Sorry, but I really like Google Code source browser with its awesome features like searching for definitions, instantiations, calls, declarations etc.

GitHub is very poor on that matter.

He wasn't saying google code was bad, just that it's likely the next service to be cut by our friends over at Google. Given that v8's moving, this is pretty reasonable prediction.

That won't matter if Google Code disappears, none of those features will work then. That's what he is warning against.

Does it necessarily has to be a *copter?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier

There's a long list of VTOL aircrafts, but all of those are more or less horrible compromises. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_VTOL_aircraft

Flying drones without permissions(registred aircraft, pilot license etc.) is illegal in some countries already.

People carrying out assassinations don't exactly care about flight regulations.

lack of competitors for Google is bad

It is pretty embarassing that we completely rely on Americans for tech. And that's despite larger population and higher density, better Internet connectivity, free higher education in many places... I don't think it's Google's fault though.

I'm curious why Europe is in such a situation. There seems to be something pathological behind trend. I'm not sure what.

I've seen free higher education, or at least heavily subsided education. There is a great safety-net available too in most European countries. These two should make for a greater tech culture, at least abstractly.

Now I've worked with Americans and Europeans who had an MS or PhD in CS (full disclosure I started to get a MS, but had to stop because I couldn't do that, a marriage and 60 hrs a week for work). Most couldn't code worth a damn. They could probably discuss abstract CS concepts. They couldn't leverage those to solve a problem. It could be that the higher education is perhaps a hindrance to getting things done?

There could be a difference in how the two see failure. America seems to be open to it. Europe seems to be opposed. I think this is reflected in the history of the countries. America wanted the people who felt penned in by their countries hierarchy. Europe wanted those people gone.

Perhaps it's a combination of the two that's lead to the European problems. Education is seen as an end in itself, while the environment is such that people are told not to aim to high lest they melt there wings?

> There is a great safety-net available too in most European countries. These two should make for a greater tech culture, at least abstractly.

Quite the opposite actually. The better your life if you don't take a risk, the less likely it is that you will take a risk. And because people usually overestimate risk, risks are usually worth it.

I agree with this. I've recently started my own company. My wife has a job which covers our bills. I don't have a fear that we're going to get totally wiped out. As a result I don't focus as much as I should on it. Instead I work around the house or get lost on the Internet on HN or Reddit.

Right! America is great because we really do let our people starve in the streets, so they work harder :-/

Sad if true.

The difference?

1. The internet was developed in the USA. 2. Language.

The first point simply means that whatever was done with the internet, the USA got the first crack at it. In american TV it's common now to tell people two tweet about the show they're watching, with hash tags on screen and whatnot. In germany, europe's technology powerhouse, it's still extremely common for a person to have never even heard of twitter, if they have internet at all.

Further: Anything you do in tech has profits that scale with the audience you can reach. Companies starting out in the USA are able to access all of the USA, all of the UK, and anyone from any other country who has learned one of the most wide-spread languages on the planet; with exactly zero special consideration at any point. Companies in Europe have two choices: Either they build with localization in the product from the start, which is hard, and provide both their local language and english, which also costs more; or they ignore the local market and work entirely in english; or they stick to their own language entirely and ignore the world.

In addition to that, due the great employee safety neat, which also means that employees have protection from things like capricious firings, taking risks is more expensive for european companies.

Whichever way they go, european companies either have to live with less growth potential, less ability to take risks, or spend more to get the same opportunities as their american counterparts.

Why does adding English cost that much? I thought that a good number of European companies have English speaking people in them. They don't have to speak perfect English for a lot of tech. Just enough to label a UI mostly right. Americans will overlook grammatical errors.

Why is the Internet lacking in Germany? Is it because there are few German sites?

@dunmalg I guess that I find odd is that, at least for Java, i18n is really the design goal. Most web frameworks provided that ability. Wicket, Spring, etc. JSPs had tags that knew how to fish out content based on local. Android has is built in with English as the default, but with localization being additive. Heck, I'm doing that right now on my Android app.

As for Engrish, why is that bad on a first release. Yes, American's will laugh at it, but I doubt it will be enough to kill something that provide real value. Heck, Americans produce Engrish. That's never stopped us. If a German company tried to get ok English for their service/app/whatever version 1.0, they could take the money and improve for 1.4.

