Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools

Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools

Moreover, script debugging is a hard-to-learn skill that should work in similar fashion across browsers, but isn’t consistent because of feature and UI gaps. This allows workers and their scripts to be debugged within the same Debugger panel, similarly to other modern browsers. The Source Maps project, started and maintained by Firefox, bridges the gap between minified code running in the browser and its original, human-friendly version, but the translation isn’t perfect.

Source: hacks.mozilla.org

Rescale Is Hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer in San Francisco

Rescale Is Hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer in San Francisco

Becoming a part of the Rescale team means that you are part of the next generation in big compute. In turn, these services configure and manage on-demand, isolated HPC clusters hosted on a number of different infrastructure providers. • Experience managing, monitoring, and optimizing the performance of cloud-native applications in production.

Source: jobs.lever.co

Coca Cola is the most common source of packaging pollution

Coca Cola is the most common source of packaging pollution

However, SAS complains that in practice the vast majority of the cost of dealing with litter and packaging waste – about 90% – is borne by local authorities and that the parent companies of many leading brands do not share information on the quantity of packaging they produce. Following the consultation, the government may toughen the rules, making companies 100% responsible for the cost of the waste resulting from their packaging, from production to final disposal. The company, which produces 3m tonnes of plastic packaging a year, has pledged to collect and recycle one bottle or can for every one that it sells, as part of a global initiative called WorldWithoutWaste, and last year said it would increase the amount of recycled plastic in all bottles across its brands from 25% to 50% by 2020.

Source: www.theguardian.com

Books on Swearing

Books on Swearing

Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English Read

Let’s look at your books. Your first book is Geoffrey Hughes’ Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English. One of the things that is so interesting about social histories of swearing is seeing how the most incendiary words in one period can become mere linguistic fossils a few centuries later.

Source: fivebooks.com

Trump Administration’s Redefinition of Poverty Could Shrink Social Services

Trump Administration’s Redefinition of Poverty Could Shrink Social Services

The Trump administration is proposing changes to the way poverty is calculated that analysts believe would result in fewer benefits for millions of poor Americans. The proposal by the Office of Management and Budget would change the official definition of poverty by modifying the calculation the Census Bureau uses to determine the size of America’s poor population. It would take several years for the Trump administration’s change to seriously impact social services, but the move could influence the public debate about the meaning of poverty.

Source: citizentruth.org

Etsy Carbon-Offset Shipping

Etsy Carbon-Offset Shipping

Etsy is the first major online shopping destination to offset 100% of carbon emissions from shipping. * Now, every time you purchase an item on Etsy, we balance out the carbon emissions by creating positive environmental impact. It means that for any carbon emissions released into our atmosphere as a result of shipping items on Etsy, we invest in projects that reduce carbon emissions by the same amount.

Source: www.etsy.com

I.M. Pei has died

I.M. Pei has died

In 1982, Mr. Pei would have a very different kind of opportunity in China when the governors of the Bank of China in Hong Kong, the bank his father had once run, traveled to New York to meet with Tsuyee Pei, who had long since left China and was living in Manhattan. Their mission was to ask the senior Pei, in a demonstration of traditional Chinese etiquette, if he would agree to allow them to invite his son to design a new skyscraper headquarters for the bank in Hong Kong. Mr. Pei proposed building a glass pyramid in the center of the ancient Cour Napoleon to serve as a new main entrance to the museum.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Research Design Patterns

Research Design Patterns

Risks: This pattern is great for getting started on research and for inspiring follow-up ideas, but it can be hard to build an entire portfolio out of just asking what’s the deal with a bunch of different topics (unless you’re actually Seinfeld). This idea seems ridiculously impractical, but we built a prototype called Omnicode (based on Python Tutor) that tried to do this:

Example 2: An expert tutor can do a good job helping a single student at once in real time. My favorite personal example is Porta, where we took the idea of code profiling from software engineering and transferred it to the HCI / online learning world by applying it to improve online tutorials.

Source: www.pgbovine.net