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I was reading the article Where The Web Is Going In 2016[^] and it discusses how the prototype.contains standard method was renamed .includes in order to not break a bunch of sites using the old MooTools library. MooTools defines its own contains so changing this method's implementation would break 6.5% of the web. Evidently.
To me this is a bad, bad case of painting yourself into a corner. If you're going to keep not defining new language constructs because a library de jour once used it then you're going to run out of names.
Wouldn't it be more sensible to start by defining a pattern by which new language versions could be introduced into the web without breaking old sites? I dunno - something like what we actually already have:
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That way if you want to use new features you explicitly use them. If you don't name your poison then you get the default. It won't solve version issues, but it would allow a path forward and a reasonable path to deprecation.
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Chris Maunder
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I agree.
And in this particular case, I further argue that "includes" and "contains" and not synomyms -- sort of like the "search" versus "find" debate.
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It was bad enough that non-standard extensions made their impact on naming process - now this?
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I don't think the web will be better with badly molded javascript language. No versioning, js has to be redesigned from ground up. That's final!
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Chris Maunder wrote: MooTools defines its own contains so changing this method's implementation would break 6.5% of the web.
So, our implementations are now dictated by the errors of others? 
Anything built on top of JavaScript will still be JavaScript.
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Off-topic.
Hey, we are still waiting for the IOT competition announcement. Thought it was going to be today?
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Nish Nishant wrote: Hey, we are still waiting for the IOT competition announcement
Give it about another half hour 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks
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Apologies for the meta-observation:
The one that pisses me off is, every standard defines a method for extending the standard to cover new situations. Over time, people realize that the extension method doesn't cover all the cases, so they define a new standard, with a new extension method. The process then recurses into its own navel.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Perhaps they should think of something that actually works, i.e. not HTML/CSS and JavaScript 
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I absolutely concur, semantic versioning (ala Rust) for language versions.
Breaking changes necessitate a new language version.
Minor, non-breaking changes are minor versions.
Bug fixes and the like are revisions.
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Chris Maunder wrote: changing this method's implementation would break 6.5% of the web.
I was bored enough yesterday to drill down to the analytics dashboard where that 6.5% number came from. 6.5% was from when the original objections were raised a few years back. It's down to about 2% now. Journalism at its finest. 
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There's a great read about idealism vs. pragmatism: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html
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Just an interesting graphic that shows what percentage of people are vegetarians across the various states. Typically, people assume most of India is vegetarian, but this graphic shows otherwise.
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This is quite interesting for me, my girlfriend is Indian and she is always going on about vegetarianism Don't really understand the relative sizes of the circles though? Sometimes they make sense and sometimes they don't (like Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh).
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I'm not sure. Most of them look like the split is by area; but you're right about a few looking messed up. I'd add HR to the list of ones that look errored, it's 30% omnivores circle is bigger than the 33% in PB or the 39% in GJ.
Regardless this is just a crappy way to represent the data, any model where linear and area measures don't scale the same is fubar.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I would imagine that most Indian's diet is mostly vegetarian and that meat is a small part of their regular diet.
It is still a big number of people.
I'd rather be phishing!
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It depends on the state really. Kerala for instance is big on meat and seafood. Kerala style beef fry and curry are probably two of the best meat preparations from India.
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Nish Nishant wrote: Typically, people assume most of India is vegetarian
Of course it is. And Tandoori Chicken is a fine example of such vegetarian cuisine 
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Ha Or say pork vindaloo or Kerala beef curry. All good vegetarian options! 
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Great, now I'm hungry.
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In Wales we have a vegetarian option as well.
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Personally I wouldn't care even if it was a breakdown of AC/DC vs ABBA fandom. The graphics are RUBBISH. If you need to write the actual percentages beside the image then your choice of image is fundamentally flawed. The only circular graph that could express the difference meaningfully would be a pie-chart. Using that damned awful concentric circle is uninformative at best; if not outright misleading. Area comparison, even when both are the same shape, are actually hard for the human eye and are rarely chosen to be informative.
People who can't display data meaningfully should be shot with a rusty bolt through the nadgers! 
veni bibi saltavi
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Sorry, they are good at preparing good food but not very good at plotting accurate graphs
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It could have been made marginally worse by doing the tilted circle trick.
veni bibi saltavi
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