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Map: U.S. Ranks Near Bottom on Income Inequality - Max Fisher - International - The Atlantic
Perhaps the most politically contentious aspect of President Barack Obama's new proposed legislation, aimed to revive the still-struggling U.S. economy, is $1.5 trillion in tax increases, much of it aimed at wealthy Americans. The White House is calling this "the Buffett rule." Named for super-investor Warren Buffett's complaint that he pays a lower tax rate than some of his most menial wage employees, the legislation would be designed to ensure that anyone making more than $1 million per year will pay at least the same rate as middle-income taxpayers.
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My paradigm is better than your paradigm « Luke Palmer
On twitter I participated in the short snarky exchange:
@stevedekorte – Threads sharing state by default is like variables being global by default.
@luqui – state is like globals :-)
@stevedekorte – @luqui only shared state – which is why FP ultimately fails – it trades comprehensibility for shared state optimizations
@luqui – @stevedekorte, wow, sneaking “FP ultimately fails” as if an obvious truth in a reply to a Haskell programmer
@stevedekorte – @luqui, a bit like sneaking in “[all] state is like globals” to an OO programmer? :-)
@stevedekorte – @psnively @luqui my only issue with FP is the decision to trade expressivity and reusability for less state while calling it progress
The conversation goes on (and on) between many twitterites, having a fun but serious argument about this and that benefit of this and that style. Dynamic/static types come up, OO vs. functional, usefulness, mathematical foundation, learning curves; none of the standard artillery is spared. What irritates me about this style of argument is all the sweeping adjectives (1) used with no definition, thus impossible to support with evidence, and (2) synonymized with better.
In this post, I will draw attention to this irritating vocabulary, so that the next time you use it you can realize how little you are saying. -
JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language.
JavaScript Garden does not aim to teach you JavaScript. Former knowledge of the language is strongly recommended in order to understand the topics covered in this guide. In order to learn the basics of the language, please head over to the excellent guide on the Mozilla Developer Network. -
Gamers, Not Scientists, Solve AIDS Enzyme Puzzle | ITProPortal.com
Online gamers have successfully solved a puzzle that has baffled scientists for years by putting together the structure of a retrovirus enzyme.
Scientists believe that the structure of the AIDS like retrovirus enzyme holds the key to creating medicine for the dreaded AIDS disease.
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