thomasfoster96

Fetch is a Web API, not an ECMAScript language feature, so TC39 doesn’t have much to do with it. They do do Promises though and Cancellation is a Stage 1 proposal [0], so it’s more than a year away from standardization at best.

WHATWG handles Fetch and their spec[1] was updated seven days ago.

[0] https://github.com/tc39/proposals/blob/master/README.md [1] https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org

Isn’t the bigger point that the modern world is in a situation to mitigate climate change, but isn’t really trying enough, thus risking the same fate as the Roman Empire?

If you’re going bush walking, you’d usually take a snake bite bandage. If you’re otherwise healthy and have other people with you, you’ve got a few hours to get yourself to a hospital or ambulance.

That’s probably because it’s fairly widely known (in Australia) that if you’re bitten by a red-back or funnel-web spider that you seek medical attention, as you would for a venomous snake. A quickly treated bite is almost never fatal.

The app helps people make the decision as to whether its a harmless spider or something that requires urgent medical attention.

Well, you can already commit an AST if you really want to: just serialise the ESTree[0] to JSON and commit that.

But committing unreadable JSON files to version control rather defeats most of the features of version control.

[0] https://github.com/estree/estree

I agree with that assessment. Xi is certainly accelerating the process.

> it's not a dictatorship.

The explanation given in first year political science was that China is a very rare example of a successful party-based dictatorship, as opposed to a dictatorship based on an individual or family.

I don’t drive so I can’t say I’ve ever used Waze, but I did recently switch from Google Maps to Apple Maps. I’d say that the author’s findings about both apps largely mirrors my own experience using them for public transport and walking directions.

Apple Maps generally always gives fairly conservative but accurate estimations of walking times, while Google Maps is all over the place. I’ve missed perhaps half a dozen buses while using Google Maps because of unrealistic walking times, but none while using Apple Maps. On the other hand, Google Maps has also sometimes overestimated walking times by ~20 minutes.

As for using public transport, Apple Maps is just more useful. It’s easier to find stations, easier to find out about disruptions and gives better walking directions around stations. Google Maps regularly gets trains and buses mixed up, makes it a pain to find information about disruptions, and in a city with multiple modes of transport (i.e. Melbourne AU with trains, trams and buses) a cluster of train/bus/tram stations on a map just gets rendered as an unreadable mess.

Google’s UI is also a bit of a pain. Several friends (both iOS and Android users) have complained that Google Maps is too fiddly to use on the go. I’d agree, and add that Apple Maps is a lot easier to use on a crowded train or while walking.

That said, for a long time I persistently had problems with Apple Maps being slower to load actual maps. I suppose I’d better start collecting my own usage data and write a blog post.

I find it odd that someone who was writing a paragraph about sexism in tech (or any industry) wouldn’t be aware of the negative connotation - but your explanation could be right.

Given the author appears to be female, I suspect the irony is entirely on purpose.

The syntactic complexity of line 18 isn’t really the issue (in fact, it shouldn’t really require a deep understanding of JS syntax), it’s the meaningless single-letter variable names.

Huh? Why would you expect your accent to be more American if you grew up in a Commonwealth county?

> What good is a computer that you can’t type on. One spec of dust or one crumb and your keyboard is done. My space bar sometimes inserts two spaces and sometimes inserts spaces between letters.

Is there a laptop where this isn’t a problem?

Well if you’re calculating “the average American”, you have to include drug-addicted Americans.

You find a rather common spelling mistake (which has been fixed) “credibility-undercutting” and “cringeworthy”? It seems like you are holding blog posts that have made it to the first page of Hacker News to a ridiculously high standard.

You’re probably right in general re: negative gearing on rents (I’ve edited my comment).

Variations of this headline have been running for years now, so I don’t really think this one is going to be any more accurate regarding timing than any of the other predictions. There seems to be an un-ending political will-power (from both sides of politics and at both the state and federal levels) to continue housing policies that predate Australia’s last recession, and to offer only stop-gap measures to get young people back into the housing market or to maintain prices.

