I would personally add 2) Websites that are known for mallware, phishing, or otherwise going to mess you up. As I said I don't know if SOPA is good/bad, but my point was that "I support an Open Internet" is a bit of a…
So if a company starts infringing trademarks, polluting search engines en masse, tricking people into buying their rubbish, phishing their details, getting credit card details etc, you'd be fine with that? What about…
You've missed the point. This is an internet hate mob formation. The facts aren't important.
I just think the sky isn't falling that's all. I think the endless posting of articles, protesting, etc etc is a big waste of man hours.
What does "Open Internet" mean though? You can't reasonably support free speech in all instances, just like you can't reasonably support an "open internet" in all instances. There have to be some exceptions. It's the…
Please can we at least try to ensure HN doesn't go the way of Reddit? I'm against SOPA as much as the next guy, but it's a moot issue. Browsers will just release new versions that use alternate DNS systems or get past…
A single currency across countries with such different economies, histories, cultures and languages would still result in the same outcome IMHO.
Their mistake was to join the Euro.
"the idea of a single currency" caused it. A truly terrible idea. Everything that happened was inevitable.
You're conveniently ignoring the fact that the + operator also means string concatenation. Javascript thinks to itself 'hello' string concatenated with a 1 value.
It wasn't. At least in the UK in the 80s, you could go out to any town center, walk into a shop, and buy a "home" computer. They were everywhere.
"hello" - 1 doesn't return NaN out of some sense of exception to trying to subtract from a string. It returns it because parseFloat("hello") = NaN, and NaN - 1 = NaN.
Well, I grew up in a day when it was even easier. * Buy home computer (ZX81) * Turn on * 10 Print "Hello world" * run I don't think the instant gratification and ease of use did me any harm.
That would be ridiculous because then what would 'hello' + 1 equal? Everyone would expect it to equal 'hello1'.
OK here's plain english simple explain... Left hand side is a string, and "+" is string concatenation as well as addition. So '5' + 3 = '53' (String concatenation). Just as "Hello" + 1 would equal "Hello1". The right…
Everyone already has a browser, which includes a profiler, debugger, REPL etc. Not everyone has a c compiler or JDK, or wants the hassle of having to set them up just to start learning.
See my comment below. It's not about being trapped in any mindset. It's about thinking logically. Either '5' - 3 results in an error of some kind, or it evaluates to 2. There is no other logical outcome. Javascript…
No it's not. Logically, the only other thing that could happen is for an "error" or "exception" be thrown when you do '5' - 3 There's really only 2 choices. Either convert the '5' to a number and subtract, or throw a…
Disagree... for example from the link: In JavaScript: '5' + 3 gives '53' Whereas '5' - 3 gives 2 That's just logical and obvious, since "+" is both numerical addition, and string concatenation, but "-" is only numerical…
What's the point? What's the difference between a stream of messages, and a stream of bytes? Nothing.
If it was up to HN users, no website would have advertising on it. HN users are very far removed from normal users. HN feedback is interesting, but it's not as useful as feedback from normal people.
From what I've seen twitter isn't really a social network. The majority on twitter are just consumers for the "celebrities".
> "If Twitter is making money..." Is it? Doesn't seem very likely at all that it is.
I hope you're being sarcastic.
There's being against proposed legislation, and there's "OH no! soon DNS will not work, we need to quickly collect IP addresses. Lets build an alternate DNS system. Lets overthrow the government!". Do you really think…
I would personally add 2) Websites that are known for mallware, phishing, or otherwise going to mess you up. As I said I don't know if SOPA is good/bad, but my point was that "I support an Open Internet" is a bit of a…
So if a company starts infringing trademarks, polluting search engines en masse, tricking people into buying their rubbish, phishing their details, getting credit card details etc, you'd be fine with that? What about…
You've missed the point. This is an internet hate mob formation. The facts aren't important.
I just think the sky isn't falling that's all. I think the endless posting of articles, protesting, etc etc is a big waste of man hours.
What does "Open Internet" mean though? You can't reasonably support free speech in all instances, just like you can't reasonably support an "open internet" in all instances. There have to be some exceptions. It's the…
Please can we at least try to ensure HN doesn't go the way of Reddit? I'm against SOPA as much as the next guy, but it's a moot issue. Browsers will just release new versions that use alternate DNS systems or get past…
A single currency across countries with such different economies, histories, cultures and languages would still result in the same outcome IMHO.
Their mistake was to join the Euro.
"the idea of a single currency" caused it. A truly terrible idea. Everything that happened was inevitable.
You're conveniently ignoring the fact that the + operator also means string concatenation. Javascript thinks to itself 'hello' string concatenated with a 1 value.
It wasn't. At least in the UK in the 80s, you could go out to any town center, walk into a shop, and buy a "home" computer. They were everywhere.
"hello" - 1 doesn't return NaN out of some sense of exception to trying to subtract from a string. It returns it because parseFloat("hello") = NaN, and NaN - 1 = NaN.
Well, I grew up in a day when it was even easier. * Buy home computer (ZX81) * Turn on * 10 Print "Hello world" * run I don't think the instant gratification and ease of use did me any harm.
That would be ridiculous because then what would 'hello' + 1 equal? Everyone would expect it to equal 'hello1'.
OK here's plain english simple explain... Left hand side is a string, and "+" is string concatenation as well as addition. So '5' + 3 = '53' (String concatenation). Just as "Hello" + 1 would equal "Hello1". The right…
Everyone already has a browser, which includes a profiler, debugger, REPL etc. Not everyone has a c compiler or JDK, or wants the hassle of having to set them up just to start learning.
See my comment below. It's not about being trapped in any mindset. It's about thinking logically. Either '5' - 3 results in an error of some kind, or it evaluates to 2. There is no other logical outcome. Javascript…
No it's not. Logically, the only other thing that could happen is for an "error" or "exception" be thrown when you do '5' - 3 There's really only 2 choices. Either convert the '5' to a number and subtract, or throw a…
Disagree... for example from the link: In JavaScript: '5' + 3 gives '53' Whereas '5' - 3 gives 2 That's just logical and obvious, since "+" is both numerical addition, and string concatenation, but "-" is only numerical…
What's the point? What's the difference between a stream of messages, and a stream of bytes? Nothing.
If it was up to HN users, no website would have advertising on it. HN users are very far removed from normal users. HN feedback is interesting, but it's not as useful as feedback from normal people.
From what I've seen twitter isn't really a social network. The majority on twitter are just consumers for the "celebrities".
> "If Twitter is making money..." Is it? Doesn't seem very likely at all that it is.
I hope you're being sarcastic.
There's being against proposed legislation, and there's "OH no! soon DNS will not work, we need to quickly collect IP addresses. Lets build an alternate DNS system. Lets overthrow the government!". Do you really think…