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jrvidal··on A Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter
On the other hand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino

jrvidal··on A Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter
FWIW, this approach is popular because it has worked pretty well in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino

jrvidal··on Ask HN: Can I get in trouble for crawling using the Googlebot user agent?
> On the other hand Google could possibly sue you for using the user-agent "Googlebot".

Genuinely curious: on what basis? Can you trademark (or similar) a user-agent?

jrvidal··on A cartoon intro to WebAssembly
Maybe the most interesting bit (in part 6/6): Browser Preview is over, they can start shipping it!

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/2017...

jrvidal··on Node v7.5.0 Released
Strictly speaking, tail call optimization is an ES6 feature. I had the impression that its implementation in V8 is on hold, so it might be a while.
jrvidal··on Async/await support in Firefox
Well, I was asking in general about all those new features that are in consideration: cancelation tokens, try...else, even the await.cancelToken meta-property [1]. It feels like a lot of baked-in syntactic support for a very specific pattern =/

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-cancelable-promises/blob/ma...

jrvidal··on Async/await support in Firefox
I am a JS programmer and I have mixed feelings about this. I am not entirely sold on the stuff that comes after async/await. In particular, I am curious to know what folks here think about cancelable promises [1] and the try...else block that might be introduced. Or about async iterators [2], where you can `yield await` stuff.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-cancelable-promises

[2] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-async-iteration

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