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The question here simply seems to be "is it OK to be a jerk?". I would say no.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "not valid" but that example is absolutely valid typescript, and will compile perfectly fine.

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I would add Teuffel to that list, too: http://www.teuffel.com/

This reminded me of Phil Roberts' excellent talk a couple of years ago at ScotlandJS: "Help, I'm stuck in an event loop". Well worth the 20 minute watch. https://vimeo.com/96425312

> Several 20-something kids interviewed me, and I'm pretty sure I've forgotten more than they know

Not saying you didn't have a bad experience, but it's possible that this kind of attitude didn't help your cause much either...

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Maybe I'm just showing my low IQ, but it takes me 20 or 30 seconds just to understand some of the problems. Maybe introduce difficulty levels? Currently, I can't ever solve a problem if it takes me more than 1 minute - I'd like to be able to get to an answer, even if it's then worth zero points (or even goes into negative points?).

I like the idea, but I can't play more than 2 or 3 rounds. Or maybe the game just isn't aimed for people like me...

Quoting Michael Winner, a multimillionaire conservative, probably isn't your best line of argument :)

But seriously, these are both personal opinions, and the first one even seems to be working against your original assertion that the honour is meaningless.

All things considered, if you have an issue with the monarchy and the "aristocratic" government (not quite accurate, but there's a point there), that's completely valid. Rallying against an almost entirely unrelated honours system is way off-target, and I would imagine that abolishing it would do more harm than good.

I think you're confused about what this honour actually is. Receiving an OBE doesn't imbue any extra rights or powers, it's literally just an award for doing something that helps others. That's specifically what it was created for.

You can't be born into it, and the system has traditionally honoured thousands of 'normal' people that have been nominated, usually by their peers, for doing work in their field or community.

Reductio ad absurdum: everything is meaningless, so why do intelligent, educated people do anything?

I find views like this pointlessly cynical. The man has been done something good for society, why on earth shouldn't he accept the acknowledgement?

https://history.google.com/history/settings, there's a link there to delete everything. EDIT As you already know.

"Audi's UK head office falsely claimed that the entire Audi range was Euro NCAP safety tested". So not just the dealers?

Their problem is finding the cash to build 2 crash cars - until they have the money to do that, they can't sell, and obviously it's far harder to get investment without the safety certifications.

I've seen they've put a similar power train into the chassis of a Vauxhall VX220, so maybe that's the road they'll take with it. Although that would put them in direct competition with Tesla, so perhaps not.

Hah awesome, this car was put together in my father-in-law's garage. Great to see them getting some recognition finally.

First thing that pops to mind is jQuery animations vs CSS transitions/keyframe animations, especially on low-powered mobile devices. I guess that's not explicitly jQuery vs JS, but it's still an example of how it can be done far better.

There's also the fact that you don't have to include a gigantic library of functions you'll never use, just to show a box when you click a button. 37kb is way over 10% of my ideal page load for a simple to moderate site.

I would say that knowing how operators are affecting your code is something that a lot of JS devs probably don't fully grok. For example, why this works: ~function(){}(); or why this... x = (y = 1, 3) ... sets x equal to 3 and y equal to 1. It's not too useful in day-to-day coding, but it shows a deeper understanding of what's going on in there.