steveklabnik

Quick summary:

Alienation is one of the ways that capitalism sucks. It's a symptom that something's not right, not the underlying cause. Alienation is something that happens because of the way that capitalism is built.

In short, alienation is a separation between things that should be together. This separation causes tension.

Four ways that capitalism is alienating:

From your product of labor

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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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.

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candycode

// Simulate a call to Dropbox or other service that can
// return an image as an ArrayBuffer.
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

// Use JSFiddle logo as a sample image to avoid complicating
// this example with cross-domain issues.
xhr.open( "GET", "http://fiddle.jshell.net/img/logo.png", true );

// Ask for the result as an ArrayBuffer.
xhr.responseType = "arraybuffer";