No, HTML was the web. We are building web applications now with Javascript. I hope that Web Assembly will end the need to write any HTML tag ever again in our web apps.
I didn't know I have a plastic addiction. But industry and governments do, because of the easy money it generates. They are addicted to money, I can see that.
I really don't like the current movement of introducing static typing in dynamic typed languages. Why did we create dynamic typed languages after all? Because we know the pain of having to type everything and especially the pain of converting one type into another.
In C you mainly need static types because you cannot put 32 bits into a 16 bit CPU register, or you cannot do pointer arithmetic on values of different types, etc.. But that is not the reason why we want types in dynamically typed languages. We just want to prevent passing incompatible types as argument to a receiving method for example. And by adding static typing to dynamically typed languages we actually invalidate these languages entirely, full circle. First we create a dynamically typed language, then we change that into a statically typed language that transpiles back to a dynamically typed language, which is terribly inefficient, why would you want that? I have never been able to convince the proponents, they appear to be in some kind of higher state, having found the holy grail.
Almost all the benefits of static typing added to dynamic languages can be achieved by a better and smarter IDE. All these new 'typed' languages with all their own issues are only temporal I expect. We keep changing and rewriting while thinking we're doing it 'the right way' now.. Like Typescript, how long will that live? Flow is deprecated already. The very best thing of the C language is that it is still C, and that is fucking awesome for C developers, after all those years they can still write in the language they master.
> CoffeeScript had its moment in the sun, then the good parts got merged into JS
No. Some good parts have been merged, but so many good parts will never get to ESxx or Typescript. Most dev's just don't see it because they do not know Coffeescript well enough. Compared to Coffeescript, Babel is a total mess with all it's options/plugs config etc..
I rarely have type issues in JS, Python or Coffescript. I do have type issues in Typescript though. I fix that with 'any', just like my collegues. A Typescript codebase is about 2x bigger than a Coffeescript codebase, that means about 2 times more chance for bugs. But it's totally amazing to see the Typescript proponents considering the language to be a godsend. I moved from C/C++ to Javascript to get rid of static typing, it's part of my love for JS, but now that joy is being destroyed by static type enthusiasts.
I've never worked in a pretty Typescript codebase ever, same with JS, so many bad constructs, bad naming, bad architecture, etc, etc.. IMAO the real problems with codebases cannot be fixed with Typescript, the problems are way too big and complex for that.
I still don't understand why JS dev's that crave for types don't do Elm or Purescript instead of Typescript.
Interesting, especially when you consider the environmental disaster that occurs when something goes wrong with nuclear power. Think Fukushima or Chernobyl. From the actual HN list right now: https://moxie.org/stories/chernobyl-scene-report/
Uhhh, collecting, storing and trying to make profit with it at some point in time? I still wonder why people don't realise this when they buy such system, it's so obvious.
I don't like the animation on the website. I'd expect stationary satellites, not moving criss cross around the earth. Or will they not be stationary? This is confusing..
> Amazon Help promised to "be in touch soon" and thanked Ice-T for his feedback.
So, Amazon does respond to customers questions, I mean apparently when you're rich and famous..
I am banned for life because I tried to buy something when my credit-card was on its limit without me knowing it. It was a non-issue as I monthly settle any credit-card debt outstanding. But no Amazon for me anymore, no customer support nothing, banned for life, amazing company.
So author, who are you? You start already with an authoritarian touch. What makes you believe you are not an incompetent interviewer? How can an applicant assess your skills, you could easily be the greatest fuck up in the company. Is your company really that cool that I should want to die to work there? Did you first weed out all the incompetent staff that is duck sitting there playing business politics?
IMAO most companies are not any better than the applicants applying. And no, you didn't hire only the best from all candidates, you just have a rich imagination that favours your ego.
> This seems like it will inevitably discourage victims from reporting crime
Indeed. And this new policy will help the police/government to bring down criminality figures. I would be surprised if that is not the actual intent. In a few years they will triumphantly announce that the UK police is doing so well, that it has become a much safer place to live. Welcome to politics.
They were one of the very best ever. It's a shame Pete Steel died already.. I heard he was heavily inspired by Lycia, pretty deep too, but not the production level of Type O Negative unfortunately.
Maybe because when you are depressed you want to hear something that resonates within you? But what is 'Sad' in music? I think you crave for depth in musical emotions, not particularly 'sad' when you are depressed.
As I understood from previous discussions is that the MCAS is there to compensate for a physical design flaw. This plane should never been accepted by the IATA.