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Being able to earn some money on the internet does not make you any smarter from any other profession. So it's just the internet what makes you feel so special. Good luck software engineering your bilion dollars without it.

Why the Fuck? 14 years ago

"the smartest guys" didn't want to work on health problems, ok, however

Google Search is pretty much crap lately, AdWords/Facebook ads campaigns are expensive and ineffective

maybe it's not that bad after all

I see at least two problems:

- debugging such code is a nightmare(node.js itself makes it hard enough)

- static analysis of such code is not possible.. yet?

JS and programmers should target Java-like experience imo, static analysis, code assist, dependency check - all of it performed on-the-fly. We won't get it by creating yet another layer above main language, because IDE vendors simply can't cope.

use window.pushstate instead of urls with hashes,

you can change URL in window address without reloading entier page

Google will index "hashbangs", but they will rank poorly and you will get only small amount of traffic from search

There was much more "magic" in CGI/Perl. The only "magic" in JS in fact is caused by browser vendors and have nothing to do with language itself.

Unplug From Google 14 years ago

that's very cool story, but I did not see anything like that in google terms of use: "we provide search, you click ads"

actually it's more like: "we provide search, all informations about you belong to us!"

so "customer" is not the most appropiate word here, how about "slave"?