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scooby2

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scooby2··on Apple patent application for retail card transactions on mobile devices
That's not in layman's terms - it simply repeats the patent claims verbatim with a couple of paragraphs of commentary on how significant this is.
scooby2··on Ask HN: JavaScript is cool again, but the learning resources suck...
Thanks. CoffeeScript looks interesting - quite Rubyish, although I'd be a bit worried that by going that route I'm going to end up having to learn both syntaxes (syntaxi ?-) to understand / debug the resulting JavaScript, or to make use of other JS code snippets.

Interesting blog article BTW, and part of the reason I picked JS to have a bash at.

scooby2··on Ask HN: JavaScript is cool again, but the learning resources suck...
Thank you! Those first two look very promising. I'd found the Crockford Files (!) before, and whilst they look interesting for historical reasons, much of it was lost on me at this stage.
scooby2··on Deaths per unit of energy for various sources
> 50 000 dies from a oil-related incident you would get some serious backslash

30,000 deaths a year from coal pollution in the US alone... Where's the backlash?