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Very interested in this. Is there a good place to stay updated on your progress?

I would be interested in hearing more about why Ingram is considered a terrible resource, if you care to share.

i love the design of this site.

Not to be pedantic, but a vipassana retreat is a 10-day (though not always strictly 10) retreat. Vipassana is not itself a retreat but a method for seeing the nature of reality.

See also https://golem.network

Nice! Though, seems odd to me that each entry copies the original article but reformats the text poorly. Would it not be better to simply link to the article itself? As is, much of…

This may just give you more questions but you might be interested in this: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame The readme.md is wonderful.

I agree. The name confused me until I spent more time with the docs than should have been necessary.

Not clear to me why the README.md has no images of the design itself or its rationale but rather just some dudes bro'ing out on a patio. My intention is not to sound negative... th…

Do you have a Twitter account? I can't see your email address on HN

Sure thing. I'll shoot you an email in a few

Meditation works for me. I am relatively new to it (few months) but have found what I was looking for simply by understanding that I am not my thoughts, that without them I still e…

So many less painful ways of reaching this mental state with greater clarity. But if it works for him, then cool I guess.

looks like you wooshed a little bit

This is the only answer to his question :)

Lyft's support team seems nonexistant. I've sent several emails to them and never received a reply.

None of the upgrades in ES6/ES7 obviate the need for frameworks. Maybe some libraries are made redundant, but frameworks address more interesting abstractions that a general langua…

The DOM strikes as being composed of layers of incidental complexity that get in the way of the actual problem you're trying to solve. jQuery, or abstractions like it, allow us to …

Lots of blanket statements in this article. He asserts there is a 'proper' order to learning JavaScript but makes no demonstration of that assertion. For me, jQuery was a gateway t…

Condescending yes, but more importantly, entirely wrong.

Same. Not sure why this is such a popular thing to do. Makes error handling almost impossible to reason about.

I'm in. I'd love to chip in some $$$ to support it, as well.