The owner of the New York Stock Exchange will rename its tiny NYSE MKT exchange the NYSE American and introduce a 350-microsecond delay on orders there.

Source: NYSE, Former IEX Foe, Plans a Copycat Speed Bump of Its Own – Bloomberg

Source: ‘Final Fantasy XII’ remaster comes to PS4 on July 11th

Source: SpaceX’s Hyperloop competition finally puts pods in the tube

JavaScript classes introduced in ECMAScript 2015 are syntactical sugar over JavaScript’s existing prototype-based inheritance.

Source: Classes – JavaScript | MDN

As a backend guy, I don’t look at JS very often. This seems like a big improvement to readability. Like probably a lot of other people, I approached JS expecting it to be Smalltalk-style oop (like python/ruby) and was nonplussed. In fact it’s based on a different model altogether other examples of which you’ve probably never heard of.

President Reagan addressed the nation with this speech 31 years ago today, following the loss of the space shuttle Challenger and crew on Jan. 28, 1986.

Source: Video: 31 years since Challenger tragedy – Spaceflight Now

Why ‘1984’ Is a 2017 Must-Read

https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/25/singapore-full-scale-autonomous-truck-platooning-trial/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/business/energy-environment/offshore-wind-energy-long-island.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus

The Real Story Of 2016

Why, then, had so many people who covered the campaign been so confident of Clinton’s chances? This is the question I’ve spent the past two to three months thinking about. It turns out to have some complicated answers, which is why it’s taken some time to put this article together (and this is actually the introduction to a long series of articles on this question that we’ll publish over the next few weeks).