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Huh? Source that they're migrating to Electron?

Sort of crazy to me that the budget for SF is $9B. Boston, which is around 200k people smaller, has a budget of <3B, which seems like a huge gap. What kind of services does SF provide that a pretty comparable city like Boston doesn't?

> Kotlin has things Scala doesn't, like efficient optionality in the type system

Honest question - what is it that makes Scala's optionality inefficient compared to Kotlin? I'd never heard of this before.

Honestly, I'm starting to feel like the lack of comments from European leaders about the infringement of non-American's data might be because they know they might be the next to get caught with their hands in the honey pot. I can't tell if I'm just starting to be part of the tin-foil hat crowd though.

What is a good resource for understanding the DOM/query selectors and their performance (JS and CSS selectors)? All that I know about it is just through word of mouth and it would be great to look at a resource that covers these things. Also, is document.createElement('div') really much faster than $("<div></div>")? Just checked and a lot of well-respected JS libs use (including Backbone) use the jQuery version.

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Recently decided to use Backbone as a JSMVC Framework on my team. Although I looked at Ember and Angular, which obviously both have many more features than backbone out of the box, We chose to use Backbone because it seems to have such a large and vibrant community behind it - seems like angular and ember are both lacking in this respect.

However, as our Backbone application grew in complexity, we noticed that Backbone is so bare in terms of functionalities that we had to build our own half-baked framework on top of it to make up for the gaps.

I think the Backbone project needs to make Backbone's intentional feature sparseness clear. I've come to realize that backbone is more of a library which provides a basis to make a client-side framework rather than a something that can be used standalone by app developers.

If I could go back and change our original choice, I definitely would have gone with one of the Backbone-derived frameworks (chaplin, marionette) or just gone with something more fully-featured like angular. While backbone is beautiful and elegant for small projects, it just doesn't provide much convenience as a stand-alone library for larger applications.

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I mostly agree with your points, although I personally think that the JavaScript ecosystem is maturing quite rapidly through node and amd.

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The interesting point that I got from this article is that the old aristocracy had a sense of responsibility to society and acknowledged the fact that they were privileged. Now that we're in a society where people tend to not think of themselves as wealthy or privileged, how does this self-ignorant meritocratic elite know that they do have a responsibility?

Sort of OT: Does anyone know any good examples (on github or otherwise) of a dotfiles repo that can easily be installed on a machine? I've been wanting to do this for a while, but I'm sort of a noob on symlinking and such

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Am I missing something here? As far as I know the MPAA is not a U.S. Government institution. It's a trade organization. Although what the MPAA is doing internationally and domestically is disgusting, I don't think that this is a case of the American government meddling in Aussie affairs. It's more like the netizens of America, Australia, and many other countries are being attacked by the MPAA.

Ha. Seems like it was pulled from the app store (Probably because of the push bug). Nicely done.