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Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

(Related blog post)

Simply put, destructuring in Clojure is a way extract values from a datastructure and bind them to symbols, without having to explicitly traverse the datstructure. It allows for elegant and concise Clojure code.

Vectors and Sequences

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

So there were a few threads going around recently about a challenge to write the longest sequence of keywords in Javascript:

There are, however, a few problems:

These solutions use non-keyword tokens (null, true, false are actually Literals, not Keywords)
One of the solutions isn't quite valid (new super)

	"\e[A": history-search-backward
	"\e[B": history-search-forward
	set show-all-if-ambiguous on
	set completion-ignore-case on

	/// Playground - noun: a place where people can play
	/// Church-Turing clan ain’t nothing to func with.

	/// Church encoding is a means of representing data and operators in the lambda
	/// calculus. In Swift, this means restricting functions to their fully curried
	/// forms; returning blocks wherever possible. Church Encoding of the natural
	/// numbers is the most well-known form of encoding, but the lambda calculus is
	/// expressive enough to represent booleans, conditionals, pairs, and lists as
	/// well. This file is an exploration of all 4 representations mentioned.

	// Create a Promise that resolves after ms time
	var timer = function(ms) {
	return new Promise(resolve => {
	setTimeout(resolve, ms);
	});
	};

	// Repeatedly generate a number starting
	// from 0 after a random amount of time
	var source = async function*() {

	a4b.amazonaws.com
	access-analyzer.amazonaws.com
	account.amazonaws.com
	acm-pca.amazonaws.com
	acm.amazonaws.com
	airflow-env.amazonaws.com
	airflow.amazonaws.com
	alexa-appkit.amazon.com
	alexa-connectedhome.amazon.com
	amazonmq.amazonaws.com

	const handler = {
	get(target, propKey, receiver) {
	if (/^_[0-9]+$/.test(propKey)) {
	const result = [];
	const first = Number(receiver);
	const last = Number(propKey.slice(1));
	for (let i=first; i<=last; i++) {
	result.push(i);
	}
	return result;