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They should follow the more familiar pattern of CSS libraries with a series of simple examples. I feel this reads more like a paper.

Basic income without universal housing, healthcare and education is more-or-less a poverty sentence.

One obscure issue that ends with the comment "It's slow but I don't think it's the crippling bug I first thought it was." hardly supports a claim that " Angular4 suffers from the s…

> 17.an amazing IDE - it has a tool to debug macros! This may be true for an experienced user, but I've mainly used VS Code/Atom/Sublime etc, and I did not enjoy DrRacket -- I'm as…

I'm still slightly confused. The author suggests that a monad is composed of 3 functions. It seems to me you've shown 2 of these functions. a -> m b >>= What is the third function?…

How does that differ from saying the same thing about say webpack -- ie, "the build is documented in the webpack config"?

> Boser explains why some of the most common ways we try to memorize information are actually totally ineffective, and he reveals what to do instead. I couldn't get past the first …

> You can use History PushState [0] and CustomEvents [1] to handle routing. Can you please expand on this?

Oh, a Wire reference on HN... my life is one step closer to completion.

Is the xkcd Appropriate Standards strip appropriate here?

Why should hackers be gender neutral or agender/androgynous?

I did get the impression he was quite accomplished -- given his acknowledgement from NASA -- so I guess... success?

Oh, thanks for clarifying. I misunderstood.

I'll be damned if I'm going to let my boss tell me if I can write a WordPress plugin on my own time.

Yes, sure is one hell of an "improvement"!

This seems like good advice for younger adults, or even teenagers, entering the workforce.

Call me a pessimist but I doubt the vast majority of people will ever find true mentorship. Would it be nice to have a more experienced and talented developer take a personal inter…

> 2. Attend every lecture and take notes very few if any notes. Most of what you need is in the book and math is about understanding. You cannot grok and write at the same time, an…

You could try playing video games with an in-game voice chat. Although, please, be cautious as some gamers have extremely poor manners and can be offensive.

> Elm has inspired other frameworks in Purescript and the development of ReactJS Can you give a few examples? Google is not being helpful.

I was in a similar boat and I recommend angular2 using the CLI. The build process is totally abstracted and the nice thing about angular is that you're never really going to be won…

It seems as though the instructor expects a compiled pdf, so maybe it's a more theoretical course? http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring14/hmwk.html

I'm not sure if you can describe modern democracies as a will of the majority -- marijuana legalization, civil rights movements, anti war sentiments as examples.

It seems to me that most job adverts require a technical degree or relevant experience. I feel that very few jobs would make a distinction between a SE or CS degree.

Why would I use this (windows server 2k16 + Microsoft SQL) vs a linux image + Postgres? Does anyone have any insight in this comparison? It seems to me that this stack is expensive…