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+1. There was that push for the Web Platform site[1], the fancy flashy unified source for web documentation, but I haven't gone back there since day 1... MDN has more content, more contributors, more love.

[1] http://www.webplatform.org/

That's very fair. I look forward to it! I enjoy your reviews so far, the trend of legitimately useful sitebuilders is interesting. I yearn for a return of the geocities days, when everyone was pumping out lame websites instead of social network profiles.

Agreed, especially about integration. Many web apps expose their functionality with RESTful JSON APIs or similar. It seems to me that integrating data & functionality from across web apps is far more common than in the desktop setting. I've never built a desktop app, but just from a users perspective most of my desktop apps are isolated pieces of functionality while web apps are entangled in the greater web community.

My background is mostly web app development, and when I started I was using open technologies such as PHP and NodeJS. This summer I'm doing some work in Visual Studio with a C# .NET MVC 4000 web app. Visual Studio is a slick interface _mostly_ with some great convenience _usually_ but overall it feels suffocating compared to slapping together random tangles of open web technologies. I like the messy open standards...

How do you feel about Webflow? I haven't used it personally but from what I've seen (watching over shoulders) it is more technical than most builders but very solid. The interface actually reminds me of Weebly, like expert-mode Weebly.

This is one of my favorite aspects of JS. It won't win many prizes for its language design, but the community of people and the proliferation of projects & libraries is worth a little struggle.

One part I didn't like is towards the beginning the author says: "Nobody knows why we don’t observe these kinds of strange superpositions in the macroscopic world. For some reason, quantum mechanics just doesn’t work on that scale. And therein lies the mystery, one of the greatest in science."

But I thought the reason we dont see macroscopic events exhibiting quantum superposition behavior was because of quanutm decoherence? It's just so hard to get a macroscopic situation that hasnt already been observed and collapsed.

But then the author kinda hints at this point later when he mentions: "Physicists have become increasingly skilled at creating conditions in which ever larger objects demonstrate quantum behaviour."

Am I missing something, or is he blowing the problem (and the impact of Bolotin's computational limit theory) way out of proportion?

Oo neat I didn't know this was an option for FF

Chrome uses a separate render process for each tab[1], so when one crashes it doesn't KO the whole browser. However this also means Chrome has a larger memory footprint, since each tab is taking up the resources of a little browser. Firefox doesn't do this, and so it keeps a smaller memory footprint than Chrome (oh how times change) but the downside is--as you mentioned--the whole browser freezes if one tab fails.

[1] http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-...

You're right. In my case, I only use HN on mobile as a time-killer, cruising through interesting articles and emailing myself the ones that catch my interest. I don't get down and dirty until I'm on a desktop.

These are fun JS "gotchas" but this article should be rebranded as such. Edge-case trivia are not useful interview questions for finding a solid developer.

Another mobile alternative with a slick design (I use the wrapped-up iOS version available in the app store) http://hn.premii.com/

Stopped complaining when laypersons misuse it, sure. But can't we keep the real meaning within our own nomenclature? When I go to a hackathon I expect to be building something.

According to the Swift language guide Strings, Arrays, and Dictionaries are all copied on assignment to a variable. So wouldn't the author's primary assumption (that let a and var b refer to the same array) be false? And this whole issue is null?

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documenta...

Assignment and Copy Behavior for Strings, Arrays, and Dictionaries

Swift’s String, Array, and Dictionary types are implemented as structures. This means that strings, arrays, and dictionaries are copied when they are assigned to a new constant or variable, or when they are passed to a function or method.

This behavior is different from NSString, NSArray, and NSDictionary in Foundation, which are implemented as classes, not structures. NSString, NSArray, and NSDictionary instances are always assigned and passed around as a reference to an existing instance, rather than as a copy.

NOTE The description above refers to the “copying” of strings, arrays, and dictionaries. The behavior you see in your code will always be as if a copy took place. However, Swift only performs an actual copy behind the scenes when it is absolutely necessary to do so. Swift manages all value copying to ensure optimal performance, and you should not avoid assignment to try to preempt this optimization.

Is a plain for loop with a counter significantly faster than a forEach? With Object.keys I've been enjoying the simplicity of statements like

  Object.keys(obj).forEach(function (key) {
    console.log(obj[key]);
  }); 

but does that hamstring my performance?

I was under the impression this is true of all browsers, don't all client-side languages like Dart or TypeScript compile to JS before they can be run?

Still no infinity symbol? Much sadness :'(

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/1647

Ah yeah I agree with that, I love the product but the communication has been... obtuse.

I was really happy to see that post from Kari the new PR person, but no more word after that... http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15477&s...

TBH I just want window background transparency and I'll be snug as a bug, all other updates are meaningless

Scuse my ignorance, which JS monopoly? What is Mozilla doing?

I love mdn for my js reference needs, something to do with that?

Just curious, why are you unhappy with the way ST3 has played out?

>I eventually hope to create a tactile-spatial programming language with it.

Do you mean that figuratively or literally? I can't tell if you're working towards some super OOP magic or good support for like 3D vectors and events.

However you mean, I like the sound. Looking forward to seeing what else shakes out!

EDIT: I am now noticing your myojs stub and thinking that you mean "tactile-spatial" quite literally.

I also have found Font Awesome to be an easy and comprehensive solution (mmmm that huge icon selection, dang!). I honestly don't understand, why hasn't FA been folded into Bootstrap? Is it some licensing thing?

They've acknowledged broken hovers as a bug, good ones are slated to return in 3.0.1 https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/9879

The subtle color enhancements are nice (nothing like lowering contrast to make things look classier) but the button hovers appear broken.. that was an important bit of sparkle in twbs2 I hope 'twas just an oversight.

> No one forced them to go to college, especially not one that leaves them $40k in debt.

Have you looked at college tuition recently? In-state school will bring you $40k of debt. Private school is more like $160k. It's not a matter of students choosing expensive college over cheap college. They're all expensive.

Take a look at http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-table...

For 2012-13 the average tuition for public in-state education is $8,655. Then add school fees and student housing & food and you can get to $10-15k per year.

Kids aren't out there shopping for luxury cars, they're buying whatever gets them on the road. And it can still bring crippling debt.

And the society reflects the corporatocracy. Our culture and way of life have been deeply shaped by marketing. Producers producing too much are finding ways to make more consumers. So we're stuck in this endless cycle of consumerism that's _just_ comfortable enough we don't complain. Government does a lot, but fundamentally it's becoming a Punch & Judy show between Democrat and Republican extremes while the groups with money divide and conquer global resources.

Oh wait, shhh settle down and pass me that KFC bucket, my favorite TV show is about to start.

Funny to think about. Like in the 80s/90s when digital graphic design got big and everything was stuffed full of heavy textures and raucous splashes of colors. Then we got a grip and started scaling back to minimal. Same thing happening with web design?

Probably indicative of a larger trend too, as the web continues to intrude into all walks of life, we'll see a scaling back on all sorts of levels. Things like the Slow Web movement emerging (whatever happened to them?)