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I think one of the primary benefits to ELM, etc is the typechecking, which you lose if you use FFI to call outside JS.

Once you dont need jquery and you actually have a standard library, 2 of the largest requirements to the existing ecosystem (JQuery and Underscore.js) are no longer needed.

Elm looks to handle much of he DOM and events so I doubt you would need React.js or Angular, which just leaves your datastore.

(to better put it, much of the packages in Javascript are there because the language itself is insufficient to describe DOM interactions. Elm was created explicitly for the web thus removes the need for many packages)

Not advocating for suicide but playing devils advocate...

I would imagine that bank robbers the moment they get caught instantly regret it. But that doesn't prevent the ones that got away from completing their goal and not regretting it.

People who fail suicide often have HUGE amounts of personal anguish because of the police, hospital, family, etc. all judging them from the suicide attempt.

I think its easy to confuse regret of the action over all and regret that you tried the action and failed. But I imagine there are some who genuinely regret their attempts.

I'm not saying that suicide isn't associated with mental health, but when I read this I got a vague feeling of a tautology.

If we define the components of mental illness as being suicidal, obviously that would lead you to classify all suicidals as mentally ill.

For a long time being homosexual was seen as a mental illness and those (probably most) administering treatments saw themselves as helping them and the patient would have a higher quality of life after they were cured. The doctors thought the patient was harming themselves and their family by participating in lewd activities.

Not trying to say one thing or the other about suicide. I just think it is interesting what we consider a mental illness and why and why its dangerous to go to the "mental illness" (I hate this phrasing) reasoning right away.

Or the best schools are typically in affluent suburbs vs the city.

I was on Tmobile for 3 years and I would say it is a budget carrier through and through. You don't go to it because it has good signal, good customer service, will work on road trips, etc. You get it because its cheaper than the rest.

I honestly thought my tmobile service wasnt bad. They gave me a free router (well lent me) and "signal booster"

The bad? On both of those things, when I went to tmobile store to return them, after about a 30 minute wait they said "You can't return it here, it came from corporate. You have to mail it"

Corporate said "No they should return it to the store."

Went back to the store and the store manager wouldnt accept it because he said when he would send them to corporate they would mark them as unreturned and charge the customer.

Went to another store. Same thing. Said corporate messed up returns.

There seems to be a very big disconnect between Tmobile stores and corporate. So much so that I canceled my service.

I think the difference is, when you called someone in the 90s to ask to say borrow a cup of sugar:

  Call neighbor. 1 minute of small talk
  Ask the question
  Get answer
  more small talk.
  Say goodbye.

Today it would be (via txt):

  A: can i borrow a c of sugar?
  B: y. come over
  A: k

A lot of communication happens through text messages which dramatically reduces the number of words you say to another human being.

I think what is more damaging is that most people can solve their own problems without ever having to rely on neighbors or even family. Cell phones, uber, and other services remove the need to ask for help. You don't really ask people for directions, ask the time, find out how to do something.

Yes. people still talk to neighbors, family, friends, etc. But it happens much less and in much different contexts. For instance the vast majority of people would not call their neighbor to check on their kids because they are stuck in a storm.

Yeah. When Apple claims to have invented something, they don't mean that they invented the very first instance of it, they mean that they invented a practical and transformative consumer implementation, which depending on who you are can be viewed as just as important (because what use is a technology if it can't be used on a practical level?)

Is it really "easy credit"? My coworker just got done with getting a mortgage in San Mateo and it really seemed like a long drawn out processes with significant hurdles in terms of paperwork and documentation along with a requirement to put down $300k on a $1mil house.

I've been told by several people that it is significantly harder to get a mortgage today than in 2007/2008.

Perhaps he was making it harder than it really is but a mortgage is the hardest consumer credit to get.

Most have the barber come to them or have a private barber in the building. My office has a separate room and a barber comes in every other week to cut hair.

My experience with groupon involves two different times. Both times involved me calling the business and being immediately asked if I had a Groupon. I don't think this was a groupon only number, but the business pretty much runs entirely off Groupon. One was to have my carpets cleaned when they arrived they said the Groupon was for using water only (it wasn't steam cleaning just regular) and I had to pay extra to actually get the carpets clean. All said and done it was the same price as going with someone else from the beginning.

To be fair the commit time and the authorship time are not the same. You can author something at work and wait to get home to commit it and vice versa.

I'm in the opposite camp. I don't like NoSQL because of the flexible schema. I have to build tools to make sure my data is consistent or have error handling. Migrations ensure that whenever I pull down a version of the code, the database is in the right state.

I don't see too many use cases where having being schemaless is a good thing outside of infrastructure ease of use. If you want to store arbitrary data in a table, BJSON in postgres is very efficient and flexible in that regard, while allowing you to have a schema for the rest of the data (e.g. if you are collecting data you probably want a schema for things like name, email, timestamp, etc and then have a BJSON field to jam in whatever you need.)

Thats a false dichotomy. There have always been fiber providers, its just that Google Fiber is the "sexy" one that people look to for salvation instead of locally campaigning for fiber (which has been successful in quite a number of cities across the USA).

Cell towers don't need to be a freestanding structure. There are tons of micro towers hanging out on existing buildings.

Well just looking at Meetup.com

Django (excluding python specific): MV: 2231, NYC: 2120, Austin: 41, Chicago: 126

RoR (excluding ruby only) MV: 4119, NYC: 4390, Austin: 158, Chicago: 417

I could probably go deeper but at least from a glance it is easy to see why starting in NYC or SF would be preferable.