“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012) 10 years ago
Unbelievable, so many up votes for this complete idiot statement..
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Training Computers to Find Future Criminals 10 years ago
Convicting people for criminal behaviour based on a subjective definition of it, is what we already do wrong. Way too many innocent people end up being punished or killed, which I expect to be (objectively) a criminal act in itself. So, I thought we better first have a tool that solves that, instead of a tool that amplifies it.
Training Computers to Find Future Criminals 10 years ago
It might be a better idea to first train computers to define criminality objectively, because most people cannot.
What a great project, and what a great synth you have reproduced! This is an awesome musical instrument, nothing less. Really inspiring, thanks for making and posting it.
An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage 10 years ago
The perfect story for a movie, amazing, thanks for sharing.
JavaScript libraries should be written in TypeScript 10 years ago
I was kind of frustrated for a while with the broken type system of Javascript, as well as with the lack of easy type checking. I then wrote a simple small library to make my life a little easier. It's called types.js, in NPM as well..
Changing my entire code to TypeScript just feels a bit over the top to achieve only static type checking. I now only dynamically check if needed. I believe there are so much worse and important problems we are dealing with as Javascript developers today that need attention.
I really believe WASM will become the base for a great new language that eventually will make Javascript, TypeScript and so many others deprecated, solving a zillion problems at once.
Show HN: New Hacker News web client 12 years ago
Looking good, only the score numbers might be a little too thin, and the margin on hover animation doesn't work for me. It distracts me from reading, becoming a bit annoying.
Einstein: The Negro Question (1946) 12 years ago
Amazingly great thinker with a great heart too, we are so in need of people like him..
That's funny, I'm working on something similar for Javascript: https://www.npmjs.com/package/xs.js
Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason 12 years ago
Not to speak about the Firefox 29 release, they ruined it, I reinstalled and the old version, still on 28 now..
Static? I use my own type-checking/enforcing lib as a base for everything I write in JS or CS (https://github.com/phazelift/types.js). It's only 1.8kb, dynamic and never fails on me.