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The far future may be similar to Banks's Culture novels: each of us supports a cloud of thousands and thousands of micro-drones. As the ages pass countermeasures against these dron…

The tragedy of Galois is that he could have contributed so much more to mathematics if he'd only spent more time on his marksmanship.

Classes are in IE11 Technical Preview and, I believe, the latest versions of V8 as well.

I considered switching to sublime from vim just for sane line wrapping. If you have indents, vim forces you to hard wrap or else end up with an unreadable soup. Sublime, on the oth…

Each function has its own this binding - the conceptual model for this is that its an implicit argument to every function call. There is no scope chain lookup for "this". Although,…

Both let and const are supported in IE11 as well!

I'm getting flashbacks to the VerizonMath Fiasco. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2007/08/original-recording-o...

Yahoo did and does have a spot at the table because they are a dues-paying member of ECMA. They have as much weight in the committee as any other member (MS, Google, Mozilla, now F…

I don't think "threw a fit" is an accurate description. More like, objected to many aspects for technical reasons. And, considering that TC-39 agreed at the Oslo meeting to pursue …

This is explicitly about getting more sites to work /without/ forcing older sites to update their stuff. Older sites have ifIE() checks that return true and serve IE old legacy IE-…

I could be wrong, but at one point I calculated that the HD280s meet OSHA requirements for hearing protection for certain noise levels.

I think BE is a fan of the max-min class proposal... At any rate, naming aside, ES6 classes are simple syntactic sugar for a very common pattern in JS development today. It makes s…

When I go to that page, I only see Linux installers (a .run file). Where are the installers for Mac/Windows?

Yes, IE 10 has IE 6 (Quirks), 7, 8, and 9 mode.

I'm sick of seeing Nitin fucking Gupta at every conference I go to. I'm glad TED is finally taking a stand and blacklisting him.

In truth, employees are not rated at all on whether their app gets downloads, unless maybe you're one of the in-box apps. Apps like the one linked above are covered under a moonlig…

How do I use typescript? I seem to be getting syntax errors.

> There is pretty much no other justification for this metro/desktop mashup possible. There are many, but one compelling reason is having the best of both worlds. You may disagree …

Is there a way to view one of these tables without having to log in?

No surprise it's boggling your mind if you haven't used it. If you want to stay in desktop mode, you can, with the minor exception of having a start menu that displays more stuff a…

Users must install some software for this to work right? Some browser plugin of some kind?

The message is, just like every technology, there's an initial period where a vocal minority loves it and tries to use it for everything. Then, there's a backlash where a vocal min…

They'll probably add this. Windows 8 supports lock screen notifications as well. It's really great to see your next meeting and weather right on the lock screen.

There are roughly 1 million USD Bitcoin transactions per day.[1] The stolen transaction accounts for 10% of a single day's worth of transactions. 1. http://blockchain.info/charts/e…

Members of the TC39 committee include representatives from Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft. Javascript engines from these vendors will almost surely implement the standard. F…