I live in a rental, which is being rented out below what the market rate would be, thanks to an extent to negative gearing. There are at least half a dozen building sites in my street, which is about 20km from the centre of Melbourne. The median house price has soared this year to well over AU$1m (units are more than half that). We get at least a dozen flyers each week, written in both Chinese and English, advertising that there are buyers in the area with budgets up to AU$2m or that houses have sold for more than AU$1m.

When the bubble does burst, there’s no doubt that it will be disastrous in parts of Melbourne and Sydney. It’s unclear whether there is the capacity to make up for a glut in new housing projects with public infrastructure projects. That’s not to mention the enormous hit that huge numbers of home owners will take when their homes drop in value.

No doubt the post-mortem will be quite damning for many policy makers.

Edit: ‘fraction’ was inaccurate, and it’s academic as to the extent negative gearing affects rents.

> Tunnels are more important than Uber or self driving cars

> “Without tunnels we’ll be in traffic hell forever” -Elon Musk

Public transport solves all the problems tunnels solve as well. Tunnels don’t change the fact that cars (self-driving or not) are still an incredibly inefficient use of space when they’re all going in the same direction to the same place.

Well in most federations, until there’s a constitutional change.

A sign of a healthy capitalist society for some maybe, but not a healthy society in general.

> >Except a) the federal government actually doesn’t really interfere much with governance at all

>You’re not serious are you.

The OP was certainly underestimating the influence the US federal government (and federal governments around the world) have on their constituent states, but certainly in the USA, Canada, Australia, etc., subnational and local governments have considerable power which they consistently fail to use in an innovative way. Most subnational entities simply replicate the institutions of their national or sibling polities.

It would be possible to do, but it hasn’t been proposed as an ECMAScript feature nor do I know of any plugins that implement it, so you’d have to write the plugin yourself.

> They're more centrist than 'liberal' despite the name.

Most liberal parties around the world are more or less centrist. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

Wait, it isn’t pronounced ‘cog’?

That’s true.

> "a very un-intuitive interpretation of the question" is often part of the game on QI.

Hence my clarification that this was despite it being the nature of the show.

The question about “who was the first president of the United States” really annoys me, because the definition of ‘president' was so poorly explained on the show yet the (incorrect) answer has probably now become a dinner party anecdote for lots of people.

> you should take QI and their other show more as a bunch of geeks talking about fun stuff and frequently getting caught up in juggling technicalities and stuff they don't necessarily know all that much about.

Which I do, but I’m also aware that it presents itself as being a factual quiz and so I do think there should be some level of fact-checking (or clarification). Random QI Elves writing complex questions on topics they know very little about without consulting experts doesn’t make good TV.

> It's entertainment, after all, not documentaries.

I’m aware it’s for entertainment, but lots of people take everything that’s said on QI at face value and don’t try to find things out for themselves, which is sad.

> I'm a committed capitalist AND green and they is no political party aligned to that.

The Greens have an unofficial right faction (pro-capitalism, pro-green). Most of the recent Greens internal tension has been between this faction (which has a lot of ex-Liberal environmentalists and ex-Democrats) and the Left Renewal faction (many of whom are openly anti-capitalist). The pro-capitalism faction is certainly very strong and seems to control the party leadership at the moment.

Do you have any links to the party?

I’ve never really got the impression that Sustainable Australia (or any of its previous incarnations) was really anything more than an anti-population growth single issue party.

They still run Senate candidates (in Victoria at least) but as independents because they lost party status. Not sure if they can be resurrected though - I think their good people all went to Labor and the Greens.

QI did end up having quite a lot of rather dubious facts in the end (or at the very least, a lot of the answers given as correct on the show required a very unintuitive interpretation of the question, despite the nature of the show).

But given that this seems to have continued well after Fry left the show, I can only assume it’s the researchers on the show making the errors, not Fry himself.