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Why are you assuming that none of us defending suburbs are American? There's a reason so many people like to live in them.

In every suburb I've lived in, whether in Austin or Pittsburgh or San Jose, there has been a grocery store within walking distance. I have lived in smaller cities where that's not …

Chains like Starbucks and McDonald's are popular for a reason. They make products people like. They have optimized for scale and cost. They provide consistent product and service, …

Nope, every single programming language and computing interface is an attempt to avoid writing machine code. :)

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Observables are great, and are indeed the stream equivalent to Tasks. But the await/async keyword compilation doesn't support them. I think that's the parent post's point.

The one advantage of C#'s async/await over Go's CSP is that by exposing the underlying Tasks, you can take more control over how the continuations get executed. The result of this …

He's 14, not 12.

How does this project relate to Facebook's other futures/promises library, Bolts? https://code.facebook.com/posts/225525624316574/building-and...

"In general, a character can be represented in 1 byte or 2 bytes. Let's say 1-byte character is ANSI character - all English characters are represented through this encoding. And l…

I should point out that the Parse iOS SDK has been built on top of this task framework for over a year, and the Facebook iOS SDK has been using it for months. So it has been battle…

"In terms of academia and career, engineers at companies like Google are used to doing really well and rejection is not a frequent event in this part of their lives. They probably …

There is a fork of CoffeeScript called IcedCoffeeScript that adds something similar: http://maxtaco.github.com/coffee-script/

> you are nowhere near familiar enough with Go to be justified in doing so Haha, I agree. I wrote it mostly to try to get my thoughts straight, and didn't expect it to be posted to…

PFObject subclassing and a more comprehensive offline solution are both very high on our list of features we would like to add. We're just taking our time to make sure we get them …