Viewing profile — ryanatkn

"The study’s methodology is somewhat questionable, since it counts as French-speakers all the inhabitants of countries where French is an official language, which probably won’t be…

Doesn't almost every service leak users at sign up? There are ways around it but I don't think they've very common.

Same. Flux is really simple and most of the implementations just remove some boilerplate and add some conventions. Given more time there might be a framework that has everything th…

From https://github.com/iojs/io.js > Is it io.js or IO.js or iojs or IOjs or iOjS? > The official name is io.js, which should never be capitalized, especially not at the start of a…

> Haskell has what it calls types I think you mean typeclasses? One of the things that always bothered me about interfaces was the inability to define a default implementation, esp…

LiveScript fixes scoping and adds a ton of other nice features including let and const variable declaration keywords.

The only gripe I share is scoping, and that's fixed in LiveScript. I've started writing LiveScript in a fairly explicit style - for example I use parentheses where they improve rea…

It's far from precise but I'd maintain it's useful to illustrate that if Oculus is a success, Facebook made a great buy.

I qualified it as 0.666x projected sales (intentionally not rounded >:), so yeah that 10M was a projected figure, which unfortunately I can't find the source for. By the end of 201…

No, revenue. For example Google's P/E (the equivalent profit ratio) is currently 31.4, and that's not including the control premium.

A premium? Figures I saw were 10M units at $300. That's 0.666x projected sales, when 2-3x is the norm for mature companies.

Another interesting one is RequireBin[1]. It lets you require npm modules from the browser via browserify and browserify-cdn. [1] http://requirebin.com/

I'm curious how the OP found his startup partner(s) and what the irreconcilable differences were.

JS devs rely heavily on libraries to do things that most programmers would expect the language to handle. $ and _ have been adopted as toolkit identifiers and are littered througho…

Not sure why this article doesn't include a seemingly important detail, but it was widely reported that Justin ended his comments with "LOL" and "JK". Mens rea indeed.

cljs js http://himera.herokuapp.com/synonym.html

Seems the main criticism is sample size - what was it? > showed “no evidence of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of the data”, said a statement from Elsevier, which publishes…

"Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal" http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/07/05/ten-years-af...

Have you seen Wisp? [1] It's a minimalist approach with Clojure syntax. For me it may be the next step after CoffeeScript, which I believe has subtly brainwashed me into loving the…

This interview with Ovshinsky has some interesting stuff. [1] He talks about his motivations being socially driven, his vision of how humanity can use science and technology to mak…

This is ignorant speculation, but what if the interaction doesn't depend on distance, and instead always takes the same fixed amount of time? What if that delta t is equal to 1 pla…

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, that's correct, but everything is relative. The recommended daily intake is the recommended nutrient amount divided by 2000 calories, and this value i…