Month: February 2017

Did I ever mention that I was not a fan of this man?

Did I ever mention that I was not a fan of this man?

Originally shared by David Cameron Staples

“Mr Turnbull said Mr Shorten was a “would-be tribute of the people” and accused him of rising to prominence by networking with prominent Melbourne businessmen like Richard Pratt.”

OK, allowing for the ignorance of the reporter, who is probably doing the best he can without a Classical education, am I right that Turnbull’s greatest insult to the leader of the Labor party is that he’s a Tribunis Plebis, a “Tribune of the Plebs”?

Does he realise that the highest office open to non-noble Romans, the office which was a check on the aristocracy on behalf of the everyday Romans, is what he’s just used as an insult?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune_of_the_Plebs

And this being in his own defence against charges of being too much of a multi-millionaire Tory to be able to know what most Australians think. Alongside the also awesome defence of “you’re just saying that because you’re jealous that you don’t live in a mansion overlooking the Harbour.”

Let me paraphrase Turnbull’s argument: Shut up you fucking proles, and get back in your place. We will tell you how this country works, because that’s our right. You will do what you’re told by your betters.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-08/turnbull-and-shorten-trade-barbs-during-question-time/8252540

That’s because people are writing applications rather than documents with this stuff.

That’s because people are writing applications rather than documents with this stuff. The separation between markup and code (which makes sense for static documents) has been bogus for some time in web apps. If you’re not mixing HTML with JavaScript in JSX then you’re using some kind of domain specific language in your markup (ng-if, ng-repeat etc.) in AngularJS.

Originally shared by Xah Lee

This is worth mulling. Need complete analysis. What went wrong? or was it stupid hacker advice to begin with? #JavaScript

$Yahoo – $Alibaba = $0

$Yahoo – $Alibaba = $0

“In the past 30 years, America has had 13 wars at a cost of $14.2 trillion. That’s where the money went.” He also questioned America’s decision to bankroll Wall Street after the 2008 financial crash, arguing the money would have been better spent in other areas.

“What if they had spent part of that money on building up their infrastructure, helping white-collar and blue-collar workers? You’re supposed to spend money on your own people.”

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/jack-ma-america-has-wasted-its-wealth?utm_content=buffer66de8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer

A series of five articles introducing Vue.

A series of five articles introducing Vue. If you are an Angular 1.0 developer and considering a move to Angular 2.0, you might consider stepping off that train and picking up Vue instead. Performance wise it’s a lot like React but philosophically it shares a lot with Angular 1.0 (but with a lot less of the bad stuff, i.e. less kruft and bad decisions).

One of my favorite things about Vue is that it takes all of the successful things from other frameworks, and incorporates them without getting disorganized. Some examples that stand out for me:

A virtual DOM with reactive components that offer the View layer only, props and a Redux-like store similar to React.

Conditional rendering, and services, similar to Angular.

Inspired by Polymer in part in terms of simplicity and performance, Vue offers a similar development style as HTML, styles, and JavaScript are composed in tandem.

Some benefits I’ve enjoyed over Vue’s competitors: cleaner, more semantic API offerings, slightly better performance than React, no use of polyfills like Polymer, and an isolated, less opinionated view than Angular, which is an MVC.

https://css-tricks.com/intro-to-vue-1-rendering-directives-events/