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I think this cannot be trully measured without top-secret data from other nations as well, not likely to be shared with the US. E.g. what if the US war with China was averted just by timely preparation? No-one knows for sure except some Chinese in power positions. Something in relation to USSR? some of people taking the decisions at the time are already dead taking some facts with them, thus impossible to evaluate

Agree about freshman, just wanted to add, that this freshman has managed to do other not so nice things recently, thus increasing cumulative damage to the reputation well beyond sum of each part. I assume that at some point powerusers will start to migrate to different services, when/if competitive enough offer comes

ok, but what took so long for fedora? (in other comment I read about ubuntu waiting just almost 5 years) why?

Ok, so I'll state the obvious - it took almost 6 years from release of python 3.0.0 (2008-12-03)[1] till fedora adopting it. And I thought that cheap PHP hosts takes long time to upgrade PHP version.

Can someone with knowledge of python ecosystem explain what took a major distro so long, given that you could run different versions of python in parallel (or couldn't you?) for some of big pro software that needs the old version? [1] - http://python.org/download/releases/3.0/

why? compilers for other languages has compile time switches for various checks and/or optimizations, there it is assumed normal. Javascript's "use strict" is just a hack for lack such option. This has some benefits, i.e. you take some codebase that must compile with noImplicitAny and want to add some features, you start with less strict typing (implicit any allowed), when finished you compile with different flag. Because ide (most people use) is recompiling the code all the time there is no reason to clutter this when prototyping. If you don't like this workflow, just use the flag from step 1.

well to me - if I am CC'ed in conversation it means as FYI or "I'd like to hear your opinion", "I hope you don't mind" or similar, i.e. I am on CC just to stay informed, not to actively be on conversation, also sometimes informs the receiver that this is known to someone else. Other case when 2+ parties with several participants in each are agreeing on something/negotiating it resembles semantic conversation much better you send email with TO set to other parties (you say them this) and CC your colleagues (they hear this and stay in conversation). Btw, and I don't like when people don't include all recieptients when replying, Gmail somehow promotes this

I trained a bit speed reading when I was in higschool from some book that was translated from Russian (sorry, no idea what was the book) the main idea there was to: 1) not saying words with inner voice 2) not reading letter by letter (seeing whole word at once) 3) reading by connected words not only word by word 4) there was eye training exercise, the idea was that you had to train vision a bit to be able to read more text with less eye movement, i.e. to read word by word you have to be able to see whole word at once (so your brain recognizes word with 1 lookup, not letter-by-letter lookup) whether this helped - I don’t now but that spreeder says that I can read more than 1500 wpm on casual texts (when there is a lot of material I want to realy comprehend, ofcourse it is slower even by factor of 3)

I have nokia x1-01 for family & friends only number and as a phone that I use when I want to be reachable but not to worry about loosing the smartphone, with 20-40 min talk time a day it lasts for more than a week on single charge, thus 4weeks standby seems credible to me

Since when UI ( =User Interface) is only visual? To me it seems as UI got too narrow understanding of just visual in the wild (i.e. general population) and then people who really understand what they are doing decided to rebrand themselves as too many people saying they are related to UI where just visual design related...

I'm just starting with some hobby project (as usual nothing special to show yet) and picked up typescript as it supports me when I am forgetful (as the project time is scattered in small bits) or just plain lazy. I see this as big win for big projects where no-one (or at least no-one) can see all the details in the project, it saves a lot of jumping around in codebase

Compose is even worse... What I especially hate about it is that I expext no clutter around when composing new message, they just screwed up this for me totally. (Ok, I bet they can make it worse)

some of previous cases was just making fuss out of nothing, however this is a real problem here. As HN is usually better at criticising, I don't think there is much to add...

now I have a test for the "too abstract" problem. Also - bonus points to the author for pointing out at the end that general practice != abolute truth

I am not very good at unix command line, but maybe it could be done like this: curl http://get.docker.io > /tmp/docker-install && sh /tmp/docker-install && rm /tmp/docker-install that gives quick and easy way to inspect by executing only first command and then inspecting the source, i.e., 1) copy just first part curl http://get.docker.io > /tmp/docker-install 2) then inspect, e.g. cat /tmp/docker-install 3) run the install sh /tmp/docker-install && rm /tmp/docker-install or, if not reviewing run whole at once

p.s. I know, that there should not be direct copy-paste from browser to console and this method leaves a file in /tmp on installation failure

I don't, but for install script one can look at least from where the stuff will come. if the download link was using ssl...

To me it seems that the HTML5 is a bit feature-creep.The term "HTML5" in layman's eyes is expanded by some new tech every 4-8 months, isn't it?

I can see usig this to get perfectly replicable, easy to upgrade/rollback and movable works environment - for both local and remote use. I.e., use locally on powerfull machine or rdp to closest powerful machine you can access from slow device. Or have several workspaces similar to virtual desktops for multiple projects...

The funny thing is that the article is published on a blog where only JS is Google Analytics (50% of the download)... Yes, we need JS everywhere!