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I believe it's a reference to President Roosevelt's ["Fireside chats"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireside_chats) radio addresses during the 30's-40's

Seems to be any topic mentioning libera chat.

I tend to feel the same way but then again I have a fair amount of information that can show up in my prompt, the difference however being that it is all black against a black background so the only time I see it is if I highlight a line. Works out well for having an information dense prompt but keeping the distractions and noise lower.

Neat little side fact, the author of this blog has actually been doing consulting for that show :D He's even got several blog posts about it

Pretty sure VxWorks is still used today for a lot of spacecraft; Curiosity[^1] and at least at one point the SpaceX Dragon capsule[^2] it looks like.

^1: http://www.windriver.com/announces/curiosity/ ^2: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/pdf/DragonLabFactSh...

Oooh, that definitely helps a fair bit. I think the label dropdown in the panel head is nice and what I'll end up using the most often. Still have to find all the little changes hidden around this :D

This is nice and everything, but the one thing that I don't like so far is that getting to the list of labels isn't just a sidebar away anymore but instead a whole tab change. I do see that you can filter by label through the filter textbox, but that isn't quiet the same for someone like me who uses the colors more than the name of the label.

Overall, looks nice though. Curious to hear what power uses think of it.

So I've been porting part of our internal analytics system at work over to using polymer and I have to say: damn. It's nice to have and being able to make custom reusable elements that can expose a preset functionality and a powerful (if you write it that way) api is pretty nice. Overall I'm pretty happy with it, but can't really speak for how usable outside of our little sphere it is.

We haven't had any issues with speed or page performance and only target chrome however.

Awesome! Let me know how it goes and feel free to file as many bugs and issues as you can. I've been saying that I'm going to be releasing v1 soon but school and summer internships have been getting in the way of that, but you might want to take a look at the `dev` branch it is much better than the current v0.3 thats on PyPi, imo.

Damn, rethink won't stop getting better and better! I'm looking forward to getting to use the changefeeds, as I've currently got a redis list that I use to get notified of changes to rethinkdb, which is fine but just another cog in the system to debug.

Seriously guys, thanks for the great product and awesome database experience (PyRethinkORM author here).

It does have batteries on board however after its long life they appear to be dead.[1]

1 - http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1697/1

I love how you have to attend an hour long class and file a form to get an npr email address :) It's interesting to see the difference between whats portrayed in the memo and what today is like where the internet is fairly common place and accepted.

Bit late on this (school gets the better of me most days), but thanks! I'm glad (and happy) that PyRethinkORM has been helpful to someone.

RethinkDB is pretty awesome. Its a blast working with it and the Python driver is quite well rewritten, imo.

As the author of PyRethinkORM for Python it was ridiculously easy to write compared to an ORM for say SQL which was a major selling point for using RethinkDB behind my last several projects.

I'm fairly excited about the ARM port as I've been wanting to use Rethink on a few projects on my BeagleBone White/Black. The new map/reduce changes are pretty cool too.

I think you're focusing on a different point then the argument. Javascript is often compared to the assembly language of the web because its a) low level web programming and b) its universal; both much like assembly in their own way.

How low level do you need in web programming? Probably not that low, why? Because with web programming it has the potential of being much easier to do something malicious if you have access to the raw hardware like you do in assembly. The whole point of Javascript was to make more interactive sites, and when it comes down to it, Javascript does an awfully good job at being that low level language to do so; It has come to represent the raw fundamentals of web programming as we have envisioned them. So just because its a fully formed language that is much higher level than anything assembly comes close to, doesn't mean that it still isn't 'low level' with in its use case.

Javascript also has the advantage of being universal, much like assembly. Assembly is universal in the sense that different flavors of instruction sets come on different microcontrollers but no matter what, nearly all uc's come with a reference guide which lists out the hex values for each instruction the CPU supports which can be used to build an assembler. These instruction sets all contain a core set of fundamentals such as basic math through the ALU, and storing/reading values and moving the PC and SC around. Which at the end of the day means that all uc's have support for an assembly language in some fashion that shares a common base. The same can be said with Javascript. Every browser comes with its own flavor of the language which supports the common base and then adds some fluff on top, but no matter what, nearly every browser comes with it.

At the end of the day though, trying to compare these is nearly a null-point to me, because they were designed in completely different ages of computing, and are designed for different tasks and are not (not easily at least, although a uc with support for a Javascript vm is possible, and replacing Javascript with assembly is fully possibly, both are rather difficult tasks and as such this argument is, for practical reasons, null also) interchangeable.

I started using Redis for storing basic/low-level session store data for my python web stack and have been amazed at just about every feature available. Its a breeze to work with and speedy fast. Thank you for the continued work Redis folks!

Part of the problem for why this stuff isn't taught in high school as much is that (and I do say this with some hesitance, as an engineering student who has had a strong math education, imo) I feel most people would probably not benefit much from having that additional content added into the high school course. The other and more major issue I see is that universities seem to be (just from personal experience and hearing friends stories too) starting to want students to take most of their higher maths, that above basic algebra it seems sometimes, at the university. While you could argue that this is because they are greedy and want more money from forcing students to take more classes, I'd like to think that the reason why is because of how fragmented american high school math courses can be.

Personally, as an engineering student, I'd rather take most of my math classes here at my university because they tend to all be tied together (both with the math department and engineering department courses) well and I know that where I leave off in Ordinary Diff Eq, I will pick right back up from in Ord. Diff. Eq 2. Coming from having taken calculus and calculus 2 in high school and having entered straight to calculus 3 in university, I didn't have this comfort and in fact ended up missing some content between the classes as a result. There is also the issue of choice, and the limits of it within the context of high school curriculum.

Just my 2 cents against teaching additional stuff in high school (or probably addressing the wrong point within this comment). Also, I'm not sure (obviously) what its like across the nation, but at my high school at least these topics where all covered and taught to (nearly) all students: > Basic algebra and geometry: Order of operations; simplifying expressions; solving quadratic equations by factoring; finding area and perimeter of shapes; the classic "garden problem" (maximize area of a rectangle given fixed sum of 3 sides); naming the Platonic solids; adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing complex numbers; logarithms; solving exponential equations. [...] solving linear congruences with small moduli by trial and error; finding gcd and lcm; prime factorization;