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gaspard··on Cerebral – Declarative state and side effects for popular JavaScript frameworks
Using Cerebral in a complex React + TypeScript app and really enjoying the workflow. This is a great tool to work with and a great community as well :-)
gaspard··on Show HN: A coding style proposal for JavaScript ES6
It is true. It only improves this aspect when adding elements to the end of objects.

But the real advantage I felt was punctuation confusion reduction when having mixed object definitions and callbacks.

gaspard··on Show HN: A coding style proposal for JavaScript ES6
I have been using this format with deeply nested objects and found readability to be improved. How does it kill readability ? Could you provide an example ?
gaspard··on The Failed Experiment of Software Patents
Is he really named "Cockburn" ? geez... Maybe this is why he is out of his mind: it hurts.
gaspard··on Zena 1.0 "Amen Break" release (5 years making a Rails CMS)
Thanks for the pointer: that was a leftover from the 0.x templates.
gaspard··on Zena 1.0 "Amen Break" release (5 years making a Rails CMS)
It's been a long way to make this release... Please take some time to try this gem out:

    gem install zena
    zena foobar
    cd foobar && zena init
gaspard··on Reverse engineering a Wii game script interpreter, part 1
Very impressive skills at work...
gaspard··on Ask HN: Help me revamp Zena UI (Open source Rails CMS)
Hi Schraeds,

Email sent...

G.

gaspard··on Ask HN: Help me revamp Zena UI (Open source Rails CMS)
Hi Rickdale,

I sent you an email, is it lost ?

G.

gaspard··on Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity
I don't believe reprocessing means "no waste" but anyway, that's just half of the problem: what will we do in 50 years ?

And how do you reprocess the lives of the 200'000 people who had to leave after the nuclear accident in Tchernobyl alone ? Tell the fishermen by Fukushima to go reprocess their lives because some over-confident engineers thought they mastered what they were doing.

Nuclear power is just like the "green revolution": pure megalomania by people too afraid to consider alternatives like... a less power greedy way of living.

gaspard··on Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity
You guys keep amazing me. Do you forget that nuclear plants produce tons of waste that has to be kept far away from any life form for thousands of years ? Do you know any written language or sign or whatever that is 10'000 years old and which human people can understand and use cautiously ?

Nuclear waste is going to be the worst legacy we give to our children and grandchildren. They will hate us for this.

And, even if the waste is going to give trouble (and to cost) people in the future, these same people handling our radioactive waste won't have any fuel left:

Toxic waste is forever, fuel is for 50 years. Doesn't that look dumb to you ?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Fuel_composit...

gaspard··on The Next Big Language
The NBL is not going to be Javascript but Lua. It's got some of the same architectural strengths as Javascript (functions are first class citizens, closures, good scoping), it's very fast (LuaJIT), integrates well in any environment and is highly customizable. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1022560/subtle-difference... for some differences....
gaspard··on Show HN: EDW, quantitative analytics, machine learning.
Applying these engineering forces to build a huge "casino winning" software is a waste. What happens if it works ? We have the over-super-rich who can build and maintain such machines that get richer and the rest of us with debts and taxes. I hope such experiments accelerate towards a Tobin tax: fast speculative machines (nanotrading) will just die away and we will get back to "investment" based trading not casino.
gaspard··on Qt Quick, create Qt apps with Javascript
You need the QML runtime (http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qmlruntime.html) which you can embed in any Qt C++ app or deploy on mobile devices. The idea is that you code the app in C++ and code the user experience with this language, writing bindings to your models on the way.
gaspard··on Qt Quick, create Qt apps with Javascript
Install Qt 4.7, download Qt Creator 2.1 (http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-qtcreator-prerelease/) and follow the tutorial (http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtcreator-2.1-snapshot/creator-qml-a...), it's really a great tool.