grannyg00se

I like the license, I like the level and style of documentation, I like the lean scope, and I like the timing as I've just started looking into an MVC framework to learn. I was going to choose react over angular but now I'm going to choose this over either.

"To allow any computer user to watch movies easily streaming from torrents, without any particular knowledge."

The screen shot shows a bunch of very old looking movies, and categories like film-noir and biography. Is there really a vast resource of torrents for all potential movies with enough seeds to stream them for real-time viewing?

No need to fear. I have a recent Thinkpad (T530) and it boots ArchLinux painlessly from USB or internal 32gig ssd. Also boots into windows8 from the main 120gig ssd if necessary. It's UEFI with secureboot disabled.

Oh. That's interesting. It would read much better if they specified the ac/h rating they are referring to. It would also provide some actual information rather than a statement that sounds insane.

These alternative house construction strategies always get my attention. But the real tough part is finding affordable and desirable land upon which to build one.

" It must:

    – Have strong thermal insulation without thermal bridges,
    – Be perfectly airtight,
    – Capture maximum solar energy.

"

Perfectly airtight? With wood and insulation?

What's the issue exactly?

I guess github should replace their "Fork me on github" banner with a "Rip off my work" banner.

Yeah, I don't know what it is, what they've done, or why they are stopping.

Not in any real detail anyway.

It's not about storage or page count. It's about quality and relevant material. When I search for "band" (disambiguation) I wouldn't want to end up seeing a list of every high school band in the western hemisphere. It's just not important enough (to enough people) to include as part of an encyclopedia.

"When Is a hyper precise millisecond timestamp of when the message was created.

It is 17 digits long, which is 4 digits longer than the normal new Date().getTime()"

Is this serious? I can't find any assignment of "when" in the code. And why would you expect hyper precise timing from js? And if it has four more digits wouldn't it no longer be milliseconds?

Probably helps that the message containing that quote also contained a handful of significant examples of poor coding choices along with suggestions for improvement.

Interesting. I wonder what people typically describe after suddenly becoming communicative after months or years of vegetative state.

Where does he claim that exercise doesn't matter?

"Exercise: You can’t out-exercise a bad diet, but regular exercise helps keep weight off, and changes your attitude for the better. And exercise has enormous health benefits beyond any impact on weight. What exercise? Something. Anything. “Some is good, more is better, everything counts” Freedhoff suggests."

"as long as it's commented correctly there's no issue"

How do you know it is commented correctly? Now you have to understand the code and the comment and mentally confirm them to be in sync. You also have to maintain the comment when you make changes to the code and you have to trust that others are going to do the same.

It would be better if the code itself was expressive enough so that a comment wasn't needed.

Thanks for that. I found it to be quite fascinating but at the same time somewhat unsettling. The depth of complexity seemed limitless. As though there would be no end to the layers of abstraction one could reason about - and must reason about, if we are to truly understand ourselves.

So Sublime text provides a 99% feature loss but a great usability gain?

Can you explain that a bit?

This is a hilarious collection of historic "facts". Thanks for posting.

"1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non -computer scientists.

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964."

"‘Like’ing something on FB is entirely different that endorsing a product for your friends, "

How? What is it to publicly announce that you like something? That's an endorsement. Why else would you be "liking" something on FB? To privately remind yourself that you like it?

Perfect. Kevin gets to publicly announce that he likes something, and for anybody who is listening, they're also notified that the product happens to be on sale. I don't see how Kevin has been slighted just because his willful endorsement of a product went hand in hand with a notification that the product is on sale.

The fact that you indicated you like it and want to share that with your social network has not changed. If you "like" a brand, it has everything to do with brands and advertising. You just indicated that you like that brand. And by doing so you've told Facebook that you want that endorsement to be public. Just the same as if you were to "like" a blog post. You want everyone to know that you like it. Otherwise why would you be publicly announcing it on Facebook?

When you "like" something you are telling Facebook that you want your social network to know that you like that thing. Doesn't it make sense that Facebook would then go about telling people that you said you liked it? That's the whole point of clicking the like button.

So much of that is hard to watch.

Particularly the teaching of jQuery to people who are just starting out. And the multiple assertions that one can "pick it up in a day", whether it be programming or teaching skills.

Seems to be about throwing together a web page in a day rather than learning to code.

And it seems the usefulness of computer programs doesn't extend beyond ecards, web sites, and "apps".

Perhaps they spend slightly less than others, but what interests me is that there is an exponential growth of R&D spending over the last five years with no real innovation (in my opinion, since the iPhone). And Microsoft has been spending consistently around 15% of their revenue on R&D. For what? Higher pixel density and an OS with tiles that can be swiped on touch screens? Is R&D really that low ROI? We're talking about tens of billions of dollars here.

"The night of my suicide attempt I called a friend and told him that I was contemplating suicide. He told me he was sorry and to call a suicide hotline. We have not talked about my suicide attempt since that night. "

The word 'friend' is used over ten times referring to some human acquaintance or other but it really seems like this person doesn't have a single real friend.

You don't need to be a ninja-rockstar web developer to know js. But more importantly, I think it would be useful to emphasize the fact that pull requests don't necessarily need to be about improvements to code.

I'm guessing zed was bored - or just felt like trolling?

The library isn't "functional", does very little of use, and horribly pollutes the global name space.

Maybe he just felt like venting about jQuery overuse and snobby programmers.

Isn't this just a matter of being in the best environment for what you are trying to achieve? Is it a slap in the face to Canadian arts and culture every time an actor leaves and moves to LA? There are some realities involved and doing what's best for yourself shouldn't be interpreted as some personal attack against your culture. There should be no expectation that your country of origin would get preferential treatment when weighing the options.

I don't remember seeing such an individual complaint laid out against any one company. The post was a personal gripe.

I'd hate to see the front page of HN turn into a YC complaint board.

That's great! And it seems to have pretty good browser support.

I got two out of two and then stopped. This is another "look how many weird results we can get out of javascript" exercise.

Gary Bernhardt covered this humorously here: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

And Crockford covers some issues more formally in his talks.

The takeaway is that if you do something that can possibly be interpreted in a strange way, javascript is mostly likely going to interpret it in a way that you didn't expect. You could say it sucks because of that and/or you can look at the ecmascript standard and try to reason about it. But either way, it's best not to do anything even slightly ambiguous. Stick to the good parts.