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towelguy··on Ask HN: Why use Docker and what are the business cases for using it?
I love docker-compose, it is to services what npm is to packages.

That said, I'm only using it in development. For production there's so many options I don't even know where to begin: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18287169/3557327

towelguy··on Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
AI+VR

Edit: Just remembered this is already happening http://travel.cnn.com/tokyo/none/love-plus-scourge-takes-ano...

towelguy··on A Go “clone” of the great and famous Requests library
I'd say goquests to avoid the gore quests issue, just like coroutines => goroutines
towelguy··on Rust's regex-dna benchmark results
Wait, the second fastest is the Javascript one?
towelguy··on Atom 1.0
We speak English, but our laptops come with localized keyboards.
towelguy··on How American Fans Pirated Japanese Cartoons into Careers
One problem with commercial releases is overlocalization. Watchers too have background knowledge (Japan mythology or food for example) and sometimes there's a dissonance in what you hear and what they mean. Pokemon calling rice balls donuts[0] comes to mind.

[0] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Rice_ball

towelguy··on How American Fans Pirated Japanese Cartoons into Careers
Satoshi Kon is one of my favorite anime directors. I wonder if his last work, Dreaming Machine, will ever see the light of day.
towelguy··on Implement arrow functions in v8
Yeah like the others said it binds this to the scope where it was defined. So something like this works as one would expect:

    setTimeout(() => this.someMethod(), 1000);
towelguy··on Implement arrow functions in v8
They are a compact way to write anonymous functions in Javascript, so instead of

    var square = function (a) { return a * a;}
You can write:

    var square = a => a * a;
towelguy··on Solving the Traveling Tesla Salesman Problem with Python and Concorde
Also, do Teslas have enough autonomy to travel each of those distances?
towelguy··on ES6 in Depth – Symbols

    s1 = Symbol("cat");
    s2 = Symbol.for("cat");
    s3 = Symbol.for("cat");
    s1 == s2; // false
    s2 == s3; // true
You can still have Symbols outside the registry.
towelguy··on Enaml: A declarative UI library with a Cassowary layout system for Python
Looks like a mix of Python and Yml just like how QML is a mix of Javascript and Yml
towelguy··on How MIT Students Won $8M in the Massachusetts Lottery (2012)
I disapprove of your lottery algorithms, but I will defend to the death your right to sell them to me.
towelguy··on NSA whistleblower warns of surveillance state
Did you tell anybody about it?
towelguy··on Lost Posture: Why Indigenous Cultures Don't Have Back Pain
Maybe they don't have the luxury to complain that much.
towelguy··on Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React
Maybe assign a color to each participant and make the lines each draw have a slight shine of their color? or color it on mouseover.
towelguy··on Japanese Change Trays
Isn't it common in Restaurants to leave the money in a tray?

Something much more weird I think is the money envelopes. I once took classes by a Japanese lady who, the day before we would pay for the next month, gave us these envelopes the size of a bill and asked us to bring the money in them, said that Japanese never hand money directly, always in envelopes. The next day she took the envelopes and didn't even open them to count the money.

towelguy··on The Agency: An army of well-paid “trolls” in St. Petersburg
The Ministry of Truth in the making.
towelguy··on GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
I guess the projects that can't be on github won't mind the GUI challenges as long as they have some way to have a central repository without having to maintain a server on their own.
towelguy··on RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor
xmpp?
towelguy··on Three Years of Logging My Inbox Count
I'd say gmail labels are more like premade searches (with the added bonus of the unread count). I tend to move every email I expect into it's own label with filters and the "inbox" is just for the unexpected stuff.
towelguy··on Show HN: An Isomorphic JavaScript Framework Faster Than React
It's funny Meteor actually has this problem upside down and are trying to add a way to have server side rendering.
towelguy··on Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
And all of them are Darude's Sandstorm.
towelguy··on Show HN: Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface San Francisco
I think this is a case of https://xkcd.com/915/
towelguy··on Bitfinex has been hacked
> will be fully absorbed by the company

So they'll pay with the money they stole themselves? At least they got some publicity out of it.

towelguy··on Computing at the speed of light
>5 years

https://xkcd.com/678/

towelguy··on UTC might be redefined without Leap Seconds
I expect less than 100%
towelguy··on Popcorn Time in Your Browser
Paradoxically, torrenting sometimes is the only way to get an obscure show/movie they don't even sell anymore. I'll take few seeders over nothing at all.
towelguy··on Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent
So if I close my browser I have to start downloading all over?

The reason I like torrents over regular downloads is that I can pause and resume at any point. In the browser it's not always reliable.

towelguy··on Popcorn Time in Your Browser
They could switch to webtorrent: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent
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