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Re:Apple patent application for retail card transactions on mobile dev... on Friday July 08, 2011 @09:25AM (#2742300)

That's not in layman's terms - it simply repeats the patent claims verbatim with a couple of paragraphs of commentary on how significant this is.

Re:Ask HN: JavaScript is cool again, but the learning resources suck... on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @09:13PM (#2334681)

Thanks. CoffeeScript looks interesting - quite Rubyish, although I'd be a bit worried that by going that route I'm going to end up having to learn both syntaxes (syntaxi ?-) to understand / debug the resulting JavaScript, or to make use of other JS code snippets.

Interesting blog article BTW, and part of the reason I picked JS to have a bash at.

Re:Ask HN: JavaScript is cool again, but the learning resources suck... on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @09:02PM (#2334656)

Thank you! Those first two look very promising. I'd found the Crockford Files (!) before, and whilst they look interesting for historical reasons, much of it was lost on me at this stage.

Ask HN: JavaScript is cool again, but the learning resources suck...

Posted by scooby2 on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @02:53PM
from the ask-hn dept.

...so if you had to recommend one JavaScript learning resource, what would it be?Specifically I'm looking for something suitable for a relative novice (have done some cut & paste programming and messed with RoR), and that focuses on core JavaScript without getting bogged down in DOM stuff (I'll get to that later!).Web searches turn up a bunch of mostly outdated resources or focused on...

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Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @02:11PM (#2333150)

> 50 000 dies from a oil-related incident you would get some serious backslash

30,000 deaths a year from coal pollution in the US alone... Where's the backlash?