This video does a good job explaining Urbit: https://vimeo.com/75312418

I wish they wouldn't show error prompts when the user has just started entering characters

The demo was just meant to show what you can do with the formatters and the validators.

Those error prompts are not part of the library. In the demo, I setup some event listeners that get triggered on 'keyup change blur'. In the callback function, the value of the input field is validated and a message is shown to the user.

Maybe for your needs, it can be triggered on 'blur'. Or you even create your own setup. Formance.js simply provides the formatters and validators, and you can plug and play however you see fit.

I agree, way too many sites do this. I've done usability tests and users get scared that they're doing something wrong.

I just listen for a blur event and then display errors until it's actually valid.

That would have been helpful information in the blog entry.

The post is for their users not for external discussion sites that require additional context.

Dropbox forced them into STFU mode.

I used the super secret iOS SDK to build out a side project. I think the simple concurrency support is a BFD and a first for iOS.

I'd envision this tool rendering larger files as larger bubbles on the screen, showing the @properties and delegate methods as lines between the bubbles, ect

"I am my own grandpa"

Because consenting adults aren't allowed to engage in an exchange of medical services without the approval of federal bureaucrats + lurking personal injury lawyers.

All we need is just one state with medical contractual freedom.

No thank you, Christian Scientists are "experimental" enough. We don't need the Tim Ferrises of the world selling snake oil to parents (as medicine).

We also don't need the government telling adults what kinds of contractual agreements they can or can't enter into. "Caveat Emptor" and all that. People are, at the end of the day, responsible for the outcome of their own actions. Interestingly enough, this is still true even if we DO have a nanny state and an FDA and all the accompanying B.S.

Spin the FDA off as a non government agency, with no force of law behind it, let it create a voluntary approval process (something akin to the UL process for approving home electrical devices, for example) and let it be.

Yes I agree with this, I think the current system is worse than snake oil because you have government people telling you exactly what is medicine. And they are the FOOD and Drug administration. They are now telling people what they can label on things like blueberry extracts. That should just not be their business, they should just keep dangerous chemicals out of our lives.

In ayurveda, there are 3 types of medicines, food, herbs and poisons. The current allopathic system is purely the last type. It is heavily regulated because it is big money. There is not big money in the first two. (You may think there is money in food, but not fresh food which you actually have to prepare and eat within an hour, not prepare and let sit and pump full of preservatives).

The wunderground app is awesome, life upgraded.

"non-blocking reads in the past"

Sounds like google's finally invented time travel.

Actually, this is exactly how transactions in Oracle work. The difference is - one db server (Oracle) vs. distributed system (Google)

Oracle doesn't have to be one DB server. Check out Oracle RAC for instance.