I could see it being useful when using grep or writing awk scripts. For the latter you usually have to carry around some state if you want to deduce the path to a desired leaf node.

I could also see it useful for just finding the index of a particular array entity.

What is wrong with that? It keeps minds focused on what should happen at work: work.

Nope, for some of us, taking breaks where we focus on other stuff is essential to perform better.

In my case, that's taking occasional walks to the coffeeshop nearby, despite their lack of inclusiveness of people with mobility problems and those who don't like coffee.

What's wrong is that I have the luxury of working at places that enjoy. I am not going to work at a place that I don't like.

You are free to choose otherwise, but me and many other people have the ability of quiting and working in better work environments.

Meshnet has been doing this for some time: https://projectmeshnet.org/. There are also other groups of people fighting for the same thing in Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk

The Batman protocol doesn't scale well.

Meshnet doesn't have the incentive (the actual only thing we're contributing to mesh networking)

If we could apply our payment strategy to any of the existing protocols we would have done it. Also, the fact that we have incentive means we could add special nodes; which means we can solve some of the issues that other protocols suffer from more easily. Instead of relying on distributed hash tables for example (a layer of complexity), why not dedicate a special node for lookup queries (PLN). That and we don't mind adopting a completely different approach for the routing protocol. This is why we're asking for the help of the community.

Please read the paper.

because you cannot host jQuery on your own site, you may or may not need jQuery.

edit: turns out, adblock didn't like logger.js. but the jquery and underscores are still refusing to be served. You may or may not need underscore as well.