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There is a big difference between blogs, corporate blogs, and blog advertising. The author is conflating the three and drawing a bogus conclusion.

Yep, it has a distinctly 'mineral vein' appearance to it.

My problem is with the premise of your argument; that being expressive and flexible are more desirable than other traits, and that having those traits make it somehow more applicable to 'real world' applications, whatever those are.

I've coded in Ruby. I've also coded in C, C++, C#, VB.Net, VB 1 through 6, JS, Java Smalltalk, Pascal, MASM, and more. Many on production systems or consumer software that was distributed to millions of people. Each language has its strengths and weaknesses.

There are many situations where Ruby is a great choice. Unfortunately it also gets used in situations where maybe it wasn't the best choice.

No language is the be-all end-all. You're always going to want to choose the 'least bad' option for any project and there are many factors to weigh and not all of them are technical. Personally I will probably never choose to start a new project in, or build a team around, Ruby again.

Nice example of RoR user blinders.

You can't charge what the water 'cost', it was thousands of years of filtering into the underground aquifers. And it is too late, the water has been used. Same problem with any non- or slow replenishing natural resource that we've been boosting off of at accelerated rates. When they run out dependent systems have the potential for rapid failure, much more rapid than we are likely to come up with solutions for, and people will die. Supply and demand work, but people will die in the process.

http://codepen.io/ has evolved to something like that. Live samples, likes and looks, and a code viewer.

They didn't allocate it, you did. Most people are not on large screens. First they were uncommon, then just as wide screens became normal, so did small screen handheld devices, like what I'm on right now lying in bed sunday morning.

My three daughters go to doyogako (Saturday Japanese language school) which follows the standard curriculum which is why I knew. I haven't seen them use the kuku though. I'm actually working with the youngest on flashcards right now.

I've always thought it very valuable that they do math both there and at their regular US school in the hope that it will mean they aren't dramatically slowed down when math appears in a conversation like second language learners are. They certainly are crazy fluent in both languages otherwise compared to any second language learner, but I recently discovered my oldest tends to think of multiplication products in Japanese first even when in an English context. The brain is tricky :-)

This is cool but not a part of any standard curriculum in Japan despite the title.

We did the same sort of thing in the pkzip source code 20 years ago. There were a number of pointless routines in the program that would be clear evidence of code theft.

These days I suppose an optimizing compiler would be smart enough to strip away any truly dead ends.

This is a pretty thin 'comparison' with dedicated servers being given only a cursory mention and no analysis and VPS not covered at all.

Was the first thing to come to my mind as well. Used it every day in the mid to late 80s.

Very useful though when doing the 90% of code work that isn't composing new stuff from scratch. A real gift for people doing lots of code review. As you say great support for issues would go a long way toward that.

If you into it you will find tea is popular with monks for sustaining meditation. Tea has more than caffeine, there are other useful compounds as well. Much better for focus than coffee.

If you are good at power naps (i.e. can drift off in under 10 minutes in the right conditions) you can try a tea rebound nap; make a strong cup of tea and drink it quickly just before you lay down for a snooze. You'll drift off before it hits and by the time your 20-25 minute timer finishes your brain is doubly refreshed.

I find the 'hard-reset' aspect of a nap to be essential some days, and it is completely different in nature than the 'energy' aspect. More to do with unresolved problems to solve than actual energy.

It is very lame. I take it as a sign that the people behind it would likely have mis-managed things. The failure to keep an eye on things, or find that last push that was needed, is a red flag.

Disappointing to see such FUD in today's landscape. What MS is doing is in almost every way an improvement for the vast majority of the population.

The learning curve is shockingly short to a semblance of utility because of this.

Try the demo for 10 minutes. Convinced me.

Already happened in Japan.

There is already a node.js analogue that runs on .net and hosts .net https://github.com/jacksonh/manos

Hasn't been updated in a long time. Not sure why it isn't getting any love, maybe something better came along. Seems to me it should be more performant on equal hardware.

Cell towers are on backup power in a power outage.

MapQuest. Free.

Yea I kind of which now I had kept the 98. It was working quite well by the time I gave it up, but there were safety related upgrades on the new build that caused me to switch.

Having to target JavaScript. You then have issues with debugging, overly convoluted build processes etc.

Have not tried yet, but hearing good things; http://www.californiaheadphones.com/laredo.html

Lots of interesting podcasts (techie and also story and news oriented) + player + walk or run in sun = winning.

So dont go out at noon, but sunscreen turns out to be a bad strategy. Some (most) may be more carcinogenic than the sun they block.

Oddly ms already has/had some sort of 'compiler'. Memory is fuzzy on it, internal use and only used to build one thing, libs for messenger in browser I think.

The author also completely ignores the possibility of a double-sided phone. They've already shown you can have glass on both sides. Now just put another screen under one.

;-)

My first thought when I saw it; I used to have a receiver with a remote of those dimensions. Of course now I have one with a touchscreen remote...