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One of the reasons Adventure Time is so interesting is that it manages a delicate balance - it is both your typical "kids cartoon" but also manages to appeal to an older audience. Most cartoons try to do this by slipping in pop culture references/jokes that will just go over children's heads - and AT does this too, there's a lot of literary and pop culture references; for example there's a great episode with Jonathan Frakes guest starring that heavily references the ST:TNG episode "inner light".

However, AT also goes beyond that.

It deals with themes like love, rejection, death, identity, and morality in very real and mature ways...but also in a way that children can relate to and laugh at it. There are quite a lot of episodes that deal with the main characters struggle with an unrequited love and heartache. An incarnate Death and "the cosmic owl" are reoccurring characters. One major arc is one of the characters struggle with (magic induced) mental illness. The show itself takes place after a nuclear holocaust has ripped apart the planet and mutated the inhabitants (referred to in the show as "the mushroom war").

One episode for example, the main character finds a bag full of miniature figurines in the form of all his friends. When he takes them out of the bag, they come to life. He becomes fixated on them. Obsessively pairing them up and taking them apart to observe their reactions. He takes the miniature version of his best friends girlfriend and pairs her up with another man. He stops sleeping, he just sits surveilling this tiny world he has become god of. It's depicted very much as a descent into madness.

There are quite a lot of episodes like this, and while they often get heavy and dark they never lose their young audience or fail to maintain an overall uplifting and optimistic tone.

I wish I had a show like this when I was young.

It's not hard too eat so that it only costs ~5$ a day depending on your situation. Most simple meals like a sandwich or some pasta can be made for ~1$ and a little more effort. Where I live in Philly a little ad hoc produce stand sets up right down the street regularly with very cheap produce. 5$ would buy lettuce, some apples, carrots, potatoes, etc - enough for a couple days. I can go to the Italian market and get cheap rolls and meat. The Amish and Mennonites have markets around. There are grocery stores where I can get bags of beans, rice, and other staples very cheap.

The problem is if you're in a situation where it's like you get 5$ at the beginning of each day, you can't buy in bulk and save. Likewise if you live in a "food desert" it's harder to shop.

Higgs is looking for contributors.

Higgs is a JIT compiler for JavaScript targeting x86-64 platforms. The core is written in D, but most of the runtime/libs are written in JS.

You can contribute by testing, suggesting features, submitting PRs with new libraries (graphics, sqlite, etc), more tests, bug-fixes, documentation, and more.

We're very welcoming and will assist anyone wanting to contribute. Come hang out with us in #higgsjs on freenode (heck, come hang out even if you don't want to contribute) or check out the issues on Github:

https://github.com/maximecb/Higgs

Hearing "DHTML" reminded me of Thomas Brattli's old site[1] and it's successor dhtmlcentral. I learned quite a bit from those sites in the late 90s early 00s.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20001019064945/http://www.bratta...

Hang out on forums, #javascript, etc some time and see how many people have problems because their understanding of the DOM begins and ends with the jQuery API. I see it all the time. I've seen big-name sites bug out or slow to a crawl because some dev wasn't thinking about what was going on behind their $()'s.

The DOM API isn't very large/complicated, and it shouldn't be hard to MOSTLY memorize it. It isn't a "gotcha" question though, a good interviewer is not gonna ding the heck out of you if your forget bits of it (most web devs do spend most of their time with jQuery, YUI, etc after all) - it's about whether you understand what's going on behind the scenes.

The Google search is only mentioned once in passing in the text, and in the image.

Their argument is based on the number of users/groups on lift. This is of course, also pretty flimsy - but I don't think its being presented as scientifically rigorous; just as an observation that many people are trying to give up Facebook (and apparently having some trouble).

Is it ethical to get up and get a cup of coffee on the clock? Stop and chat with coworkers? Browse the Internet?

It's unreasonable for employers to expect you to spend 100% of your time 100% focused on the 'task at hand'. You need to have a little downtime on the clock for reflection, thinking, stress relief, etc especially if you are a programmer. Frankly if I was an employer I'd be happy if you were using it try and keep sharp as opposed to looking at lolcats or something (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Of course this has to be "within reason", and an employer is well within their rights to decide that certain activities are too disruptive and ban them. Violating an explicit ban would be somewhat unethical.

Another question: is it a polite thing to do? There are certain general and company specific social norms for what and how much of that stuff is acceptable.

So I would say go for it, with the caveat that you shouldn't abuse the privilege.

This is for employees ofc. As a freelancer I try to be very conscientious about stopping the clock when I feel I'm not adding enough value for the client. I get paid a higher rate than I probably would otherwise, and therefore don't screw around. I do sometimes bill for reading that's done for research for the project, just as I don't stop the clock every time I look up something in the docs - but I do this as little as possible and always with the clients understanding.

