mitchi

This kind of abuse reminds me of Carmen Ortiz.

As a veteran C++ developer, I actually quite enjoy Javascript. Once I understood that Prototypes are linked lists and that *this is a pointer that changes according to 2 simple rules, Javascript became quite easy. I mean they even give you a GUI debugger. It's hard to get stuck for long, even though it's not not a Visual Studio. Like you said, you have already all the abstractions you need with this language. You can do complex things and for me, if I have composition, I'm pretty much already good to go.

His voice is so different!

I had noticed everyone had the same typical serious programmer personality here. That's why I enjoy reddit a lot more because it's not like that 100% of the time.

How is it different than someone selling barely modified WordPress websites? I'm not into that line of work but obviously, many small businesses in America rely on selling custom open source software.

I read this and immediately thought of this :

Retires at 35, explores the world for 30 years

Claims Social Security at 62.

http://weknowmemes.com/2015/05/25-ways-the-baby-boomers-had-...

Everytime something like this comes out, I think the following : Wouldn't it be great if I could develop and debug this under Windows with VS and deploy my release with Linux. The network libraries are always Linux(and family) only.

Chrome crashes and freezes all the time too.

If you haven't seen a Brendan presentation, they are quite enjoyable. Last time he was playing some zombie video game in the middle of his presentation. He insisted on not killing zombies with a shovel using instead deployable automatic turrets. I'm sure he uses the shovel when he plays alone though. Javascript's is actually growing very well and fast. It's quite surprising how soon it will have everything. In a way it can be compared to PHP - soon it will be a giant toolbox. The difference is that every tool was chosen and added one at a time. It ends up being a very good toolbox. I'm sure productive programmers aren't complaining. Pure FP programmers can always compile their ClojureScript to Javascript. For me, ES7 Javascript is already making me happy.

Can you imagine if we could have had Lua in the browser from the start? So much time would have been saved. Now Javascript, with ES6, is good enough to rival Lua in features. This kills the intent to learn Lua because if you are going to learn a dynamic language properly, might as well learn JS. There are way more jobs and projects made in it. About ZeroBrane IDE now. It's an amazing IDE and I love using it.

His last video was 2 years ago. Maybe he has a new hobby! I looked at some of his pure math videos. Basic stuff but I thought he explained well. If you visit this HN post and you decide to investigate further, just bookmark his youtube channel and maybe you enjoy some of his videos on maths or quantum physics sometime.

You are probably aware of this. But on Windows and Chrome, when I try to open a documentation page for "templates", it downloads a templates.gz file to my computer. It does this for 90% of the documentation pages. Very annoying, I have to cleanup a few files now :) Other than that the documentation is really lacking. I wanted to spend time looking into the work you've done but I haven't managed to do much besides having a static file server because of the bad documentation. I starred the project on github, hopefully it will keep getting better.

Remember that the computer chess AI is actually a snapshot of the intelligence of a human being. I don't see this distinction made enough. If you are struggling against a game, you are struggling against the one who made it.

Are there more of these with more languages and tools?

Very interesting. Great designs. Now I know who is Paul Rand and hopefully, a little more aboutt the importance of logo design.

This is the GNU assembler AT&T syntax though, which is known to be horrendous. Other assemblers have much nicer syntax.

I like the exam idea but it's not really the best way to test the skill of a person. You wouldn't hold an exam for the best painter or the best sculptor. I feel like computer programming (and related jobs) in general is similar. If you watch the TV show Better Call Saul (strongly recommend), you see him in the last episode learning that his own lawyer brother doesn't want him working at the same firm because he did an online law school, instead of going to a prestigious law school.

It is a very very ugly mentality.

What if I'm a skilled worker coming from France or Germany, with no education debts and I get the same job you have?

How would you feel?

This... Boost will ruin your compile times. I'm addicted to instant compilation so I avoid template hell.

Socket.io is wayyyyy more noob-friendly. If you send json over the wire, socket.io automatically converts it to a javascript object or array for you, ready to be used. The best feature however is that you can send emit any string as an event :

socket.emit("hello"); and the server can listen on this event with socket.on("hello"). If you want to do the same thing with the reference WebSocket you have to re-implement the same thing again and you will probably end up recoding the wrapper that socket.io already gives you.

School is absolutely fine for learning what you need. Better than doing it by yourself. The real problem is that it's A) Necessary for certain jobs B) Way too expensive. Making people decide to go autodidact

College degrees are similar to a car. The more it costs, the better you look. But you cannot buy a "used" college degree... Europe is even worse, they are getting master degrees to have an edge over other bachelor engineers and they compete for low paying jobs as well. A very easy solution to the college degree arm race is to have employers not discriminate using the name of the school. Perhaps it could be a law to hide the name of the school from the résumé. The only thing that matters is the person applying for the job and his skills, not the school he went to. The name of the school could be a forbidden thing to ask, until after he is hired.

If you are someone that doesn't eat many vegetables or take vitamins, I can see why coffee would be recommended. It does contain a very high amount of flavanols antioxydants... I'm not a big fan of the caffeine however.

I actually like the HTML/CSS solution too. http://thomaspark.me/2015/01/pubcss-formatting-academic-publ...

It's more difficult but I feel like there's a lot more potential.

I didn't know some countries could still play Sim City. A tunisian friend was talking to me about the same thing. A new coastal city, big investments coming in, we make this city a center for investments, arts, technology, finance. Well... Good luck. It's more likely to end up empty, like a big mall or expensive appartments no one can afford.

7 is with the instanceof pattern. You add an if statement at the beginning of the function. If "this" is global you return a new object.

Amazing slides. Great work. The quizz at the end is pretty hard too. Is anyone here confident about the answers?

https://gist.github.com/concise/a20b3e5d7e9c61dfbcc5

It's good for the brand though.

I was like you. Then I got serious RSI problems because I played competitive foosball while having an unhealthy lifestyle. I'm now almost fully healed after 2 years. My resolve is a lot stronger now because I've had to do so much self PT,yoga and health research. I can't recommend getting RSI as a solution though :)

Some weird stuff in this article. How can he have a teaching empire if he only makes 4M a year? Anyway, good for him. Meanwhile there are people putting tons of content on the internet, for free. Youtube channels, Khan Academy. If you really want to learn you only need to put aside some quiet time.