on-site enterprise installs.

That was my thought too. Looks great though, and I intend to load up a site to try it out.

Yep, what's "innovative" for one person or team is "boring" for another, and vice versa. NodeJS / PHP is a good example.

I understand that FoundationDB's main point of differentiation from other NoSQL document DBs was support for transactional integrity across documents. Others (i.e. all open-source options, AFAIK) support atomic transactions only on a single document.

Sounds like the author had been told this, didn't quite get it, and mumbled this stuff instead.

Indeed, Paypal doesn't want you to pay with your credit card, and won't let you change your default PayPal payment method. You have to go through a process to select it Every.Single.Time, if you remember, and if you overlook to do it - well, what do you know, PayPal just saved the CC fee...

OK, you clearly don't go surfing at lunchtime with a meeting afterwards that you don't want to miss. Like I just did. With a watch. And no phone.

That said, a normal watch is fine for me, getting emails while in the water would be a hugely negative feature.

Agree that there are many untapped opportunities in voice UI, not just for elderly but for people doing stuff such as driving, operating tools etc. (Again, not surfing!) After all, in the end video did not kill the radio star.

> my own pet programming language (we all do one, or several)

I don't. Thanks to all those that do though. Interesting thought experiment, even as a spectator.

100% Backwards compatible? So this will work in IE6? Or 7, or 8, or 9, or 10?

I think you meant 100% backwards compatible with ES6. As far as that goes, it sounds like a pretty good addition to the ES6 standard.

Agree, removing the need for any special editor support would be great, even if offered as a compiler option. Makes the detection of JS a non-issue too.

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.

Thanks, added to my watch list. My Mum directed a theatre production of this years ago, and it's still one of the most memorable plays I've seen, be interesting to see the Beeb version.

I saw this effect off the beach near me a few weeks ago, it was quite captivating as the breakers were lit up as if by an underwater neon (I actually thought it was an artificial light show of some kind at first). But although deeply impressive, it certainly wouldn't have had a meaningful effect on visibility of the neighbouring land. Moonlight is much more effective.

This is an architecture preference disguised as a tool review. It should be called "Reasons why I don't like client-side web programming and prefer to work with server-side logic".

And if you want to program like Holmes as well...

http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Learning-Program-Computer-S...

This was the first programming book I read, back in the eighties. Lately I got a copy for nostalgia's sake, and it's all still spot on good practice today - problem definition, algorithm design, avoiding global state etc - although the language (both the Pascal syntax and the Conan-Doyle-style prose) probably wouldn't suit today's "Dummy's Guide" market.

Developers will view REST APIs with the same dismissive disdain reserved today for SOAP/COM/CORBA. In 5 years time there'll be something much cooler, probably based on GIT. (GIT will live forever.)

The hot in-demand skill will be writing tight C code for ASM.JS based single page holographic apps.

We will commute in flying cars and poverty will be history.

Or maybe not - who knows? The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Nobody has a crystal ball, so it's really up to you.