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I am saddened by how such a crappy language has such a following. Sad, disappointed, frustrated, annoyed, angry, dumbfounded...
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Javascript (and therefore by extension Node.js) does some things beautifully well. The way in which it implements asynchronicity using callbacks is simple and straight-forward. The fact that functions are first-class citizens makes for highly reusable code.
But then there is the absolute clusterfuck that is type coercion.
It has some good parts and some bad parts. The trick is to know which is which.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Dominic Burford wrote: It has some good parts and some bad parts. The trick is to know which is which.
Agreed. And like my experience with Ruby, Javascript can look beautiful in the hands of an expert. In everyone else's hands (including mine, BTW, but I'm learning) it looks like a bowl of spaghetti. Granted that is true for any language, but some languages seem to inherently promote that kind of coding more than others. One day I'll sit down and think about it and write an article on why. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I think the reason why node's gaining share is that while in the idealized blog demo form it and rails both look elegant; node also has the reputation of decent performance while rails performance has become well known as a glacially slow cluster-elephant.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Now a new project from the Mozilla (the nonprofit creator of the Firefox browser) is experimenting with an alternative to data monopolies, by asking users to pool information in order to power open-sourced AI initiatives. Because their browser is doing so well, they can afford the time
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Back in the late 90s, when standards were proprietary and communication protocols complicated, two data formats appeared on the horizon. You have nothing to lose but many, many, many angle brackets
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And then there are those of us that still have to create flat files from COBOL PIC documentation. 
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Amusingly, I find that in some cases JSON can prove even more verbose than XML.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Google has confirmed that it is trialing videos that automatically start playing when they appear in its search results. This 'feature' brought to you by the Bing marketing team?
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Only if everyone starts giving us private offices instead of this open-plan crap.
Ditto for Dragon Naturally Speaking and other voice crap.
Crap.
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Keep on not being evil....
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Petition on GitHub appears in the wake of Adobe announcing its end-of-life schedule for the Flash Player "Let it go, let it go. Turn away and slam the door."
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"I don't care what they're going to say. Let the storm Flash rage on."
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When Adobe management was asked why the year 2020 they said "it had to do with the companies vision"... 
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We propose integrating safe manual memory
management with garbage collection in the .NET runtime to get the best of both worlds. No two memories are alike?
.NET CoreCLR implementation on real-world applications show substantial performance gains especially
in multithreaded scenarios: up to 3x savings in peak working sets and 2x improvements in runtime.
Huh. Manual memory management deemed performant. Go figger.
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Quote: We propose integrating safe manual memory management with garbage collection in the .NET runtime to get the best worst of both worlds.
Let's face reality: Little Joe Expert messing around with such new optimization possibilities will cause lots of trouble.
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It's the first time scientists performed gene editing on human embryos in the US. "You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something: I am God."
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Is that the same as the Lawnmower Man?
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Nope... it is the same as Dr. Moureau
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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You don't actually miss anything that important. But it shows a possible future for such investigation field.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Bloomberg reports that a surge in Amazon’s stock has helped propel Bezos to the top of rich list, ahead of the company’s earnings reports later today. Poor Bill. Maybe we should start a GoFundMe to help out?
Edit: Aaaaand, now he isn't anymore[^].
modified 27-Jul-17 17:20pm.
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Amazon's price to earnings (P/E) is currently 197. That means if their earnings was $1000, their market value would be $197,000. Apple P/E is 17.4. I expect Amazon to come down to the 60 P/E range, though I expect profits will increase in the future. So Bezos' wealth is probably near its pinnacle.
modified 27-Jul-17 13:51pm.
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