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I currently only have experience using CasperJS which also wraps-around PhantomJS. This has different goals (simpler) and therefore a simpler API, though. The use case at Segment (automatically generating vector logos from a given graphic) is even cooler though, I think! Thanks for sharing!

If you started with Pale King and already love him youre in for a real treat. Not that Pale King is bad, just obviously incomplete (which it necessarily was, unfortunately).

It sounds like you talked yourself into doing it the way the author in the article suggests halfway through your post :)

As far as we know, history can only be written the once. No rewrites.

It's a combination of being intellectually lazy+familial influence+narcissism+lack of perspective. Not really that complicated once you realize that all of this is reinforced and forms a feedback loop throughout these individuals' lives because they tend to congregate and be friends (thus, more likely to show their true feathers) with others who are just like them.

That is a LOT of words

Sometimes people optimize for fun, out of sheer curiosity, or some combination of things like that. Not everything we do as programmers has to be for some solely practical purpose. Having some fun with opcode optimization is certainly permissible and if you program a lot in PHP, learning how things work under the hood will make you a better PHP programmer in general.

Yeah, honestly I'm not qualified to answer that question. If I had to guess, one of the reasons why going airborne would be so bad is that it allows the virus to sprawl (geographically) much faster than it ever could otherwise (because it would be subject to wind etc).

Basically it could and would spread much faster and further if it were truly airborne. Also pretty much makes it impossible to contain because we can't just quarantine the earth's atmosphere.

It's not my call to make. It's the call of the numerous individuals who are infinitely more qualified than anyone reading and posting on HN. People that work at places like the CDC and have years of training and experience researching the effects of viruses like Ebola. They're all saying not to worry about that.

Even if they strongly suspected it will become airborne (based on something other than theory), do you think they'd just announce it to the public like "oh, hey, btw..."? Can you imagine the hysteria that would cause? Not "a bit" like another poster suggested. The effect of the hysteria could very well be worse than what the virus might cause on its own. It's really impossible to know, that is why we take measures to prevent getting worked into a highly irrational hysteria. These measures would include things like listening to qualified individuals and not ignoring the rational points they are trying to make to you.

You're confusing "spreads via an exchange of body fluids" (getting sneezed or coughed on by an infected individual would be included in this category) with "can survive and therefore spread via the air without any direct contact with bodily fluids" (walking outside of your house and breathing). You can't even call that a "semantic" distinction without coming off as really dishonest considering it's a totally different infection vector.

Anyway, I'm just arguing the points I've heard made by ACTUAL VIROLOGISTS. Read: PhDs who have been studying this exact behavior in viruses for many years. They've all said the same thing: theoretically possible, extremely unlikely.

That's all well and good but a slew of actual virologists disagree with this, citing examples such as no viruses affecting humans ever changing from being spreadable via bodily fluid/direct contact to becoming aerosol. This includes all viruses that have ever been known to affect human beings.

So, yes, while it is theoretically possible, it is extremely unlikely and really not worth discussing because no good can come from it.

That sounds pretty complicated to me :D But, I am admittedly a layman in this area.

Of the serious mental illnesses, they're almost always inherited.

Could you elaborate on how it is only "marginally" more effort to make faux 3D pixel games vs. 2D pixel art games? Seems like it would be quite a bit more complicated to me...

There's also a strong positive correlation between incidence of depression and intelligence.

I don't put that much stock or value in anything about Steve Jobs. After he died and lots of bio-type stuff started getting published, it quickly became obvious that he was a fairly avg businessman who succeeded only because he was lucky enough to surround himself with really smart people. Not to mention being in the right place at the right time.

All of the "amazing" ideas I've heard of that Apple implemented were things that Steve Jobs A) didn't come up with himself but also B) actively fought against (but eventually conceded on some only after those around him made strong cases). Probably the best of those examples is the existence of 3rd party apps on the iPhone. Wasn't Jobs' idea, and he had to be convinced it was a good idea worth pursuing. In retrospect, if you had to point to one single decision that made the iPhone the market leader that it is today, it would be the app ecosystem.

Whether that is what he meant or not, there is a very strong case to be made that certain forms of content consumption enabled by computers (mostly the internet but software in general) are addictive in the classical sense (I assume you mean in the medical/DSM sense).

Actually he (rather, his parenting style) is the subject of the article...

By blowing them up or centering them at 1.0 scale?

This is going to throw advertising firms into an epic tizzy. The de facto mobile web ad size has been standardized around the 320px (320x50 usually) width of portrait iPhones since basically the dawn of smartphone advertising. Now suddenly they have 3 widths to worry about just for iPhone.

"world star" and "encourages them" is a racist dogwhistle that I'd be happy to translate for you. He meant those "uppity, animalistic black males"

That paired with the attitude that criminals are essentially no different than most people that post here is how I drew that conclusion. Barring extremes like members of organized crime, violent gangs, cartels, etc. of course. Even still, broad strokes don't apply to those organizations but you could definitely make the case that the affiliated develop a more uniquely "criminal" mindset. Keyword being DEVELOP.

Criminality is not inherent, sorry if this makes you uncomfortable.

I couldn't tell if that was intended to be a slight against the avg. American's tenuous grasp on English, or if they literally meant people from the Americas which may include Central and South America.

Unlike many other similar outlets, New Yorker editors generally don't try to write a bunch about science that they don't understand (because why should they? they're trained to be write). If you want to understand the exact science behind it, your source should be a journal or actual scientist, not an editorial content house.

You know what makes a criminal different from you? Nothing besides the fact that they broke a law and then got caught. Have you ever broken a law?

You do at least realize you're a racist, right?

Bitbucket has had a(n honestly better) version of this functionality for a while. One of the few areas where they beat Github.

As for which is better... depends. That's why it's good to have both on a toggle like so.

This isn't a slight on you(r post) but I just wanted to point out that nobody (at least nobody outside of the startup/tech world) believes that SV is a savior of humanity, much less the only savior.

Oops accidentally clicked into the comments of an HN post regarding economics. Nothing of value here.

Yeah, I agree it would be annoying for long-form content (which is why magazines/newspapers never really adopted layouts like that in earnest) even if only because we've learned to read and therefore favor rectangular blocks of text.

It's still a neat effect for creating little asides, blurbs, etc. though

That's why other industries don't do "crunch mode." Can you imagine:

"We're really behind on building this bridge" "CRUNCH MODE!"

This is more the inevitable outcome of a creative fictional work scraping up against the bottom of the barrel. They came up with the killer idea: "play as a cop!" but I bet they quickly realized that the avg cop in the United States doing their job correctly is not very exciting from a first-person-shooting perspective.

So, to make being a police officer more compelling, they had to ignore the fact an officer shouldn't really have cause fire a gun, much less draw one, very often. A first person shooter without the shooting is just, well, not a game. The inevitable result is a videogame about being a cop that does a lot of shooting. Call of Duty developers have done less responsible stuff for the sake of crafting a "unique" feature for their shooters.