>Why does adding English cost that much?

Localization in general adds a whole additional dimension of complexity. Every place you would normally just stick a word or phrase between quotes now suddenly has to pull that in from an array or database somewhere.

Perhaps the US has stronger entrepreneurial culture? I've seen this discussed before.

That's not the case. Entrepreneurial culture is there in Europe even though there are many bureaucratical barriers.

US startups have at least one very important handicap: over 300mln people speaking the same language. On

For Europeans it's a very strong growth barrier, we can easily grow within one country, but then we hit the wall.

I would not call a 300 million people speaking the same language a "handicap" for the US startups. It's more of the opposite.

This is the correct answer, and that has cultural and economic system roots that date to the very origin of the United States.

The rest of the answer is that the US possesses an integrated, massive, comprehensive economic system. From capital markets, to VC markets, to every major industry, to the top universities on the planet, to a massive existing infrastructure related to science, engineering, programming, internet services, a total ecosystem from top to bottom. No other country on earth can match the total sum, and Europe as a whole is not integrated well at all.

Which part of Europe are you referring to?

Most of Europe is not at all like what you're describing.

Google has plenty of competitors. I think you forget that someone typing in a search isn't the customer opening their wallet up to pay for Google.

http://www.techdisruptive.com/2013/04/16/breaking-down-the-o...

Not in the search space they don't which is what EU companies have an issue with. It's Google with about 70%, Bing with about 20% and Yahoo with about 10%. The others are basically rounding errors.

When Google puts its own products before organic search results then that clearly is monopolistic behaviour i.e. attempting to extend dominance in one sector to another.

What does "organic" mean, though? Does it include unbelieavbly bad alternatives to stock Android facilities, like the Aptoide market mentioned in the article? I mean that site is just a piece of shit. Every click takes minutes to service! Is it really Google's responsibility to direct users to miserable experiences, just because some Eurocrat wants his pals to make more money? That's all this boils down to really: local bureaucrats trying to use sovereign powers to enrich their friends.

I think you missed by point. "Search" isn't their product. Advertising is.

I am yet to find some effective way of dealing with this problem - long term plan: retirement at age 40.

This "pattern" is wrong, it makes debugging much harder. In some cases less code means more pain and this is such case.

This is poor communication. Saying its 'wrong' and makes it 'harder' are your personal generalizations. Thats an empty statement. How does it do either of those?

This pattern encourages naming of anonymous functions that are used in callbacks. Which creates simpler stack traces. The new piece here about passing additional params to bind is also helpful, in that it will allow you to carry params across a callback stack. For me this will make carrying an express apps request and response objects across a callback chain much easier.

It forces programmer to make few more steps during debugging process, using conditional breakpoints in particular.

not a big deal to put conditional breakpoint in handleStreamEvent whereever it is, but in long run it just a waste of time.

  this.setup = function () {
    this.on('tweet', this.handleStreamEvent.bind(this, 'tweet'));
    this.on('retweet', this.handleStreamEvent.bind(this, 'retweet'));
  };

This pattern will be obsolote as soon as arrow function gets implemented by all major browsers:

  this.setup = function () {
    this.on('tweet', () => this.handleStreamEvent('tweet'));
    this.on('retweet', () => this.handleStreamEvent('retweet'));
  };

Those are not equivalent. You still have to pass on the parameters:

    this.setup = function () {
      this.on('tweet', (e, data) => this.handleStreamEvent('tweet', e, data));
      this.on('retweet', (e, data) => this.handleStreamEvent('retweet', e, data));
    };

Good catch. Once they are added though, it feels a lot more readable than the "bind" alternative.

Ah, but what is the value of 'this' when those handler functions are called?

Arrow functions preserve the 'this' of their enclosing context: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... :)

From typical Ukrainian POV EU is just better place to live and it is all about long term plans. Sure, Ukraine will have difficult time during adoption of EU rules and regulation, but in the end they will have better living.

Combined with simple XSS(or any other problem, modern websites are full of such bugs) this DoS will work.

Browsers are full of quirks, but today those quirks go beyond layout/rendering.