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I've seen "progressive javascript"[1] and "heterogeneous javascript". Both of which are much better IMHO. [1]: https://medium.com/the-thinkmill/making-the-case-for-progres...

True enough. I wonder how much of the problem comes from trying to be compatible with software packages designed for other systems.

I don't know much about the nix language, but it looks to me like the gpgme support is optional: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...

You probably could, but there would be lots of extra boiler plate that distract from the central idea. The OCaml language features that are used that would need to be emulated some…

I'm surprised you mention camlp4 as an advantage over F#. It is being removed from the official distribution due to the problems that it causes[1], to be replaced with extension po…

Keep them. But don't trust them.

> I don't know what you mean by this. An Iterable cannot return Null from its first attribute. Check the declaration of Iterable.first. This made me sad again[1], but then this mad…

I assume this is the implementation [1](took me a while to find the type to see how the compiler might interpret it). I read the definition as (ignoring the implementation): return…

> > Can I write a method that's polymorphicly nullable? > Sure. You should see the crazily cool stuff we can do with stuff like the signature of max(). You'll be impressed, I promi…

I would find Caps+a very difficult to type (since it uses the two weakest fingers). Have you ever tried Caps+d or Caps+f?

If I may, the goal seems a bit incorrectly specified for hypermedia. For instance, if github decided to change the number of results they return per page, then your script would no…

There is no such thing as "arbitrary hypermedia". watch these two very good talks on this topic: * http://oredev.org/2012/sessions/designing-hypermedia-apis * http://vimeo.com/2078…

You can implement crons level of timing specificity with a few "every" jobs and some variables. e.g. (not real syntax) every minute: set minute = (minute + 1) % 60 when minute = 4 …

I think the simplicity comes from being able to learn each piece in isolation, without any loss of generality. In addition, once each piece is learned, it does not need to be used …

The size of the market probably dictates the additional fee (at least for now).

I think the difference would be that TomTom supplies it's own maps in the App, whereas Google Navigation probably downloads the tiles/street view as you go. This can make a world o…

There are some algorithms and techniques that will improve static analysis in a greater than linear fashion (however, I wouldn't guarantee exponentially). see Model Verification: h…

and it makes sense that static analysis tools won't discover anything not already covered by tests That assertion doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Most static analysers are capab…

Of course not. At least not yet. The only missing piece is to bind the data that is already found in the html to the data found in the view-model object (or create the view-model o…

actually the attribute syntax leaves a lot to be desired in terms of redundancy. First you have to quote the attributes (or put a : in front of them?), yuck. you need to use the =>…

Yes, knockoutjs doesn't have it's own validation rules. Yes knockoutjs doesn't have routing. Yes, knockoutjs doesn't have ajax helpers. In all these frameworks that add those featu…

For me, the new operator (in javascript) is an optimisation, so it should be inserted into a code base after profiling. In accordance with the "make it work, make it right, make it…

The desugaring process is what makes the for loop magic. I cannot write a different control structure that looks like the that for loop in scala without touching the compiler. A co…