I suppose the above statement is true, but the vm that hosts WebAssembly is the javascript engine.
Theoretically, I don't think you can do anything in WebAssembly that's not possible to do with Javascript.
 

I was a junior in college studying physics. I was putting myself through school so I bought the kit. I dumpster dived a TV and got a tape recorder at Goodwill. I coded solutions to numerical analysis problems on it before going to the lab to punch the code onto cards.
It lasted just under a year and I really missed it when it was gone.

Completely disagree... I find this question interesting because it challenges the concepts of free will and consciousness.
If we discovered that we were living in a simulation everyone;s 'woo-woo thinking' would be shot to hell (pardon the pun).

A Turing machine use an infinitely long tape, so I would limit the definition of computability to just a) and c). It might make a difference when talking about simulating the universe :-).

I'm no chemist but I'm guessing that the byproduct of burning said hydrocarbons is probably carbon dioxide.

OK, so somebody took down thousands of servers, shit happens. Once the mistake was recognized why does it take so long to start up those servers again?

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy

The Constitution of the United States does not grant any rights to non-US citizens.

There is no legal duty to maximize corporate profits and 'shareholder value'.

And what supreme court case are you talking about? Dodge v. Ford Motor Co?
That was a Michigan Supreme Court case, not a US Supreme Court case. And even that case really has nothing to do with shareholder value.

Stimulus money gets spent and, well, stimulates the economy. Money spent waging war produces, well, a lot of dead bodies and more war. The money spent on the Iraq war would have been used better if we had used it to wipe our asses.

I had never heard of Espruino, thanks...

I frickin hate javascript but I've been playing with TypeScript and it's palatable. I'm ready to use TypeScript and node for writing server code that'll I'll eventually run on a RPi or C.H.I.P.. I've been a Java developer for quite a while but Java isn't handy to use on these small embedded chips. TypeScript and node can give me a decent server platform that I could use everywhere, even at work maybe.

The author challenged the readers to make a single change that would have an immediate effect without writing a single line of code. I can only think of one... immediately stop implementing new features. That would keep the open/close ratio from getting much larger without any coding. But how to make the business case for doing so? My argument would be that the graph shows that their current systems are broken and worthless. The business can recover their investment in the current systems by taking the time to fix the open issues and removing broken functionally that's not needed.

I don't think you should be insulted by this. All humans, not just women, are irrational and emotional. We prefer that our detergent come in orange boxes instead of green boxes. We're attracted to people with symmetrical faces. We'll buy that fake diamond if the seller tells us it'll make our life complete. It's just the way we are..

Baby steps. Young people would be much better served by learning to brainstorm, reason, and think abstractly. And those basic skills will server them whatever they do. At most, teach coding as a way to obtain these basic skills, but not as an end to itself.