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I'll copy below jashkenas' longer answer from the old github issue about this, https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/712#issuec...

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Sorry, folks, but I'm afraid I disagree completely with this line of reasoning -- let me explain why:

Making assignment and declaration two different "things" is a huge mistake. It leads to the unexpected global problem in JavaScript, makes your code more verbose, is a huge source of confusion for beginners who don't understand well what the difference is, and is completely unnecessary in a language. As an existence proof, Ruby gets along just fine without it.

However, if you're not used to having a language without declarations, it seems scary, for the reasons outlined above: "what if someone uses my variable at the top of the file?". In reality, it's not a problem. Only the local variables in the current file can possibly be in scope, and well-factored code has very few variables in the top-level scope -- and they're all things like namespaces and class names, nothing that risks a clash.

And if they do clash, shadowing the variable is the wrong answer. It completely prevents you from making use of the original value for the remainder of the current scope. Shadowing doesn't fit well in languages with closures-by-default ... if you've closed over that variable, then you should always be able to refer to it.

The real solution to this is to keep your top-level scopes clean, and be aware of what's in your lexical scope. If you're creating a variable that's actually a different thing, you should give it a different name.

Closing as a wontfix, but this conversation is good to have on the record.

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Javascript has anonymous function closures - nice sugar for a non-blocking API. Python doesn't have them.

The iPad is not banned in Germany.

  Photoshop’s submenus, window management, and setting 
  screens afford that software package a level of feature 
  depth I don’t believe can be achieved in a mobile 
  environment no matter how sophisticated and intuitive UI 
  conventions become.

I wonder if the author is aware of Photoshop for Android tablets - https://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.adobe.pstouch

Granted, it doesn't have all the features of desktop Photoshop, but it looks like it has a lot of the features, and it has great ratings.

Check out jsonpipe, it makes json greppable.

https://github.com/dvxhouse/jsonpipe

Jsonpipe is excellent for this. It makes json greppable by putting every piece if data on a new line with its key.

  $ echo '{"a": 1, "b": 2}' | jsonpipe 
  / {} 
  /a 1 
  /b 2 
  $ echo '["foo", "bar", "baz"]' | jsonpipe 
  / [] 
  /0 "foo" 
  /1 "bar" 
  /2 "baz"

https://github.com/dvxhouse/jsonpipe

Dropbox works for me as a one-way sync (computer to phone)

Very well-written, but it's a non-story.

Check the comments. Mike has contributed a clojure solution using `double-array` that runs fast, without blowing up the heap with a linked list.

A Java vs Scala post is far more interesting to me than discussing the "shut up about the tools and just work" thesis.

Just watch out that you don't get a 404 one day and end up piping a whole lot of error screen HTML into your shell, it could have wildly unpredictable results.

No, bitcoin has an unencrypted audit trail.

I built http://markhansen.co.nz/scatter.fm and http://wirelessmap.markhansen.co.nz/ using Twitter Bootstrap.

The experience was awesome, it made it so easy to experiment and get a prototype out the door quickly. It was great for these little visualisation projects.

It's still very easy to miss a 'var', even if you know the language. Especially if you've just context-switched from ruby or python.

Google does collect data directly, too. If you're a business owner, you can upload your business location and data here:

http://www.google.com/local/add/g?hl=en-US&gl=US#phonelo...

Users are made aware of it.

I just signed up for an Apps account, and it told me that my domain admin could access all my G+ data.

RVM's overriding of cd isn't portable to other shells. I can't use it in my favourite shell (fish).

Yeah, there's http://beginrescueend.com/integration/fish/, but I tried that and it started printing errors every time I used cd due to some bug (this was over a year ago, there's a good chance it's been fixed, but it just left me really shy about overriding cd).

Monkey patching in ruby has well-known problems (what happens when two libraries patch the same object?), and now good library maintainers know not to monkey-patch standard libraries. Neither should RVM.

The monkey-patching of `cd` is the main reason I'm not using RVM. I depend on `cd` to work, every time, rock solid, especially when my system is unstable. I can't risk having a dependency or bug in their `cd` script breaking my most commonly used shell command.

rbenv has demonstrated that it's not necessary to override `cd` to manage ruby versions, so why does RVM still do it?

While this is hilarious, it's exactly fair. Dart is still in a very early tech preview, and they clearly haven't optimised code generation yet.

Right now, it's probably designed to be run through something like Closure Compiler, which removes dead code and minimizes the output.

It doesn't matter if it's associated with the comic star, it only matters if it's in the same area as the trademark.

For me, pocket room and security. I used to have to carry around a phone,keys, CD player, wallet, and camera.

Now the camera and ipod are integrated into the phone, and I'm just carrying my phone, keys, and wallet. I really appreciate the extra pocket space, and I'd love to fold the wallet into the phone and get some more.

The extra security of having a PIN on your wallet is just a bonus.

Signatures are a joke, nobody checks them (I used to work in retail). And even if people did check them, they're trivial to forge (there's a copy of the signature on the card telling you what it's supposed to look like!)

Why? To better incentivize people to make music in the 1940s and 50s?

How does strace hook it?

To be fair, it's easier to commit to a project on Github. There's an 'edit' button, which lets you make changes inline on the website.

Small nitpick: the customers will feel the pain if their username/password is leaked through SQL injection.

How does it integrate with the `coffee` executable? Does coffeescript have a compiler plugin system, or are you patching the compiler? Will this cause me problems when I try to update my coffeescript compiler?

I still don't get what I'd use it for. Is it like jquery? Is it like rails?

That's the main reason I'm not using RVM. I depend on `cd` to work, every time, rock solid, especially when my system is unstable. I can't risk having a dependency or bug in their `cd` script breaking my most commonly used shell command.

None at all?