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I mean while we're talking about the legacy of Tribes and SA and "old internet" culture we need to shout out a certain dancing gherkin wearing a pink inventory as a hat.

(hi Nexty, it's ParadoX)

SemVer - "Note that this PR is technically a breaking change since unknown becomes a reserved type name", from https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/24439 which is the first item in the list.

There are tests - they're colocated with the source, not in a separate tests folder, e.g. https://github.com/keratin/authn-server/tree/master/services

We're currently using this as our auth layer for https://empatico.org, so it's production ready!

Post TypeScript 2.3 - per https://twitter.com/tomdale/status/851924328220381185

mobiledoc sounds like an open source implementation of some of these ideas: https://github.com/bustlelabs/mobiledoc-kit

I don't suppose said fan site was DrTwisTer?

http://www.raphkoster.com/tag/ultima-online/ has a bunch of blog posts from Raph "Designer Dragon" Koster, one of the original designers of UO. It's amazing to read about how "world like" the original game was, especially compared to the direction that EQ/WoW took the genre.

The performance of Glimmer is amazing, but lets not forget this gem: "backwards compatible with Ember 1.x apps."

Here's to a future where our apps get faster without us having to change a thing.

I think you correctly identified the second problem, an example was posted below in a comment: http://softwaresimply.blogspot.com/2014/01/emberjs-is-drivin...

Yea, it's not easy. I'm paying far, far too much for a car and insurance (can't wait to move to a city where I can ditch them) and only just got my first "real" credit card after being here for 12 months. It gets very frustrating when you're treated as a total nobody even when you have significant assets back home.

The tech community in Australia, while close knit and growing, has nothing on San Francisco (but honestly, where in the world does?). There is also the lure of other big, well known cities, particularly New York. Australians love to travel, and coming to the US is pretty expensive, so perhaps pitch it as a way of being close to north and south America?

That's why I'm here. I don't plan on returning to Melbourne until I've lived in San Francisco and New York either. It's a hell of an opportunity once you're over here.

The big cities: Melbourne and Sydney. You might get some joy from one of the other state capitals (Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Darwin, Brisbane), but your best bet would be the big two.

I'm currently in the US on an E3, and while it is true that it is rather hard to get credit/insurance/a car when you first arrive, it does get easier. The trick is to start building your credit history from day 1: get a couple of secured credit cards and keep them paid. It'll take a few months for your credit history to even show up, and over a year for it to be any good, but it will happen. Credit Karma and Credit Inform (which you get for free with a Capital One secured card) are good tools for tracking your progress.

You should definitely have a decent amount of savings when you move over though, to offset the lack of credit.

As a current resident of Vegas, "warm" might be understating summer temperatures a little :) Everything is air conditioned (and there are 24 hour air conditioning maintenance companies!) so you'll be inside most of the time.

"We use a really excellent async library"

Does anyone happen to know if this is an open source or in house library?

Interesting, I've read conflicting reports about dual intent - do you have any sources? I'd provide mine but it would require a lengthy google session to retrace my steps :)

It's worth noting that the H1B is not the only type of visa that exists for hiring developers. Australians are able to use the E3, which is like a H1B but only available to Australians. Consequently it's easier to get, as long as you have a degree/work experience.

Hi Jordan, I sent you a message on LinkedIn regarding this :)

"1. it's a flash application"

I don't think this is correct. There is a flash Websocket transport, but the rest of the app is HTML.

A link to the developers: http://www.esn.me

(A bonus, being a web app means I can check it at work!)

I was under the impression that the E3 had an attached dependent visa already: http://canberra.usembassy.gov/e3visa/dependents.html

I just moved from Melbourne, AU to Las Vegas, and its incredible. I have a running joke with friends back in Australia that you can go out for lunch in Vegas and buy a house with the change.

Having said that, I wouldn't trade my place in Melbourne for any number of houses here :)

I'm not a huge fan of CoffeeScript in general, but one big plus in its favour would be the ability to write one set of CoffeeScript that compiles to JavaScript AND ES.next. That way you could serve the regular JS to older browsers, and the newer JS to browsers that support it.

I'd phrase it as "Apple 's frame is their screen" - those native apps run in a lot of places, but they don't run everywhere.

As someone who has just moved to the US from Australia, all I can say is: about time. Back home I'm used to being able to transfer money to anyones bank account with no fees, and with the funds arriving the next day. Coming to the US has seen every check I cash "held" for days, and $25 fees for having the gall to transfer money out of my account without using a check. Paying rent takes at least a week, as the "online transfer" in internet banking is a check sent by the bank! I understand now why PayPal was such a big deal when it came out.

(Disclaimer: I bank with Bank of America, and am waiting with baited breath for BankSimple)

Not necessarily. Check out frameworks like Silex (https://github.com/fabpot/Silex) - it's very lightweight.

Its also important to note that Vegas is one of the few places in the US where sports betting is actually legal. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_gambling#United_States

In running and peer to peer betting (Betfair style) are indeed different. You can place in run (live) bets on Betfair.

Interesting anecdote, apparently Betfair had one of the busiest Oracle installs on the planet. They were (are?) creating some pretty neat infrastructure to get away from it: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/matt-youill-betfair-flywh...

American sports wagering - Vegas in particular - has been pretty behind the times until recently. Vegas betting has been limited, partly due to software, partly due to it being "the way", to pretty basic betting. Handicap, head to head, totals, basic propositions.

In run betting is huge in Asia, especially on football (soccer). As the article mentions, sports betting has never been a focus of the casinos. New kinds of betting will hopefully change that.

The development version of Celery also supports Redis as a queue: http://ask.github.com/celery/tutorials/otherqueues.html