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Most of my changes would be unacceptable to Satyr, the maintainer of Coco. For instance, I posted an issue about creating proper list comprehensions in both CoffeeScript and Coco, and both times was shut down. That's why I decided to create my own project, and make the changes I want without being shut down all the time. I don't expect any of my changes to be merged into Coco or CoffeeScript, but if they want to then I would encourage them to do so.

I'm the creator of LiveScript (http://gkz.github.com/LiveScript/) which is on that list. Feel free to ask any questions! LiveScript has unnested callbacks, paren free chaining, function composition and piping operators, proper list comprehensions, and a lot of other improvements over CoffeeScript.

The article tries to paint the two dealers as "a couple of stoner kids", but in reality Diveroli, the creator of the business, was greatly helped by his family situation:

"Efraim Diveroli, by contrast, knew exactly what he wanted to be: an arms dealer. It was the family business. His father brokered Kevlar jackets and other weapons-related paraphernalia to local police forces, and his uncle B.K. sold Glocks, Colts and Sig Sauers to law enforcement. Kicked out of school in the ninth grade, Diveroli was sent to Los Angeles to work for his uncle. As an apprentice arms dealer, he proved to be a quick study. By the time he was 16, he was traveling the country selling weapons."

In this business, which is all about connections, Diveroli was blessed with a network of contacts through his family. Without these, it is doubtful Diveroli would ever have achieved anything close to what he did.

Bulgarian (living in Canada)

Really? I am in the Canadian Forces infantry, and if anyone ever used the term "clip" in reference to a magazine, and was actually serious, I'm pretty sure they would get beat up. May I ask what country you are affiliated with and in what branch of the military those servicemen are? It is interesting to see such a basic difference in terminology.

No, they are not interchangeable, and no, they do not mean the same thing.

Some nice illustrations I found: http://i.min.us/ie52d2.jpg http://i.min.us/icklUo.jpg

To any firearms enthusiast, hearing clip and magazine being confused is like hearing nails on a chalk board. Imagine someone at your work insisting that Java and Javascript are the same language.

By shorting the stock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_selling

Basically, the hedge funds thought the stock would go down, so they "borrowed" or "rented" the stock from someone else and immediately sold it. The idea is by the time they have to return the stock the price will have fell.

Ie, if the stock is currently worth $100, and they borrow 1 share and immediately sell it, they have $100 and owe 1 share. Later, on the date they have to return 1 share, they go and buy 1 share and give it back. If the share price then is $80 they made $20 on the transaction. If the stock went up to $120 then they lost $20.

So, they shorted the stock, because they thought it would go down, but then the amount of stock available to be bought plunged right as they had to return the stock. So, there was a huge demand for the stock right as the supply was drying up. As such, the price went very high, but they were forced to buy it anyways to due to the previous agreement (that they had to give the stock back).

I am 1991, even more solid Gen Y.

I was the last in my class to get a computer at home, around grade 6, but I am the second most tech savvy person at my school.

I remember my first experiences with a computer. It was at my elementary school, on an old black and white Apple.

How times have changed.