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When did HN become so... radicalized? There's nothing inherently wrong with these companies being big. The problems are with them being too board. Should Google own the creation of content (Blogger, Youtube), finding content (search) and transmitting content (fiber)? Should Comcast transmit content (TV, Xfinity) and create content (NBC, Hulu)? This is where the problems arise like conflicts of interest, diminished competition, etc. We saw this clearly in Argentina, when as soon as the government started working on legislation to prevent the telecoms from becoming monopolies, since they own newspapers and TV news, they started bombarding the public with negative press.

It shouldn't be hard to regulate this. Just split them up.

> If you're running code on the server, there's no reason to compile down to ES5

Actually, ES6 is not running at full speed in Node yet. So there are still some performance benefits on transpiling.

There was a slightly surreal version of a similar story published to BuzzFeed some time ago http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/i-followed-my-stolen-iphone-a...

Maybe you can change that for the remake of Cosmos.

Also, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. Not 100% 2D, but close in that spirit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9r6J0b-2BI

The book The Martian, big-budget movie coming soon, has some pretty awesome fictional-yet-very-well-informed situations of things that were so unimaginable to have an impact on anything and still caused things to go terribly wrong. Highly recommended.

In my country the potential employee would have to be registered as an independent contractor before being able to charge for the provided service. And then if he wanted to become a full time employee he'd have to unregister as a contractor.

> He may have just killed life on other planets

Not so much. Here's a different article posted to HN recently: "Can life exist on a planet without a star?", http://aeon.co/magazine/science/can-life-exist-on-a-planet-w...

This is an area where the new syntax for modules in EcmaScript 6 does really well. Since exports are static, a dead code elimination tool can figure out which exports from a module are being used and remove the ones that are not being used. As mentioned in comments about how the Closure Compiler works, you can't really do this with purely dynamic code, but you can do it with static imports/exports.

You can do this in the current dev tools by setting a conditional breakpoint. Conditional breakpoints allow you to write an expression which you can force to always be falsy. For example, "console.log()" returns undefined so it's falsy and it won't actually break.

Hi! There are helpers for dealing with dynamic content like numbers and dates, but also there's message formatting for when you have your own translations like "I have {numCats, number} cats.". Here's the explanation for the Handlebars integration: http://formatjs.io/guide/#messageformat-syntax.

That was the good old YUI2. YUI 3 DOM code actually looked a lot like jQuery: http://www.jsrosettastone.com/#common

Hi! I'm a member of the YUI team. Pure is doing great and we're still maintaining it!

IIUC, a spring.

To me it went from perplexing, to hilarious to just gross.

From TFA:

'Kroes said: “Some are calling for the International Telecommunications Union to take control of key Internet functions. I agree that governments have a crucial role to play, but top-down approaches are not the right answer. We must strengthen the multi-stakeholder model to preserve the Internet as a fast engine for innovation.”'

And the concrete actions they propose have more to do with 'Establishment of a clear timeline for the globalisation of ICANN and the “IANA functions”' and finding ways to resolve conflicts between the laws of different countries.

This does not look like government control, just change over the ICANN (a private US non-profit) and the formation of a global advisory group. Can it deviate into government control? Sure. But that doesn't seem to be what is being proposed.

Badland is free on Android. And in the Play Store it has 271,073 ratings https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frogmind.b...

...so yeah.

If it's not a joke, the city of the future just got quite a bit noisier.

Typed Racket and Typed Clojure are major sources of inspiration/reference for typed versions of JavaScript like TypeScript and possibly future versions of EcmaScript.

US$100 is a lot of money for a lot of people in other markets.

> once prediction 1 starts to happen, (...) there will be...

...people that will want to use it to track their kids

While I definitely wouldn't use one every day, a smartphone with e-ink screen sounds like a great idea for a more functional version of the SpareOne http://www.spareone.com/spareone/spareone-plus-emergency-pho...

It's based on parts of YUI and reworked from there. The plan is to have YUI depend on Pure for styling.

For comparison here's what he had to say about "Pirates of Silicon Valley" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lx9JsSTklI

I liked the API in Verbal Expressions a bit more: https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions

I don't think it's about built-in support. I believe it's about how JSON maps to common language constructs such as lists and hash tables. XML on the other hand needs to map to a complex tree structure that requires another level of abstraction.

It looks that way, yes. http://i.imgur.com/ytgUlLu.jpg

And the big point here is that the members of the RFC group were considering breaking the EcmaScript standard and change it to MUST which would break existing programs and the "workaround" in the article.

The Android Developer site has a pretty old and still relevant article about designing for tablets and handhelds: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/tablets-and-han.... I particularly like the idea of splitting functionality into "fragments" that get displayed differently based on the screen size.

This figure has always been a reference point to me: http://developer.android.com/images/fundamentals/fragments.p...

You should also take a look at Pure[1]. It's a series of minimal components to help you get started.

[1] http://purecss.io/