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Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance camera, network attached storage device, or home automation gizmo, only to find that it secretly and constantly phones home to a vast peer-to-peer (P2P) network run by the Chinese manufacturer of the hardware. "The instrument (the telescreen it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely."
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Torvalds made the revelation in a rare interview at the TED conference in Vancouver saying that Linux started off as a personal project that he intended to keep to himself. No take backsies!
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I believe in using “the best tool for the job,” too. As you say, the best tool must be determined in the context of your particular problem. I look forward to the enthusiastic responses
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IMO:
Yes - if "the job" is client side visual effects on HTML that are beyond HTML5/CSS.
No for everything else.
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The problem is that Javascript is the onlytool for the job.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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You could write a plug-in 
More seriously, various transpilers are available which address JavaScript's foibles. More promising still is the Web Assembly effort, which will finally enable other languages to target the browser, side-stepping JavaScript altogether.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: More promising still is the Web Assembly effort, which will finally enable other languages to target the browser
Web COBOL, anyone? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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We're thinking of moving towards TypeScript for precisely these reasons. Whilst Javascript is great at what it does, it's not the easiest tool to work with.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Coffeescript is one of the worst. TypeScript actually spits out some rather clean and concise JavaScript, from what I have seen and tried.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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It's awesome when you want to show someone how not to make a language
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The best example of that is surely PHP 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Google Cloud Debugger, which lets you inspect the state of an application at any code location without stopping or slowing it down, now has an enhanced UI, expanded language support and debugging from more places. For when you have so many bugs, you need the scalability of the cloud
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Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) empowers developers by providing a modular toolkit based on modern JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 design and development principles. Because when you want open source web tools, think of the company suing people for infringing on their APIs
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An extension toolkit for JavaScript, how come no one thought of that before?
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No, they mean 5 degrees of freedom[^]. Math weirds language worse than coding. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Bad link.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Not sure how that happened, try now.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That issue seems to be a long standing bug in the site that Chris and the team cannot figure out.
Basically, if you type some text, select it, and paste a link with the same last word, that last word will be truncated on the URL.
I sense a rather nasty bit of code doing that.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Using nanostructured glass
I thought glass was actually a liquid.
Marc
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..his hospital paid hackers a ransom of $17,000 in bitcoins to regain control of their computer systems.. Is that with or without VAT?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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...and promoted their IT managers for being so well prepared?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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