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kimsk112on 300 drones helped Lady Gaga create American flag in the night sky

Try this from wired.

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/lady-gaga-halftime-show-drones...

kimsk112on I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix

They do provide persistent file system.

"We have a persistent file system, so anything you store within your project is kept. This means you can use files as a flat file database, or save your database files locally (see our SQLite3 and NeDB examples). You can also use third-party storage services, like a hosted MongoDB database or Redis (see our MongoDB example).

We recommend creating a folder called ‘.data’ as a safe place to store your database files. This folder isn’t copied across when a project is remixed."

kimsk112on China smog: Red alerts shut down factories, schools

This seems to get worse every time I hear the news about pollution in China. I wonder how was it like in US cities before the Clean Air Acts or if this is as bad as Great Smog of London.

kimsk112on Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density

I agree. Knowing that there is Uber service for the 'last mile' encourages me to ride public transit. I hardly have any good experience with Taxi, so I try to avoid it as much as possible.

kimsk112on Want a Job in Silicon Valley? Keep Away from Coding Schools

Just curious who are those "big 4" companies?

kimsk112on Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej Dies at 88

There is no such law requiring them to hang his picture. Many Thai restaurants in US also have his picture hanged.

kimsk112on Announcing TypeScript 2.0

If you use webpack, you could just add ts-loader as a first loader and babel-loader as a second one. Source-map works great too.

kimsk112on Announcing TypeScript 2.0

Have you tried transpiling to ES6 and then use Babel?

kimsk112on Investing for Geeks

Even if you can guarantee that your retirement income wouldn't be higher, you can't guarantee that your tax would be lower either. So I'd have both traditional and Roth IRA (e.g., 50/50)