jeffeld

It's not about adding value, it's about picking up bad habits from example code.

for (let character...

Please use const. Everything should be const until there is a proven need otherwise.

"An IDE can be a powerful abstraction, but when the underlying layer it's abstracting over becomes inaccessible, then all it's doing is adding more complexity by obscuring concrete details"

This. All day long.

Microsoft Quick-Help

Circa 1990, a DOS TSR (remember those?) that when you pressed Alt+H (I think) popped up help for the API call at the cursor (usually OS/2 or Win16).

Windows has had a kiosk mode since at least XP. It's still there in 8.1 (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hyperyash/archive/2013/10/25/enable-...).

All the benefits of a managed Windiws installation, and suitable for 99.9% of kiosk requirements. Probably.

Pity Google don't take the hint and make it more readable/understandable then.