ChaoticGood's comments

It is a great idea to revisit public policies that were put into place at the same time Doctors were advertising Cigarettes as healthy. Water is a precious resource and should be protected as such.

"Generally, in Germany fluoridation of drinking water is forbidden. The relevant German law allows exceptions to the fluoridation ban on application. The argumentation of the Federal Ministry of Health against a general permission of fluoridation of drinking water is the problematic nature of compuls[ory] medication." (Gerda Hankel-Khan, Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany, September 16, 1999).[0]

Germany halted its water fluoridation in the 1970s and France never started.[1]

[0] http://www.slweb.org/50reasons.html [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/17/water-fluoridat...

Also, I recommend checking out the QuantStart project started by Michael Halls-moore. Really handy if you are using the Oanda Api. Plus, there exists some great articles on the quantstart site about the creation of the code. https://github.com/mhallsmoore/qsforex

You might also enjoy Andreas ‘Kungi’ Klein explanation of Hiccup in his talk titled "Frameworkless Web Development in Clojure."

Source is from the ClojureD conference in Berlin, Germany and Published on Feb 23, 2015

Highly recommend watching and it is only 32 minutes in duration.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LghX4oDWcY

Polymer Starter Kit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9630780

A starting point for building web applications with Polymer 1.0 Included out of the box:

Polymer, Paper and Iron elements Material Design layout Routing with Page.js Unit testing with Web Component Tester Offline-first setup through Service Worker elements End-to-end Build Tooling (including Vulcanize)

Much thanks to Rob Dodson, Addy Osmani and at al the Polymer Team.

I wouldn't make the mistake of mixing cheap with value. What you value might just be cheap but more often then not it is a bargain.

The first time I drank with a multi millionaire we were having a jammy value buy called Seven Deadly Zins and Monkey Bay Sauvignon Blanc. Those two data points were his sessionable bargain buys and I loved the taste too.

Personally, I have also enjoyed a bottle of Opus One but later on discovered those same taste characteristics in a Spanish Garnacha blend I believe to be re labeled as Atteca. I should have bought a case of that stuff it was an amazing find and had legs for days.

My findings are that below a tenner is cheap stuff waiting to become a vinaigrette of regret in form of buyers remorse. Around the 14usd mark is where value van be found. Such as Trader Joe's seasonal reserve offering they put out for New Years. When a vintner puts their name on the offering and takes the care to select the best grapes of the season then you can taste the bargain.

Wanting to taste a bottle of Amarone, my next bargain finding adventure has led me here: Father and Son Amarone Tasting Episode #800 Wine Library TV 2010 17:00 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9wUxIdIosg TL;DW 2005 Tommasi Amarone

gandi.net + Private domain registration + 1-year free SSL certificate

namecheap.com + great prices + good reputation

1and1.com + Best prices + Responsive Customer Service - User interface ( Scratch that. They just did redesign and it looks great )

The new feature Microsoft is offering allows their Egde browser to be divergent enough to stand out. All while allowing a push for a more dynamic web experience where the user is not just a content consumer, but a content creator. This ability to remix content is the future of a more collaborative web. It is also reminiscent of Genius push for annotations. I actually really like the product vision MS is offering here and look forward to actually using Edge.

The future of the web is a real time collaborative medium that dynamically shapes around us. We have been traveling down the info super highway in an analogous individual experience to being in a car. The future of the web will be more of collaborative group experience of traveling down the info super highway in a magic bus. Given this new feature allows us to get one step forward to that remixable future.

My personal tips are to use daylight color temperature bulbs for lighting. Type with a rolled towel around the neck for reducing next strain and enforcing better posture.

I was just reading this guys blog post[1] titled "A Programmer's Ergonomic Workstation" and he mentions he uses these amber tinted glasses called gunners[2]

[1] http://markshust.com/2014/03/31/programmers-ergonomic-workst... [2] http://www.gunnars.com/how-they-work/

Technical challenges are for technical people to solve and not the EU. Last time the EU attempted to solve a technical problem with legislation we all got the mandatory cookie educational program.

Of course said theoretical voting app as mention above would have to be voted in before people could use it. Think somewhere in the states recently there was a campaign to elect representative that would be informed how to vote by people who would use a twitter like system to interface with the politician. Thus adding more a scientific consensus to form with the aid of direct democracy.

I love this! I think in the future we will be focused more on bidding on a plethora of tasks the market has to offer. Assembly so far is the closest thing to that future. I also like https://worklist.net/ The idea that I can fill my day with a variety of new and compelling tasks sounds more awesome than getting stuck in a routine. Sounds like a great way for a junior developer such as myself to gain vital experience.

Governments shouldn't attempt to solve technical problems. Governments should provide an equal playing field for it's citizens.

Google is operating on a level playing field. It just Google competition is not willing to take the risk to run the proverbial ball of innovation into a new uncharted territories of the search game.

Who is to say governments themselves are not monopolies that could use some form of healthy competition. I would love to replace my congress representative an incumbent of 20 years with a more efficient direct democracy app.

Lets not forget that the usage of javascript correlates with need to target the omnipresence of browser and not for merits of javascripts idioms or design pattern paradigms.

Javascript is a great hacker language. All the improvements as stated above will extend the capacity of js to quickly hack up mvp apps. With that said I think the argument can be made that javascript was never designed from the ground up to support this new omnipresent realtime persistent application platform.

For me the question remains to be seen answered if a server that was designed the ground up to be a server such as netty offers a more stable solution then node.js

I think some might say that ES6 is like putting lip stick on a pig therefore patching up JS to keep evolving as more expressive language.

Every time I run NPM install I wonder what kinds of incidental complexities I am I getting myself into. Then dred if I have learn yet another build system. Every time I run NPM I think of an old Jim Breuer joke [1] -- NPM is the "tequila" in the JS party of complexity. ASM.js is amazing, but are we getting a little too drunk on our technologies. ASM.js just might be amazing koolaid when it comes to the sobering decision to build something from "the feet up" to serve on purpose and serve it well. JS can be the jack of all trades and master of none and that can be a bad thing. One thing is for sure JS is really fun, but I would not go making a stock market exchange out a javascript codebase.

Speed is not the only performance metric out there. Think stability is often overlooked for having more power over more control. The Influenza in JS world is not spaghetti code but the more harder to grok house of cards library dependencies. This is just my amateur opinion on observations as go further down the rabbit hole of my learning to code journey.

TL;DR JS is a great hacker language but drink responsible when it comes to importing incidental complexity of additional libraries.

[1] Jim Breuer Just For Laughs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8dvpsVEJEQ [2] "The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

Thanks for that.

Alan Kay has a novel sense of depth perception.

400 mg = too much

200 mg = too little

Thanks for Cursive. Works great and right out of the box too with no surprises.

I watched this video and then installed it: Getting started in Clojure with IntelliJ, Cursive, and Gorilla part 1: setup http://vimeo.com/103808402

Thanks again. Having tons of fun with it now.

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This is part II of the WEKA MOOC offering. So, cram in the following playlist for Sunday night.

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A) code reuse === isomorphic javascript

B) http://tron.wikia.com/wiki/ISO === isomorphic javascript

C) trivial pursuit of a buzz word === isomorphic javascript

D) All of the above.

Check out https://github.com/highfidelity/hifi These ideas go together.