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I will answer your question with a question... Is Donald Trump President of the United States? Anyone has the numbers on how much 500k fake snapchat followers cost? ^^

Yes there are and I am a fan and built some - currently working at a bank as dev for rent - and they are doing it poorly ( I don't want to name the stack, because it's not responsible for a 4mb first page load + 1mb CSS - uncompressed ), it's their first big Js project and their cool 'kids' fresh from university... No server-side rendering and no-js fallback, concept copied from another bank... so glad I am out soon - it really makes my head hurt. I didn't think you can hurt an app so much by moving it do Spa, just for the sake of Spa. Most surprising, for me personally - UX issues, because they have no 'refresh'/change indicator and people don't expect things to change instantly - without page reload...

Well - all the money thrown at startups without business-models does sure have a part in attracting those... i often think - even the most so called 'unicorns' are only gigantic bubbles waiting to burst. Most of them are eating up millions and fail to present a glimps on how they actually want to earn back this money someday. I sometimes think investors and startups haven't learned anything from the .com-bubble.

I can't remember exactly - but i recall reading an article that was about an fiction writing AI winning a price for a short-story. Oh - google my old friend... http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/japanese-ai-writes-no...

Well - you're never to old to learn new tricks ^^ And programming is still a useful and sometimes rewarding trick.

Seems like the bubble is finally shrinking... i think dept can actually help an early company focus their effort - if you know you have to produce value, to meet your next payments - instead of 'oh, yeah i got a billion dollars - lets buy some art for the office'. I am always amazed when i read articles on how much money a (typical) unicorn (actually) looses... Granted it can take some money to build a user-base etc. But, woo... i would love if someone could calculate the cost of customer for some big ones... Or tell me how shit, without a business-model, gets founding millions high.

But as i understand there is a workable update-path ( also automated client? Experiences anyone ) - and as far as i am just starting working with angular2 the general concepts are still pretty close to angular1. I stopped developing ng1 about two years ago, because i ran into concerns i couldn't fix - ultimatly breaking my use-case. But all of them are fixed in ng2, so i will give it another run ( with high hopes )...

Like it, good article...

Just some git love Didn't read, but there are so many articles out there... i started working with git from console ( when i didn't use the console that much ) and still compared to tfs, subversion etc. it felt like haven. I currently have to use SourceTree at Work... damn it makes git feel so slow... Somebody experience with https://www.gitkraken.com/? Any point in trying it out? All the best

What do you mean? I just watched at the project and it looks pretty promising to me? The AMP Product team rejected AMP as failure? If you got some links, i would be interested. all the best

And you can trust in one thing - they are everywhere. Always, always will and always have been...

Maybe someone should learn to take a joke... I consider myself a 'real' ( what does that even mean ) software developer - working on web-sites/apps since 15 years - starting my path doing web-design, adapting css as it came out... IT WAS IMPRESSIVE AND AWESOME ( because there hasn't been anything good before )...

But I have to say i am still learning and running into stuff i have done a 1000 times - unable to understand why this is working - only to uncover one statement which breaks everything... BECAUSE CSS HAS TERRIBLE INTRANSPERANT CONCEPTS AND QUIRKS ( Not all are its own faults, looking at you IE ). Also some of them have arisen because it's not used what it was made for - styling documents of text... Not all the fancy stuff we miss-use it today.

CSS is an old friend here to stay - he can for sure take a joke ( sometimes a beating ) and so should you. I usually enjoy these talks :)

Now even docker wants me to upgrade to windows 10 ^^ Keep up the great work!

As Austrian, i am really glad about outcome of yesterdays election - still it was a really close one. And you are right - freedom party is far right imho - but they down-play that them selfs and gain a lot votes from people who are upset about the fact that the two big center parties didn't get any shit done in the last few years. And they have gotten good in playing that - just look at trump - telling the rage people what they want to here - even if it sounds irrational or are plain lies - just seems to work.

That must be were my motivation was hiding since last week...

Anyone has had a chance to try the windows beta? Would be interested to read about that to. thanks in advance...

hmm... hail you mighty big creators of the simulation I live in - please provide me with some cheat codes so i can get some more money, women and toys - also to unleash the wrath of gozilla on a random city of sim earth :D Sounds like a fine religion to me :)

A classic adventures - i miss them, hope someone is doing Toonstruck too :) Would like to play this again, without my eyes bleeding.

You are right, i apologize for my tone...

Sorry, but that's stupid... Being exploited and loving it - more sounds like an mental illness then passion. You can keep your passion - even when you get paid fairly... But enjoy your happiness in slavery, if you like. Bad thing is you hurt people who may need fair compensation (wife, kids etc. ) for their work, because you show the suits they can find people stupid enough to do so... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xH7eGFuSYI

Sure... i just want the opportunity to write good code, once, before i die and getting paid for it :)

No. :)

Agreed, these are things you can take away from playing minecraft... and we are on the same page, if we both think computer-games are an awesome way for explorative learning and creative development.

But still this doesn't change anything in the way our educational system works... Even if you see it as a new tool... i highly doubt you can build traditional courses around minecraft ( because some will love it and use it, while others will not see the potential and would just use it as another internet-surfing course. ) But as our educational systems fail more and more, bores us to death... motivation towards autodidactical styles of learning rise... and i think this is what we see in the sometimes incredible outcomes of minecraft games.

As it seems the empty canvas and creative outlet for people ( i admit i never played it and therefore can't fully understand the hype around it ).

Ok, this article is just weak... Kids are using minecraft to live out their creativity... So how is this changing education? They are not learning how to be creative ( at least i see no prove for that in this read), they just exercise the skills they already have, which of course will train their creative muscles. Maybe you can say minecraft is a superior tool for doing so, as it doesn't enforce phisical limits ( and maybe introduces new challenges like mentioned materials etc. ). I read this because i expected something like the claims they made for second live, while i was in university, which we used for online courses ( also building auditoriums and stuff ) and soon failed to deliver the platform for courses with user-interactions and so on...

A fool and his baggy/money will be soon seperated :D

Hmm... I only experienced one web-technology which was proprietary software and had a strong 'opensource' community, being flash. Always seemed to me, developers using proprietary technologies tend to not share their stuff.

If you must compare Angular with React, then at least compare it to ReactJs+Flux+more or Angular-Templates with React-Templates.

React is more like the view-lib of a framework. I like them both (also ember, knockout, backbone) and unfortunately think the battle isn't decided yet. Will take some time if ever...

Complain to Steve Jobs(1), for killing Flash/Flex, as you could to client-side apps with desktop performance, without the hassle of Cross-Browser testing and so on... In my opinion the concepts of Angular and React+Flux are heavily based on the features this platform provided.

(1) IMHO the Only good thing he ever did (for the web), as it forced the proprietary software out... but led to the great Framework-War :)

P.S.: Also Actionscript 3 was ECMAScript(Javascript) plus Classes, Types and more... ( I wondered about which Version that was latly and found out they implemented ECMAScript and extended it with features requested by users.)

http://www.theodinproject.com/ I am a web-developer since 15 years and i found this excellent! Also gave it to a friend who wanted to see if working in this field would work for him and he loved it. I find it really gives you great insights in the broad knowleadge required. all the best, florian

Hmm... it doesn't mention anything about the used VM settings. System has 8gb ram. But as i remember java vm is restricted in its use of ram as is NodeJs ( i guess this test was performed in node). To use full 8gb ram you would have to run multiple nodejs instances? am i wrong?