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It’s the NY Times. How is this a surprise?

A lot of the comments here imply that style can be fixed with a linter, but what about the style of things other than syntax, like choices in variable names, DRY-ing through mixins vs composition, grammatical style in code comments, etc.

Wow,nostalgia overload as I recall how I used to play Fool’s Errand on my Mac SE as a kid.

"I told him about the black swan I kept on my desk as a reminder that low probability events happen with high frequency"

Uh... wouldn't low probability events happen with low frequency? Am I missing something?

I imagine if the police actually did something about public drug use, theft, and mentally ill assailants, there would be a backlash against the perception of a fascist police state.

> under the boot of an immutable society in love with its own stagnation

China is rapidly leading in solar panel production, implementing CRISPR tech, super computers, and now building a modern Silk Road. Perhaps they are stagnating on the human rights front, but they are not stagnating in tech and economic growth.

> ES6/7 is pathetic addition which was born out of 6 years of meetings when we already had a better JavaScript called CoffeeScript. Use it if you want ship code faster and stop wasting time debating var/const/let, semi-colons, class and other arguments.

Why is coffeescript better than ES6? I've used both and I definitely prefer ES6.

Really cool project. I wonder if transportation agencies would want to use something like this for studying traffic.

Maybe Bob Dylan is too busy reading dasharez0ne

Thanks DOJ for the Kafka-esque move that will most likely deprive everyone of free educational materials. Glad to know justice was served.

I think so. Elixir runs on erlang. And according to this SO post, it does run on all cores: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7005759/erlang-on-multico...

thanks for the catch!