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bsou··on Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19
This may be due to what trees are planted in cities:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/botanical-se...

bsou··on Final Removal of Trust in WoSign and StartCom Certificates
question for the knowledgeable: I've used AWS's ACM for my certs so far, are there any big reasons why I should be using LE instead?
bsou··on Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements
I'd like to see the residuals from that model
bsou··on OMG, Java is so verbose, guys
My main gripe with Java is its lack of type inference and the resulting redundancy that pops up. Things like the following got tiresome quickly (I might be a newb missing out on a better way to do things like this)

  private final TreeMap<String, TreeMap<String, Record>> searchTree = new TreeMap<String, TreeMap<String, Record>>();
bsou··on Step-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack from scratch
Alternative stack that gets you much of the same stuff with less:

TypeScript, React, Redux, Webpack, Immutable, Ava

- TypeScript covers much of the benefit of es6/babel/eslint/flow, Ava covers chai/mocha, and webpack can cover most of what gulp provides

bsou··on The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy (2010)
there is also the possibility of talking to them about their life
bsou··on PR converts the Three.js codebase to ES2015 modules
eslint also provides static analysis for dependency resolution when using import statements instead of node require calls
bsou··on JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
yeah that works, your statement is fine
bsou··on Concurrent JavaScript – Introduction
Potentially similar discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11477314
bsou··on Why are programmers dead set against my concurrent Node.js runtime?
For that specific problem you could use the upcoming addition to JS of SIMD for data parallelism while still in single threaded JS.
bsou··on Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement
Awesomely feature packed! And thus a bit beefy at ~1MB minified, but I guess that is the tradeoff.
bsou··on Gravity Payments' Revenue and Profits Doubled After $70,000 Minimum Wage Set
it was good marketing
bsou··on The uncomfortable state of being Asian in tech
I really like the use of `latin@`
bsou··on Atom 1.0
you can if you cheat: http://coffeescript.org/#try:%0Aa%20%3D%201%0Ax%20%3D%20-%3E...

(I jumped ship to babel though)

bsou··on Show HN: Usable RosettaCode: Code snippets for 2 languages side-by-side
love the idea, though i'm getting 404ed when I try to compare haskell and coffeescript (osx / opera 26) http://rosetta.alhur.es/compare/Coffeescript/Haskell/#
bsou··on The graph is a lie
dishonesty is a great way to sell a business