To be clear, the specific part you mention is fair...but I don't think anyone would object to that.

The part where it seems somewhat unfair is where the director asked weixiyen to give up pay they were entitled to.

It's fair enough to ask for a favor ("hey, do you mind using up your vacay days before you leave?"), but you should make clear that it is a favor and what it entails - it sounds like that may not have done in this instance.

You may be "thinking backwards". If their language doesn't have this feature, or their society these concepts...it's because they don't really run into these situations to the point that it becomes detrimental.

I don't know much about primitive tribes in the amazon, but I don't imagine that their traditional lifestyle involves very large flocks of sheep.

My family bred dogs growing up so we always had a good number (~10) running around. When I let them out and in, I don't recall ever counting but rather ticking off names. Even then I don't think it was generally a conscious listing, but rather a scanning and the ability to "feel" that someone was missing.

For a very long time (well into adulthood) I had no concept of the proper order of the months. I could recognize month names, and with great difficulty name them all...but not their proper order. I had missed that section in school and it never really came up. When it did it really blew peoples minds for some reason. Eventually, I did come across it enough that I learned it.

I know nothing of the tribe in question but I don't think it's that much of a stretch that if they have things like a communal attitude towards property, few pieces of property they consider valuable, small flocks of livestock, etc... the issue may simply never come up.

Kudos on being a bigger person than me; I'd be tempted to name names.

It currently has a loose target of ES5. It has some features like Object.create, but not others like property descriptors or Function.prototype.bind.

One of my hopes for this post is to encourage interest in Higgs, and ideally contributions. One aspect of that would be feedback that would help in evaluating and prioritizing what missing features to implement.

That's the premise of the article we're discussing. They mention that experiment specifically.

There are directors who have scored one or many of their own films, such as John Carpenter, Robert Rodriguez, and Clint Eastwood. It's true that excepting the ones who have a strong music background director-composers usually produce somewhat simpler and critically not-acclaimed scores but they also often end up working well. Look at the Halloween theme; it's a very simple melody but it somehow captured the mood of the film and people's imaginations.

I agree with your general point though, a collaboration between the "user" and "expert" will generally produce something superior; but sometimes there can even be a little bit of a liability having the other party around.

The school teacher thing is a poor example though - that's just marketing trying to make an appeal to authority. Something like if a teacher had designed a desk or chair would be better because their job gives them insight into that as opposed to say, a mail carrier.

To be fair this guy is probably not as far out there as you might think. Consider for one that quite a lot of people believe in transubstantiation; a bit of bread and wine becomes the body of their savior. I don't think this is too far from that, this doll becomes in some way a real companion for him.

Likewise, his little invented back-stories for his dolls are not so materially different than say my relationship with my girlfriend. I don't and can't truly know my girlfriends existence; everything I know about her is basically a story I tell myself based on the things she says to me and what I assume or surmise myself. If it turned out one of these days that she had been completely and totally dishonest with me about who she was - everything I thought I knew about her was not true - in a lot of ways our relationship would have been just as much a fantasy as Davecats.

I'm not prepared to go in for it myself, or even consider it totally healthy and desirable...but he seems to have a good handle on it and I wouldn't be too quick to judge him. Maybe he is a little nuts, but so are most people I have met.

I think most Russian-speaking programmers are intelligent enough to understand it's a foreign name, especially since it's written as "kal" and not "кал".

> I.e. name shouldn't sound funny obscene in any of the major languages.

My point is that this is probably more difficult than you realize.

It's also pointless; if you're the maker of a consumer product (like a soda) and you expect to market it in Russian-speaking countries, then of course you need to watch out for such things. Something like this which is only incidentally used by a small portion of technically literate Russian speakers - it's not really worth bothering with.

Sure, it would be a poor name for a new soda you plan to market in Russian-speaking countries; but probably not really worth mentioning here. I'm sure you realize, but lots of Russian words/phrases sound funny (or obscene) in English too - this is true of every language and vice versa. Naming things is hard enough already without trying to cover what it might sound like in every major language.

JS supports integers; it just doesn't have an integer type so you can't always store, operate, etc on them efficiently (though a smart engine can do some of that for you). It has bitwise manipulation operations which treat the Number as a 32 bit int. There are also Typed Arrays which make it easier to work on raw binary data. Though yes, it can occasionally get a little finicky trying to interface a high level dynamic language with lower level stuff.

Anyway, for this I'm sure there will be a lot of libraries that handle that for you and expose a fairly high level api; like the blinking led in the example.