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In your example, X is still in scope when f('x') is called. It doesn't require closure to work.

Write it in C then compile it to JS with emscripten

Well $8 for a chip is extremely expensive. I bet a vast majority of keyboards on the market sell in bulk for less than $8.

even though no useful economic activity is taking place

Saving is a useful economic activity. Why should I let some filthy money lender touch my money? It's my money!

Living paycheck to paycheck is not the converse of saving.

When I save money, I invest it in productive enterprise. Thus, I have less in my checking account. You could even consider (gasp) that I'm living pay check to pay check!

I can't hear you over the sound of your filthy and oppressive fiat currency rattling in your pockets.

What a circle jerk.

All those features are hogshit, completely irrelevant, and extremely complicated and difficult to achieve. I have never once watched a movie and said "I didn't like that movie. Let me watch it again with taller actors and more rounded furniture."

Software freedom is the ability to do whatever you want with the code, for example, compiling it. I'm not saying there's any sort of license violation here, but it's not in the spirit of software freedom to "not supposed to install software [from source]"

To the mooooooon!

You're right, all solid savings plans must fit comfortably beneath a mattress. Reminds me of the old saying "If I can't lie down and sleep on top of it comfortably, it's not an investment"

Hang on I almost read that as meaning bitcoin has less financial capability as fiat currency, which we all know is patently false because the premise of bitcoin is centered around an increased flexibility compared with fiat currency.

If you can completely obliterate your margin like that just to make a single sale, I suspect prices are too high and you'd end up doing better by just offering the product at $400.

I sincerely hope names like this become widespread if they accurately describe the job. Very helpful to have a bright red "KEEP OUT" sign.

I've always been told by labview advocates that "you can of course pull up a text editor and write code." The language and API is certainly a different matter, being a second class citizen and presumably an afterthought.

Repost, don't know the original author:

I agree, I can't keep up, I just finished learning backbone.js and now I've found out on HN that it's old news, and I should use ember.js, cross that, it has opinions, I should use Meteor, no, AngularJS, no, Tower.js (on node.js), and for html templates I need handlebars, no mustache, wait, DoT.js is better, hang on, why do I need an HTML parser inside the browser? isn't that what the browser for? so no HTML templates? ok, DOM snippets, fine, Web Components you say? W3C are in the game too? you mean write REGULAR JavaScript like the Google guys? yuck, oh, I just should write it with CofeeScript and it will look ok, not Coffee? Coco? LiveScript? DART? GWT? ok, let me just go back to Ruby on Rails, oh it doesn't scale? Grails? Groovy? Roo? too "Springy?" ok, what about node.js? doesn't scale either?? but I can write client side, server side and mongodb side code in the same language? (but does it have to be JavaScript?) ok, what about PHP, you say it's not really thread safe? they lie?? ok, let me go back to server coding, it's still Java right? no? Lisp? oh it's called Clojure? well, it has a Bridge / protocol buffers / thrift implementation so we can be language agnostic, so we can support our Haskell developers. Or just go with Scala/Lift/Play it's the BEST framework (Foresquare use it, so it has to be good). of course we won't do SOAP and will use only JSON RESTful services cause it's only for banks and Walmart, and god forbid to use a SQL database it will never scale

I've had it, I'm going to outsource this project... they will probably use a wordpress template and copy paste jQuery to get me the same exact result without the headache and in <del>half</del>quarter the price

Include elevation! How fun would that be :)

http://www.oocities.org/ds_map/map_data/myogi.gif

Never ran into any problems with vanilla zsh on Arch, Debian, or OSX -- just pacman -Ss zsh || apt-get install zsh || brew install zsh. What kind of problems did you run into?

Not sure I understand the semantics. I'm passed what looks like a continuation, but instead of calling it, I yield it?

What other values can I yield, and why would I want to?

Alternatively, couldn't the `next` object just be a plain continuation?

Couldn't agree more. I've seen a few "job applications" that are more like marriage proposals, and its sickening.

Hey actually that gives me a great idea: maybe I should spend 100 hours preparing a marriage proposal for that college girlfriend who dumped me.

Here's how that would look in the instruction set we use here ($100M commercial product)

    ; ARM spells it
    ADD R0, R1, R2, LSL #8
    
    ; We spell it
    CLX R0           ; 1 cycles
    ADX R1           ; 1 
    ADX R2           ; 1
    LDX N, 8         ; 3
    RSX              ; N (const 8 in this case)

Anecdotally, I bought Dark Souls not knowing it required a Microsoft game profile to save your game at all -- no local saves whatever. I wrote a (really bitchy) email to Steam and was promptly offered some sort of "special circumstance" refund.

Incidentally I didn't even follow through with it, though I never played the game even once...

Not the same at all! We're talking about Notch's process. I don't think there's any disagreement about his product being top notch (sorry). The product of BS is well, BS, and her process be damned.

Look I know that much of HN has a libertarian and pro-corporation bias. But, I think the article is pretty specific about the profit motive being cause for concern.

The California Board of Health reports, however indirectly, to the taxpayers. This accountability, however insignificant you may perceive it, is simply absent from 23andMe.

To summarize your comparison:

- 23andMe collects genomes to please their VC and Wall Street investors.

- The CA government collects genomes to please the taxpayers.

Be honest, and forget your bank account: who do you really trust more?

Good luck. Making hardware in general, and silicon specifically, is a clusterfuck compared to the software world HN readers likely expect.

Know how a good undergraduate CS degree involves writing hundreds of fully functioning programs? A great graduate EE degree might involve one single functioning piece of silicon.

Know how we bitch about compile time in the minutes or, god forbid, hours? Turnaround time on silicon is weeks at the minimum.

I use "young woman" but then again I only talk to people older than 70 about my personal life.

The real risk that I see is less malice on the part of anybody at Intel, but that some third party could inject some nasty binary into the nice binary and we would have no way of knowing.

Web servers get hacked every day. If somebody gets in and quietly replaces one binary blob with another binary blob, good luck detecting it. Malicious source code is way easier to detect.

This is much in the same vein as basically EVERY piece of software on Windows. We have no recourse in auditing the safety of our own systems.

Yeah 99% of the time the software is benign, but then again so are the police. Personally, I have no reason to mistrust US police. Nonetheless, free states the world over demand recourse against them should they cause harm intentionally or through negligence; I demand the same from my software.

My intuition tells me there exists a more causal link between airborne chili and jalepeno peppers and burning eyes than exists between a roller skating rink and burning eyes.

Yes, people actually do get watery eyes from cutting onions. It's not just that they are sad and blaming it on the onions out of shame.

Besides, the 3D rendering technique is apples compared with the oranges of pixel art. There's really nothing like artisanally crafted, locally sourced pixels made with love ;)

Poe's law strikes again!