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(You have no contact info in your profile, so I'll just post this publicly.) I've been thinking a lot of similar thoughts and have been wishing I had more people to discuss this wi…

Do you have a link to an example of hoax story? I haven't seen that.

I was really confused when I read "the constrain() call takes expressions that define the relationships you want to impose" (emphasis mine) and saw this code: container.constrain(b…

Happily, you're first example is actually already supported in the latest Underscore (1.6.0): _.each([1,2,3], _.partial(something, _, 'param')) Example: _.map([1, 2, 3, 4], _.parti…

I agree. The combination of Backbone models/collections and React views bound together by React.Backbone[1] so that the views automatically re-render after any changes to the model…

Obligatory Wikipedia link for those of us (like me) who don't know what materialized views are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialized_view In short: "In a database management s…

Ha, I remember trying to make sites that looked this good, with this aesthetic, back in the 90s. But now, I totally agree. The stock photo girl with headphones along with a lot of …

Yeah, it looks like I got that part wrong. (I intentionally skimmed over the transactor, because I was avoiding "how" issues and because my understanding of it wasn't that clear.) …

I think this has a lot to do with it. After an hour of reading, watching and thinking, I can't come up with any way to put it into one paragraph. Here's the shortest what and why I…

Yeah, I had a similar concern but it's just a confusion from thinking that every peer has to be equally powerful (i.e. all weak) and has to run on the end-user's computer. If you p…

These are my favorites: Rich Hickey: Keynote -- Not another philosophy meets programming talk unfortunately, but interesting nonetheless. Rich talks about possible future features …

Just for quick comparison, here are the results from November 2011: Java (875) Javascript (787) SQL (687) Python (546) PHP (443) Ruby (395) Android (306) Objective-C (139) Javascri…

Based on the work of a previous commenter, I posted this code in the blog comments: (defn add-rands [] (let [ds (double-array 30000000)] (dotimes [i 30000000] (aset ds i (Math/rand…

I'd like to point out in particular "Are We There Yet?" ( http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic... ) If you liked this talk, then you will definitely like "A…