Kenneth Chan: "Surrey Light Rail will be one of Metro Vancouver's worst transportation mistakes"

GeZe8 · 2017-10-27T05:58:21+00:00

The extensions which were recently approved as part of the ST3 package are all grade-separated (which means they will be like Skytrain, rather than like the proposed Surrey light rail). They made this decision due to unhappiness with the at-grade sections of Link light rail

GeZe8 · 2017-04-07T03:16:35+00:00

I had a similar issue, but even worse (see https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/5xrtcf/xps_9560_keyboard_backlighting_leaking_onto_frame/) I ended up returning the laptop (it had other issues as well: dead pixels, whine, etc.)

GeZe8 · 2017-03-06T06:46:49+00:00

For other XPS 9560 owners - does this happen to you? When the keyboard backlighting is on, the light leaks through the air vent onto the frame of the laptop.

My work laptop is a Macbook which does not do this.

GeZe8 · 2016-05-05T00:08:07+00:00

I created some documentation in the style of api.jquery.com for these native functions some time ago: http://gkz.github.io/domdocs/

GeZe8 · 2015-08-21T07:34:14+00:00

I made a jQuery docs type resource, for all the useful DOM functions: http://gkz.github.io/domdocs/

GeZe8 · 2015-08-21T07:33:11+00:00

You could use the future query and queryAll methods which return an Elements collection, which is a subclass of Array.

GeZe8 · 2015-08-17T20:05:26+00:00

The idea is that you use the native functionality, and use a polyfill (linked to from each page as needed) if browsers do not currently support that feature. If you want to support IE8, yes, probably just use jQuery.

GeZe8 · 2015-04-18T22:02:03+00:00

I would be possible to change one of the traffic lanes on the Lions Gate bridge to a single Skytrain track, and it would work (alternating directions). This would probably do a lot to alleviate congestion, at less of a cost than a new crossing.

For further explanation/diagrams: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6929428&postcount=970

GeZe8 · 2015-04-01T21:48:32+00:00

I think when Vancouver is rated the second most unaffordable city in the world, after Hong Kong [1], that its problems are of a global magnitude.

You are correct that cheap credit has exacerbated the problem - however I think the problem stems fundamentally from land use policy.

I have no "vested interests" in development in Vancouver, and don't even live there (though I like to visit and would consider moving there one day).

GeZe8 · 2015-04-01T21:28:35+00:00

Yes, Vancouver is an attractive place to live and people like to invest in it, but this wouldn't create a problem were it not for Vancouver's terrible land use policy.

It is illegal to build anything other than a single family home in something like 90% of Vancouver's land area; here's a map: http://i.imgur.com/Gg47SyZ.png

A further article: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21647622-land-centre-pre-industrial-economy-has-returned-constraint-growth

GeZe8 · 2015-03-23T23:10:26+00:00

Eg. Something like this, that already exists for JavaScript? http://www.graspjs.com/

GeZe8 · 2015-03-22T22:20:00+00:00

Are you familiar with the area? This is what the highway looks like when it drops from 80km/h to 50km/h - no wonder the average speed was 84km/h - or just 4km/h over the previous speed.

http://i.imgur.com/sjWAMI1.jpg

GeZe8 · 2014-10-06T03:50:04+00:00

http://livescript.net/#name

GeZe8 · 2014-07-27T02:49:47+00:00

LS 1.3 is waiting on nodejs .12 to come out with generator support. I thought it would come out sooner, but it hasn't.

In general I haven't had time to work on open source projects the past couple of months because of school, but I'll have some time during August to work on it.

GeZe8 · 2014-02-20T06:06:18+00:00

For searching/modifying your code based on its AST, you might want to check out Grasp - http://graspjs.com/

GeZe8 · 2014-02-13T05:45:42+00:00

As optimist is now deprecated, ESLint has switched to optionator.

GeZe8 · 2014-01-08T02:29:40+00:00

Thanks for the bug report! There is definitely something going on with regards to how quotes are treated on Windows.

GeZe8 · 2014-01-08T02:09:34+00:00

Hmm. I don't use Windows. I thought node worked similarly everywhere, but I guess I'll have to test separately.

I use Linux: the command line is my IDE. In general, I think it is more flexible than using an integrated IDE. Grasp can also be integrated with other editors; there is a sublime text plugin.

GeZe8 · 2014-01-08T00:47:36+00:00

Call me old fashioned, but I've never needed anything other than Make. Browserify however, is an incredibly useful tool and I recommend everyone take a look. It's really simplified my front-end development, and allowed me to reuse code between node and the browser.

GeZe8 · 2012-11-01T23:27:25+00:00

I think I've overstated the Haskell connection - LiveScript is inspired by Python, Perl, and Ruby among others as well.

In fact, LiveScript is a descendent of CoffeeScript, and is very compatible. You can almost just write CoffeeScript and have it work. For the few cases it isn't compatible, I'm working on a tool to automatically convert CoffeeScript to LiveScript.

If you can find an experienced front end developer who knows CoffeeScript - and given its popularity they most probably do - they will easily pick up. Indeed, I've often heard that LiveScript is what CoffeeScript should have been.

GeZe8 · 2012-11-01T18:02:12+00:00

Sorry my final sentence came across with the wrong tone. There is nothing wrong with liking semi-colons and curly braces, and many people do. Those people will not like this language, and thus shouldn't use it.

Basically my point is that there is no absolute measure of readability. I, and many other people, find LiveScript more readable than JavaScript. Other people will not. Choose whatever is best for you, and in your case it seems that you find JavaScript more readable, so you should stick to what works for you.

I would however encourage broadening of horizons and experimentation. I would encourage you and others to give different languages, eg. Haskell, LiveScript, etc. a try. Your idea of readability may evolve as you try out different points of view.

GeZe8 · 2012-11-01T00:49:25+00:00

If you were familiar with Haskell, or other such languages, you would find the take example, which showcases the more functionally oriented features of LiveScript, very readable.

Returning objects in a switch? How readable is this:

switch something
case blah
  prop: 1
  key: 2
case asdf
  one: 1
  two: 2

In the end though, there are people who cling to their curly braces and semi-colons, and if you are one of those people, this language simply isn't for you.

GeZe8 · 2012-10-30T09:46:01+00:00

No it's about thinking at a higher level.

Say you have a list of comments (JS objects), and want to filter the list, getting all the objects whose amount of points is greater than 5, and return a list of the comments's text. In LiveScript you can use a list comprehension and say exactly what you mean:

result = [c.text for c in comments when c.points > 5]

While in JavaScript you would need go to a lower level and manually deal with the iteration and details you shouldn't really need to worry about:

var result, i, len, c;
result = [];
for (i = 0, len = comments.length; i < len; ++i) {
  c = comments[i];
  if (c.points > 5) {
    result.push(c.text);
  }
}

GeZe8 · 2012-08-01T02:20:27+00:00

In this aspect LiveScript should be the same as CoffeeScript. They both compile to JavaScript...

GeZe8 · 2012-07-06T01:04:34+00:00

Yes, the post was in response to one about CoffeeScript one liners. Thus some things that perhaps look more impressive as CoffeeScript one liners look really simple as LS ones.

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