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by ryanatkn 11y ago
"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 the case. And almost certainly, as a second language,
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by ryanatkn 12y ago
Doesn't almost every service leak users at sign up? There are ways around it but I don't think they've very common.
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by ryanatkn 12y ago
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 that I want, informed by comprehensive, mature, real-world use
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by ryanatkn 12y ago
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 sentence, unless it is being di
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by ryanatkn 12y ago
> 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, especially when developing UIs. A proper mixin system (like
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by ryanatkn 12y ago
LiveScript fixes scoping and adds a ton of other nice features including let and const variable declaration keywords.
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by ryanatkn 12y ago
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 readability and I always use curly braces for object
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by ryanatkn 12y ago
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.
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by ryanatkn 12y ago
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 2015 I think Oculus will look like a steal, unless the
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by ryanatkn 12y ago
No, revenue. For example Google's P/E (the equivalent profit ratio) is currently 31.4, and that's not including the control premium.
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by ryanatkn 12y ago
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.
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by ryanatkn 13y ago
Another interesting one is RequireBin[1]. It lets you require npm modules from the browser via browserify and browserify-cdn. [1] http://requirebin.com/
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by ryanatkn 13y ago
I'm curious how the OP found his startup partner(s) and what the irreconcilable differences were.
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by ryanatkn 13y ago
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 throughout most JS codebases. Highland does much of what one would e
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by ryanatkn 13y ago
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.
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by ryanatkn 13y ago
cljs <-> js http://himera.herokuapp.com/synonym.html
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by ryanatkn 13y ago
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 the journal. But the small number and type of animals us
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by ryanatkn 13y ago
"Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal" http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/07/05/ten-years-af...
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by ryanatkn 13y ago
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 lambda. [1] https://github.com/Gozala&
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by ryanatkn 13y ago
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 make our world better, how a car company reduced his 201 mile r
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DIE.js detects IE versions and helps unsupported users find a better browser(github.com)
2 points by ryanatkn 13y ago|1 comments
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by ryanatkn 13y ago
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 plank time, one tick in the cosmic 3D simulation? Of course tha
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by ryanatkn 13y ago
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 is then compared against every other food. The bars for each
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Show HN: Nutrients Per Calorie, a web interface to the USDA foods database(ryanatkn.github.com)
3 points by ryanatkn 13y ago|3 comments
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I'm kickstarting Mydentity, a non-profit peer-to-peer messenger based on WebRTC(kickstarter.com)
1 points by ryanatkn 14y ago|1 comments
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by ryanatkn 14y ago
If anyone is interested I just published a Kickstarter project for Mydentity, which combines WebRTC and Mozilla Persona into a non-profit private messenger. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanatkn/mydentity-is-a-...
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Ascending to Callback Nirvana with React.js(youtube.com)
2 points by ryanatkn 14y ago|0 comments