thejaredhooper

Can someone explain to me the use of a transpiler like this? I'm a novice and I can't think of any personal use cases

The actual quote is "premature emphasis on efficiency is a big mistake which may well be the source of most programming complexity and grief."

The 'summarized' catch-phrase always bothers me; the choice between optimized code and inefficient code is always clear to me.

you still can't split working windows vertically... which will drive me nuts with my vertical monitor!

>some popular top investor could write a blog post shaming me and ruining my reputation for other startups. Not professional if you ask me

I think it would have been more professional to state, in neutrality, the status of the legal proceedings - rather than implicitly accuse the man of being greedy by refusing a "generous" settlement.

Is this sensationalized? A single bullet-point makes me nervous. All of those together makes me feel smothered...

> Reading news coverage of all this five and a half years later is kind of like reading old infatuation-era emails with a much older ex-boyfriend you never think about—but who in hindsight was kind of a pedophile.

Well that's one way to remind me that this is a VICE article.

> the idea that I need socks that can talk to my TV

when you put it that way I really don't see the appeal anymore

> {zIndex: 999999}

Something so simple as this CSS property shows you the intent behind the code. They're basically saying "screw every bit of content on this page."

Is there any reason to be worried about the ice caps harboring viruses that could potentially wipe us out?

I've been thinking about implementing a sort of slideshow like this.

I could definitely see this being extended, contained within a frame and used (by intercepting and mimicking scroll actions) in order to present a slideshow in a smooth, consistent manner.

By itself, it's novel. But extended, I could see a few uses for it.

Interesting idea, degrades pretty well (for text only), and I enjoyed scrolling through smoothly with middle-click.

I think you're closer to the truth than the author. Though it may be moral, in a sense, to keep ads away from tragic stories - I think that it's clearly in the interest of the advertisers to keep their brands separated from "negative" stories so they don't inadvertently sabotage themselves.

I'll read more into it like you suggest.

I think that she just might've just been a bad egg, given the facts presented in the article.

Reprehensible.

Do you have any links/resources for the subject matter you're covering in this comment? I'd like to learn more about what you're saying, and I can't seem to wrap my head around what it is you're trying to express with penny bids.