snorrah

Wes Bos has a paid course that covers a whole bunch of things over at https://learnnode.com/ - it's relatively recent I believe, so should cover some ES6 goodness.

Youtube-dl at #18 is hilariously telling, although to be fair it's great for archiving clips (from all sorts of sites, not just YouTube) that may get deleted due to all sorts of reasons.

Curious, do you read your post back to yourself after posting, and think "hmm that might make me come across as overly sarcastic and mean rather than simply conveying I don't see the point of what he went to all this effort for" or do you just not care about that kind of thing?

John Siracusa would be proud :)

If anyone from the web team at Next Platform are reading this: please, please consider fixing the weirdness of browsing your site on iPad (and maybe this affects other tablets too).

In portrait mode, the text scrolls off the side of the screen so I have to continually pan back and forth to read an article. In landscape mode, a very thin column of text is used. It's as if the landscape res media query is being applied to portrait view and vice versa.

Edit - oh hmm looks like manually zooming out a bit in portrait will fit the whole article. Was sure that didn't used to be the case in earlier days. Maybe it got fixed!

Or DOES it? Sorry, bad quantum joke ;)

If it helps, Circle is now usable for UK people. I think it's one of the few that makes UK<>US payments easy.

Square Cash is not available in the UK for example. The US has a much larger choice. Unsure about other countries, sorry.

I'm sure it'll get delegated to someone soon! :)

The UK and USA engaged in a fierce battle of 'hold my beer'.

It's possible to be a FOSS proponent without taking it personally whenever someone uses a non-free piece of software.

Is this something that would be affected by file system defaults? I see it writes in 512 byte chunks by default, when MacOS moves to APFS, is this something that might be altered as a result and thus get a 'free' speedup?

This involves URL editing, so mostly useless if you watch Netflix through an appliance e.g. Apple TV

This is a tech-focused link aggregator. Googles a pretty big player in the tech industry, so it seems natural that at some point there may be many google related articles about.

You would know this isn't "fake news" if you spent the time it took to write your post to visit the link instead.

Probably pretty nice for left handed mouse / trackpad users though.

WOW DUDE

Clearly a great opening line. If you write an open letter, try not sounding terrible in your letter.

How big is the nodemodules dir after installing these 12 "small tools" ?

"We will survive this"

But why do we have to play this game again?

Why haven't we learnt from previous mistakes?

But after the Fedora Technical Committee were convinced to accept it, it ballooned from there. Seed blossomed from within.

Facebooks' an american canc^^^^company, so naturally it acts only in its own thinking.

I mean what do you expect? It's facebook. It was founded on dubious merit, the company will operate in the most grey it possibly can.

(Not wanting to anger the tech nerds here: various FB employees have released super interesting stuff back into the tech community such as the recent SSH CA auth article)

But c'mon. When you see anyone accused of foul play, facebook should be the least surprising of them all.

Bit of a tangent, but that was a surprisingly readable article for TheRegister. They seemed very clickbaity with CAPITAL LETTER WORDS scattered around not so long ago. Are they now back to this more reasonable style in general or was this a fluke ?

My guess is that astronautical internet to the space station doesn't have high enough latency to cause problems, so 'normal' protocols can be used happily enough.

But if you want to link a colony on Mars to Earth's internet, you'll need something like this 'store and forward' style networking, rather than trying to rely on interactive two-way realtime-ish communication.

Ah, interesting, it seemed as if it wasn't going to be competing with current ssd's in terms of capacity, but the last part of the article mentions 10x the capacity of nand and so over a terabyte on an M.2 drive. Assuming price might be quite high, it seems like it'll be a full upgrade over nand ssd's.

Ah if I recall, Red Hat use this for their training environments. Haven't actually tried using it though, as they also support ssh access and I went with that.

Reed Richards would be proud

Large-ish discussion from earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7987146

If your English skills are reasonable, it's fairly easy to parse the article and fill in the gaps yourself. Probably easier than a non-native writer wrestling with a spelling or grammar checker when they might not know if the suggestions presented are good or not.

This makes me think of Python 2 vs 3 benchmarks for some reason, although I'm sure I'm not remembering very well.

I assume there's plenty of scope for ES6 to improve and (hopefully?) surpass ES5 in performance in many, if not all, areas?

What would be causing the large slowdowns in ES6 here? Is this a case of having features that make JS nicer to code in, but giving up some performance? Or is this more down to immature compilers not yet optimising ES6 as substantially?

Glad they're focusing on the important issues then.

What the fuck is a content vertical?

Does this cost money..? I remember when the iOS app came out for the computational engine. For $50. I'm sure that was a long since rued decision to price it like that, but I still have this odd feeling about Wolfram doing this fancy stuff but trying to spin a big chunk o dough for it. (Not that it's a bad thing but I don't see cost talked about here compared to their other products?)