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> Imagine having to constantly fight similar urges all the time I don't have to imagine, I have a child who survived a TBI that included damage to the hypothalamus. He's never sati…

I'd assume it's argument chaining, e.g.: > find('elements').clear('contents').add('border')

iAlwaysStartGreenFieldJavascriptWithCamelCase_but_then_comes_the_json_and_all_is_lost.

> Code should be clear first, elegant second. I disagree: code should be correct before it is clear. And because it's so easy to mess up a for loop (for me at least), I choose list…

Yes, I understand that. I guess my original question would have been better put: can the notion of "current state" be avoided with persistent data structures, and if so, how?

> Once you scratch a little bit the surface, you will see the extraordinary power of its persistent data structures. I've heard this repeatedly, yet in the examples I've read (for …

> So the solution is to provide drugs that somehow deaden random neurons in somewhat random parts of the brain, and hope they don't cause massive side effects down the line? The au…

I tend to agree with you and I understand the distinction you're making. And yet: > but conceal or misrepresent what they've seen. That's lying. They're accomplices to the abuse an…

> that, in fact, the bad actors constitute an overwhelming minority of the population This survey contradicts that assertion: http://www.aele.org/loscode2000.html From the survey: …

There's a more, er... traditional, debugger for Golang in the works: https://github.com/derekparker/delve

> I'm pretty sure the side effects would be utterly intolerable even at half of that dose. I'm absolutely sure. My son takes methylphenidate for traumatic narcolepsy and hyperphagi…

Interesting, thanks! FWIW, ambassadord has consul integration and that's something I've wanted.

Maybe a bit off-topic. I haven't found a satisfactory solution to having communicating containers across multiple hosts. There seems to be quite a few solutions in the making (libs…

(3a) No, because your data model never allows physical deletes. (3b) And because you modeled up to 6NF with temporal keys, you've got the record from (1) and (2) and you know at wh…

> Making an action undoable often more than doubles the development cost of that feature. Every time I've added the feature, it's bordered on trivial (start a timer to execute the …

Would a similar suit by Pelosi also be theater to you?

September... 2012. See this thread (one of the longest on the mailing list atm): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/angular/tqFZBkWPvl8 I know that doesn't answer your questio…

I avoided routing with Angular as long as I could because my initial attempts were.. shall we say, painful (and I blame me, not Angular). When I returned to the routing bits in my …

Hayek was not a conservative. http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/articles/hayek-why-...

It's the "blank identifier", a throw-away variable. See http://golang.org/ref/spec#Blank_identifier

AngularJS is too cool for babies!

> The idea of the tax man as a thief in the night is just silly. Oh, really? Instead of argument by assertion, let's try an idea. Your neighbor comes and takes your bicycle without…

> Taking advantage of the infrastructure, market, and support of one country only to flee to a tax haven abroad is neither moral nor respectable. A thief comes into your home and t…

Our team built the site for NGS. We used Django (they're a Django shop), RabbitMQ, and a whole lot of Elasticearch. Our biggest challenges were scaling to the size of their members…