igl

Yeah i can see that it is a lot of work. I could be reduced to influential companies that are listed in the stockmarket or are somehow else classified as influential. Food-watch for apps and devices... I am just winging it now. Time to do some googling.

I wish there was a website illustrating the political compass of companies. Showing their affiliate network, money flows, endorsements/statements, tax-haven parent companies and ivory collections of elephant hunting CEOs. Call me reactionary.

I just donated $15. If there is nothing to stop large companies completely ignoring the GPL then what good is it?

Lag, NSA, Games. Enough said?

Maybe I give Brackets another go since its been a while...

However what I really want: AST driven auto-complete VS-style for coffee/coco/livescript. This will probably not happen in an editor written in JS... at least it will not be that pleasant.

I would want to fight over the principle. And what the heck are our fundamental values? Snowden, guantanamo, gladio. Do you really think we are so much better? Instead of having this polarizing US VS THEM attitude you should travel more. You will see people are people everywhere and we all strive for life, liberty, peace and happiness.

How about harmonization instead of confrontation (Remember when that ever had a positive outcome?). How about global trade mechanics with a global currency not controlled by privately held banks and ever-corrupt governments of single nations.

This will come into effect silently without any public discussion about it. I can only speak about Germany where the news and mainstream-intellectual talkshows are still dominated by Muslim vs West discussions and reports about Anti-Muslim demonstration that a few (2000) whackjobs are attending.

The Demonstration against TTIP with roughly 50.000 attendees in Berlin a few weeks ago received no news, no articles and did not spark discussions other than satirical/comedy shows making fun about it. I start to believe they aim to kill the seriousness of the outrage.

Why would you eat that instead of vegys? I think food scarcity is not real.

wat? How can you even compare the "problems" of building commercial software to the problems of consumerism in capitalism?

The standards applied here are whack in the scope of what js and mongo are used for.

Also: You only get better by reiterating.

I really really really like Knex. While Mongo claims to be "easy" and "js-native", It's far easier doing complicated queries with Knex on Postgres than on Mongo with the official client.

I work on a mongo project and doing aggregate queries is really ugly and painful. Everyone praising mongo probably never made "advanced" queries like that or dismissed SQL as shitty and unsecure without ever using it.

The problem is that the Author is assuming that 90% of software we write to make a living is set into stone and suppose to run forever. Almost everything we do is disposable and replaced within the same decade.

So he does not like Javascript and Nosql. Is it hard to find a JavaEE job? I think not.

I do not understand this article. You can't load up any browser with add-ons and bookmarks for a few months and then complain about it being slower than a fresh install of another one.

I hardly use any add-ons other than ad-block and a handful of selected ones and do not have the problems described. Quite the opposite actually! I do have the occasional freezes and crashes with ff using webgl, html5 video and even firebug (with less than 10 tabs open).

There are forks of chromium like iron improving the situation... If people would use them and contribute.

Refreshing the page worked for me.

He probably meant to put stuff into the global scope is garbage. As in a 'bad idea', not GC.

If you use all features of scala you get at least 16mb pure js boilerplate. Even with dead code elimination you cant get below 100kb with 10 lines of scala. Im not sure if i would call that manageable. Your app might explode into megabytes at one point.

With es6 around the corner and the possibilities those features will provide, i would still bet on pure js. Those precompilers will benefit a great deal too. Symbols and Proxies alone will remove a lot of the hoops they have to go through now.

It took less than a few hours to find the motivation and the perpetrators. There were no suspects to begin with. The next day they were announced dead and this will be used as a reason to send more NATO troops east.

Simple truth. Very fast and very convenient for the NATO isn't it?

Funny, this tunnel is in the 100-200 million euro range. Could have a positive social impact. Yet they make compromises and ruin it's value. Raising it 3,5m into the air to save some money? Can it really be called underground then?

The elbphilharmonie is at 800 million now. It will mostly make money for private hands (public private partnership) and will leave hamburg in dept for decades. Welcome to a CDU town.

I am currently crafting together a new desktop, seeing this makes me feel really silly.

Optional parameters have ? as postfix too. Resulting code like: function foo(x?:?string):?string { return x; }

I would much rather like a null type, or even better: have null be declared as void too.

The maybe types `?string` really annoy me.

I will rather wait until TypeScript pleases me with union types and proper es6 alignment.

I asked myself the same question, seeking for ressources on the web and help on irc and i concluded that unfortunately the f# community is mainly a windows community. Mono is quite a niche.

I am mostly looking forward to Proxies and Tail calls, both cannot be implemented with traceur :/

First we have to wait for complete implementations.

Then wait for v8 performance: http://jsperf.com/performance-frozen-object ES5 is doing good...

And at last: Wait for < IE-11 to die.

It remains to be seen if io.js will boosts ES Next for the server. Since bound to v8 i don't expect much.

Other implementations like the ahead of time compiler echojs become interesting. I am also curious how Typescript will look at v2.0.

I am ready, however I still don't use arrow functions... Which were first heard of in 2010? 2011?

It still feels like so far away.

Show me one task in your Gruntfile that is complex. grunt-shell also just wraps child_process.spawn which is already trivial.

I am very comfortable with make, my coworkers however are not. Every preprocessor comes with a command line interface, easily accessible and understood. The only useful feature of these build tools is hot reloading. `npm gaze` even provides a somewhat working fs.watch interface which works good across platforms.

I am not sure if that justifies 70mb of additional dependencies and the "we can solve that with a grunt plugin" mentality devs get. Our Gruntfile is 440 lines long :/

In short: this is a reference to a functions context. If no context is present it points to the global context or if encapsulated to undefined.

context.func() //this == context

func() // this == global

A book on the subject was recently released by a german journalist. It is on the bestseller list and is ignored by media outlets altogether. Translated versions are in the works.

http://www.gekaufte-journalisten.de/ (german)

https://ersjdamoo.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/bought-journalism... (english blog article about it)

http://theagendadaily.com/gekaufte-journalisten-german-book-... (english news article)

If the energy put into the creation of mobile apps nobody needs was spend elsewhere, we would live in Utopia already.

The significant performance difference is usually only noticeable at very large objects/arrays.

A good read on the subject of performance and native method replacements:

https://github.com/codemix/fast.js/tree/master#how