benaston

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by benaston 9y ago
In the video, why does Lath Carlson, Executive Director of the Seattle Living Computers Museum euphemize history by saying Steve Jobs "quit" in 1985?
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by benaston 10y ago
The EU is a supra-national political union with the aim of turning nation states into regions and centralising power and wealth in an unelected/indirectly elected elite. You might make free software more reliable and secure. The EU won
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by benaston 10y ago
This is not journalism. It is a (likely paid for) ad for Tesla.
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by benaston 11y ago
I'd double check the emissions readings before and after this "bug fix".
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by benaston 11y ago
By advocating childlessness?
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by benaston 11y ago
Who says gender inequality doesn't have consequences?
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by benaston 11y ago
You're using big words, but you're citing the Telegraph and Guardian?
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by benaston 11y ago
I did exactly the same thing several weeks ago, for my own state machine implementation. https://www.npmjs.com/package/mistic
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by benaston 11y ago
Those working on other standards should take heed.
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by benaston 11y ago
Semicolons have always been optional. Brackets are only used for array literals (oh and destructuring assignment) as far as I know (and are required).
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by benaston 11y ago
If Edge is not on approximate feature parity with Chrome (it isn't), then the benchmark is meaningless.
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by benaston 11y ago
No, feminists are annoying because the most vocal ones take a simplistic rather literal view of equality, which is a distortion of the more nuanced truth behind the ideology. Men and women have clear differences which should be celebrated.
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by benaston 11y ago
HR don't want to hold out for a unicorn. They couldn't give two hoots about your skill. Even if they did they wouldn't be able to evaluate it. HR are simply brokers. It is a board-level decision on salary ranges that prevents
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by benaston 11y ago
I think the jury is still out on `class`. I can say that `class` is somewhat "dishonest" both the sense that it makes the language more complicated, under a guise of simplification; and in the sense that it lures developers from c
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by benaston 11y ago
"when you've got a much better language in C#" That's subjective.
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by benaston 11y ago
Both national MPs and EU commissioners are public officials who form public policy that affects citizens' lives. In that much they are comparable. Both procedurally and in scope of effect there will be differences of course (commission
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by benaston 11y ago
Not at all. The question at hand is: do the EU commissioners have a stronger or weaker democratic mandate than national MPs? When considering this question, the vote in the EU parliament is neither here nor there, because the person being v
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by benaston 11y ago
And yet this is based on an untested assumption that political union is the only way to avoid this. Furthermore, you could argue that the EU contributed to the triggering of a new Cold War (hot in the Ukraine) by staging a coup of a democra
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by benaston 11y ago
@germanier and @babatong No, you are both wrong. The democratic mandate for EU commissioners is less strong than for directly elected officials. @matt4077 called out that even Cameron is not elected directly as PM, and that is correct. The
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by benaston 11y ago
It is my understanding that AV was a horrible compromise, desired by no-one (even the smaller parties). Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats was king-maker and part of the coalition (deputy PM) in the last government. With a smaller
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by benaston 11y ago
Your comment re Merkel, Cameron et al is a strawman: just because the existing system of parliamentary democracy is deeply flawed, it does not follow that another even less democratic system is acceptable. You point out that Cameron (for ex
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by benaston 11y ago
Parliamentary democracies are often deeply flawed and in need of reform. That much is obvious (in the UK at any rate). The problem with the EU is that is is even less democratic and hence less accountable than the pre-existing system of n
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Modern JavaScript(medium.com)
2 points by benaston 11y ago|0 comments
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Mixins in JavaScript(medium.com)
3 points by benaston 12y ago|0 comments
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Implementing Inheritance in JavaScript(medium.com)
1 points by benaston 12y ago|0 comments
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“this” in JavaScript(medium.com)
2 points by benaston 12y ago|0 comments
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Closures in JavaScript. Or, How JavaScript is Like a Super-Villain.(medium.com)
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by benaston 12y ago
Yeah IE11 is fine, if you want basic ACID compliance and ES5 support, but this is 2015 and Chrome and FF leave IE in the dust when it comes to modern (i.e. as of 2015 modern) features like WebRTC, shadow DOM, web components, 3D transforms,
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by benaston 12y ago
But as most corporate monkeys know, Windows includes a snipping tool already with an annotation feature.
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by benaston 12y ago
The use case presented was the sharing of a news article. If I email a colleague a hyperlink to an article it would be highly unusual to experience link-rot in the expected timeframe for them to open the email and click the link. I might ex

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