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by jmesserly 11y ago
This is addressed in the article: > The good news is electricity is getting cleaner. Since 2013, the world has been adding more electricity-generating capacity from wind and solar than from coal, natural gas, and oil combined. with a lin
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by jmesserly 11y ago
Well in 2014 they did finally repeal the rule that prevented the network hardware from being installed: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/seattle-approves-bill-allows-fi... Then they fixed the TV franchise issues: http:&#x
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by jmesserly 12y ago
I'm not an economist either, but applying textbook theory from school, it could help. A lot depends on the size, and making sure it isn't too big to discourage employment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_in
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by jmesserly 12y ago
> This is just a big lie thrown in my face! > please correct me if I'm wrong!!! You're wrong. Deflation is basic economics. If you take a college macroeconomics course it will be covered. It's hard to summarize in a way
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by jmesserly 12y ago
They're planning to use AtScript to transpile to ES6 and Dart by extending the ES6 transpiler called Traceur (source: https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/11YUzC-1d0V1... ). The basic issu
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by jmesserly 12y ago
Aha! Good call on the ByRef. Totally had forgot about that. Yeah, that was very important for correctness.
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by jmesserly 12y ago
Hah. Or Tomas. Not sure. The S.L.E.Interpreter is after my time :)
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by jmesserly 12y ago
Funny, I had something to do with this code back in the day! I'm guessing it was a copy+paste bug and they copied from the LambdaCompiler, which uses StrongBox<T> for its closed-over parameters[1], since StrongBox<T>.Value
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by jmesserly 12y ago
Regarding performance: it will get much better once browser have implemented http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-shadow-dom-20140617/ . Shadow DOM is not easy to polyfill (especially because of some issues in how the
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by jmesserly 12y ago
Wow, seriously? I've been using Beta and not noticed any breakage (but that doesn't mean there isn't any). Do you have any more context?
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by jmesserly 12y ago
disclaimer: I'm a huge fan of TypeScript and the folks working on it, but now work on Dart and JS stuff at Google, so I'm probably biased in all kinds of ways :) The way I like to think of it: If the main thing you want in JavaScr
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by jmesserly 12y ago
fyi, I think most of my original complaints in that bug are either fixed, or largely mitigated. I don't think we've had any issues for over a year now (since Dart 1.0). I still wish it was even more bulletproof, but it isn't
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by jmesserly 12y ago
That should work as of this week with Polymer's paper-elements: http://www.polymer-project.org/docs/elements/material.html , available for Dart at https://github.com/dart-lang/paper-elemen
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by jmesserly 12y ago
> How well does Dart interact with JavaScript, especially libraries that are asynchronously loaded? I know that the Dart compiler is a whole-program optimizer, and I get the impression that Dart wants to own all the code on the page. Gre
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by jmesserly 13y ago
Chrome has certificate pinning, see http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/new-chromium-security-featu... : "In addition in Chromium 13, only a very small subset of CAs have the authority to vouch for Gmail (and the
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by jmesserly 13y ago
> Maybe I'm just being a curmudgeon, but I think Google is playing the same 'embrace and extend' card as Microsoft did back in the day, just for slightly different reasons. I see this meme a lot, but I don't get it how the analogy is su
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by jmesserly 13y ago
I think "confusing" in this context doesn't mean that the concepts are hard to enumerate or understand, it means they're hard to apply with low error rate in a practical setting. I don't have a problem with X selection+paste if I'm just usi
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by jmesserly 13y ago
yeah, if you're running directly on a VM for the language (e.g. JS on a JS engine, Dart on a Dart engine) you wouldn't need source maps for debugging, unless you are using some other tool that is doing source->source transforms for you
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by jmesserly 13y ago
Yeah, tone can be hard to guess from text. Figured the link would be helpful either way :) disclaimer: I'm on the Dart team (libraries, not core language/VM/dart2js). As exciting as it would be to have Dart VM in Chrome, personally I hope t
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by jmesserly 13y ago
Yeah. It would be the same problem that WebSQL had: http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/ As much as I was sad to see it go, I sympathize with their problem. If you just have a single C/C++ implementation with no spec, it's a lot harder to kn
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by jmesserly 13y ago
This is addressed in the FAQ: http://www.chromium.org/blink/developer-faq#TOC-Is-this-just... http://www.chromium.org/blink#new-features Additionally: we have had experimental Dart+Chromium builds for a long time, they use a different a
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by jmesserly 13y ago
> [...] he assumes the outrage by the high intensity users is proportional to the perceived value Right, that's the point. This is a common style in economic blogs. They often follow the form: assuming some set of data, what are the eco
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by jmesserly 14y ago
Oh please. Wanting someone held accountable for their negligence and overreach is not a "lynch mob".
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by jmesserly 14y ago
Dart also has more sane operators (e.g. ==), no implicit conversions, no prototypes, types are not mutable, scopes are not mutable (including globals), a real integer type, lack of "arguments", lack of "eval"/injected <script> tags,
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by jmesserly 14y ago
You can get the source code right from github: https://github.com/dart-lang/bleeding_edge
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by jmesserly 14y ago
Agree on widgets. Have you seen the Web Components effort? http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/i... It's an attempt to standardize widgets at the browser level. Really cool stuff. It's based on ShadowDOM, which is a
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by jmesserly 14y ago
Ummm, what? http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/building-and-test... Source: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/native_client/trunk/src/nativ... That wasn't hard to find.
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by jmesserly 15y ago
Agree with parent and gp. Not only that, the article lacks an Econ 101 understanding of microeconomics. Most markets have a few big firms because of the pervasive effect of economies of scale[1]--generally, bigger firms have lower cost per
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by jmesserly 15y ago
This is a common misconception. The US is the world's largest manufacturer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States#Ma... Now, it's true that as a percent of GDP, China is the largest manufacturer. But per capita it is e
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by jmesserly 15y ago
The difference is MS stopped having people work on IE once Netscape was out of the picture. It's not like Firefox would just stop being developed. It's an open source project, after all.

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