Exactly this, the CEO of a publicly traded company would have to answer to the board of directors and investors. That would add resistance to spending lots of money on something unproven. Publicly traded tech companies get much more freedom in this regard. Plus just the amount of institutional cruft (technology, policy, procedure, personnel) in a large/old company like Sears.

Consider putting the site behind Cloudflare or similar content cache provider maybe?

not exactly the best example when you consider what their research arm bell labs gave us.

Not saying that monopolies are good, it's just not black and white...

Even a steaming pile of shit has one or two good qualities.

A comment like this makes me think you really don't know much about Bell Labs.

http://blog.tmcnet.com/next-generation-communications/2011/0...

A lot of modern computing traces back to them and Xerox.

I know about Bell Labs and their contributions. They were the one positive thing from Ma Bell, but there were a LOT of other bad things in Ma Bell that I'd rather not see come about again. I bet we can have a Bell Labs-like thing exist without all the other crap.

I'd love to see it. Where is this fabled research giant that doesn't need a bunch of funding from a giant corporation?

I mean, I guess you could look at DARPA or other government agencies as some sort of equivalent, but you're not exactly escaping controversy by getting your funding from the DoD...

Lucent. (Ugh... Rode that sucker down to $0)

I felt vim adventures helped me, but then again that's just anecdotal proving your point.

That's good to hear. As long as it's useful for some people that's all that matters for the people that created it. It's not like there's much evidence about the best way to learn Vim so your anecdote is as good as mine. At least there's a lot of people that have generated different methods to suit different people.

Vim adventures also helped me to get started in Vim. I never finished it but it definitely was useful in learning the basics. I recommend it.

Exactly same here. I wanted to chime in because it sounded like it would help supplant the anecdotal evidence.

Lodash is fairly ubiquitous, you can sneak in some lodash fp into projects. Dalton even has it aliased for ramda. The artity for certain functions might be different I didn’t check.

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/commit/6b2645b3106b0ed9ebec...

tag Troy Hunt and underarmor on Twitter with a pic of this, sit back and enjoy.

The dot net foundation has released a lot of the language components, this appears to be a different compilation target.

It looks like this project skips the common intermediate language, and compiles straight to native processor code or Web Assembly (Ahead of Time compilation).

You get to skip the overhead of Just In Time compilation.

Nope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Intermediate_Language

Common Intermediate Language is the standard name for MSIL.

Security through obscurity isn't a good practice in general.

Because few people use it, security testers probably don't spend much time on it. So it could be easier to find vulnerabilities.

It's also end of support 7/11/2017, so nothing will get patched after (unless you pay for extended support). That leaves you exposed to any critical vulnerability found after that point.

So obscurity might save you from widely targeted attacks at the majority (android, iOS), but wouldn't stop any targeted attack against you.

one semicolon to rule them all?

If you want a 15in, MacBook Retina Pro w/ bootcamp.

If you want a 13in, I honestly feel the Dell XPS 13 Developer edition is amazing, better than the 13in Retina Macbook Pro IMO.

Brainfart said boot camp meant parallels/fusion/virtualbox. Or go to the trouble of getting Linux on it and do the reverse. It's legal to virtualized OSX on Apple hard ware.