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> The costs involved in modern campaigns can be insurmountable with the restrictions placed on donations and expenditures. The costs have exceed inflation, the limits have not. Uh,…

From the magazine of things that totally happened

No, actually, Java is a really bad language. It has a very complicated type system, but doesn't even allow you to express things like function composition or generic sums at the la…

I think the majority of programmers are very conservative about language, they use whatever they already know, be it Java, C#, C++, ruby, etc. A minority are more fashion-driven - …

Right ... websites with tests and a staging environment never experience downtime.

What's up with the cliff anyway? You're already asking me to take a much higher level of risk and a much lower level of liquidity than I'd like in my compensation, by giving me sto…

No, I'm simply stating the fact that there are type systems capable of encoding assertions.

All unit test assertions can be caught by a type checker.

line height is straightforward enough, if you draw text with line height on N then you should move N pixels down for the next line. Text baseline is the tricky part - if you want t…

When you're tying your square wheels together into a big circle so they turn better, it's time to start reinventing.

I've written text wrapping and responsiveness code for canvas, in javascript - I don't think the complexity is even of the same order of magnitude as React or Angular.

If you want to do immediate mode, then why would you use the DOM at all? Canvas is supported in IE9+, and is much less complicated for such applications.

There are cases where the viewpoint "Of course one side is always right and the other isn't", has been entirely correct. For example, there was real controversy for decades over th…

You seem to think that an organized political group being pretty consistently wrong is a reductio ad adsurdum...?

The person you're replying to never said they had no reason to be protesting, only that the google buses benefit the city, employees, and environment. This leaves an enormous numbe…

Assuming that everyone has a reasonable point, is also a bias. There are protests over gay marriage and "get the government out of medicare" and all kinds of ridiculous things.

asm.js doesn't do fancy 1970 stuff like threads, and can't do them unless it breaks backwards compatibility, which is its one technical advantage.

I clicked the comment link for this story just to see how HN readers would make this simple feel-good story into some cynical circle-jerk. Was not disappointed.

How many layers of indirection can we put between the developer and the machine?

PNaCl has been in development for a while, I'm having trouble understanding just what is being announced here. Is PNaCl now enabled by default in Chrome? I also hadn't seen pepper.…

I guess that was obscure - I meant it selects for the candidates with few other options, i.e. a weak resume.

A one-week trial run seems like a very bad idea to me. I wouldn't even consider going through such a long interview process. It's basically a low-pass filter on your candidate pool…

Yeah, definitely just more propaganda from "Big Haskell IDE".

"Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" is among the best papers I've ever read, many other great pieces here as well.