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BrutallyHonest··on Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly
I would rather have a permanent top-level tracking banner section built right into my browser as long as I don't have to write JS anymore. It's very high on my priority list.
BrutallyHonest··on Sturgeon seeks Brussels talks to protect Scotland's EU membership
Politically whiny, want the independence but keep the £, have a lot of preferences already etc.
BrutallyHonest··on Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit
Past behaviour somewhat predicts future behaviour.
BrutallyHonest··on Sturgeon seeks Brussels talks to protect Scotland's EU membership
Possibly, although I wouldn't rush it. Worth seeing which countries will remain in the EU by the time UK finalises the exit.
BrutallyHonest··on Sturgeon seeks Brussels talks to protect Scotland's EU membership
It would be more fair to hold a referendum in England whether it should be united with Scotland. Would be more productive for Scotland's independence.
BrutallyHonest··on Sturgeon seeks Brussels talks to protect Scotland's EU membership
And of course, Hong Kong and Singapore will also stop being financial centres, since they haven't been in the EU to begin with.
BrutallyHonest··on The wisdom of smaller crowds
It's more to do with people being shamed into not publicly stating their real intention to vote. This will happen in USA with Trump again.
BrutallyHonest··on UK votes to leave EU
You want to exercise rights without fully committing?
BrutallyHonest··on UK votes to leave EU
The whole thing needs to be refactored.
BrutallyHonest··on C# 7.0 – What to Expect
Finance, line of business, medical, enterprise.
BrutallyHonest··on Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
Even minimalistic flat style popularised by Microsoft?
BrutallyHonest··on Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
1) To become as mainstream in a general-purpose way as OOP and functional programming paradigms are. One of the problems I know is lack of composability.

2) To become your favourite approach.

BrutallyHonest··on Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
What is Actor Model lacking?
BrutallyHonest··on Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
If an answer could be confused with a "real" one then it's as good.
BrutallyHonest··on Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
Hi Alan,

Could you please answer:

1) What is your opinion about Actor Model? Does it have a potential? What is the next step for OOP?

2) Do you think software of the future should be end-user modifiable?

3) What would be the Dynabook of 2016? Smart contact lenses with a gesture interface?

Thank you very much!

BrutallyHonest··on Show HN: Ergohacking, Filter for ergonomic hacking keyboards
No ISO layout filtering.
BrutallyHonest··on Systems Programming in C# by Joe Duffy
In this JavaScript world nothing is too mad.
BrutallyHonest··on The Anthropodermic Book Project analyzes books rumored to be bound in human skin
Worrying anti-recycling rhetoric.
BrutallyHonest··on NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms
Why would NASA somehow be invincible to hype?
BrutallyHonest··on ORM is an anti-pattern (2011)
ORM promotes mutable entity types.
BrutallyHonest··on Swift: The joy of sequences
That's the biggest problem with adoption of academic-style (Haskell, OCaml etc.) functional programming languages.

The proponents believe that 'shorter = more readable'.

And if they would try to make it more readable it would start looking like Scala and C# (hence their popularity).