Secretmapper

Wow. I've been very impressed with Microsoft lately. They could have easily set themselves up as the next IBM, in the sense of being a monolithic corporation relying on corporate practices, but they've been spewing some crazy fun things that shows they're not out of the league yet.

Might just be MY miscontrued perception that microsoft was becoming old/monolithic, but really excited with the direction they are heading.

I had the same use case as OP. Cloud 9 was an awesome way to start out, but we indeed switched to a VM solution.

With students that had less than performant laptops, C9 filled the gap.

Acqui-hiring at its finest. Amazon just wants to get Surefour.

In all seriousness though, I agree with the general sentiments here. I really hope C9 doesn't get shutdown, it's incredibly nifty and I've found it saving my butt a few times (quick set up for teaching new devs, working on a borrowed machine, working on university* , etc)

* ports aside from 80/433 are blocked, so I couldn't push/pull reliably. I ended up uploading everything to c9, then just using it to push/pull.

Have you tried it recently? I don't think I've had this problem with recent versions.

Fair enough, I'm afraid I didn't explain it properly

Totally awesome work! It would be great to get some comparison tables (size, compatibility, speed) for the common animation libraries (velocity, tweenmax/lite, etc)

Also digging your personal site!

BTW to parent, one big advantage of react-native over ionic is that it's not a wrapped web app, but a javascript/react app that compiles to an actual native app.

The performance difference and development experience (no silly css hacks) is very noticeable.

The takeaway of course is that most of those probably want to pick up Angular 2 because they used Angular.

I made a conscious switch from Angular to React because React (and the flux pattern) really did reinvent how web components are built and it's incredibly intuitive. I simply don't see the same innovation in Angular 2 apart from 'we made Angular more modern'

This may indeed be true, but I've found the performance penalty to be acceptable for my use cases.

There ARE times where I had to optimize though (HTML5 game developer, and we target mobile so this is expected) but for the most part 'premature optimization is the root evil'.

Funny. JS is my main language, and I personally also don't know most of the intricacies of JS, and we seem to share the same mindset.

I mean, I do know common pitfalls and I can use `this`, etc., it's just that I find it's easier to avoid them entirely and leads to more readable code IMHO. In a way my JS tends to just be very scheme-like.

This is too true. I've had a software engineer complain to me at how unfair his last interview was because they asked "esoteric javascript" questions in a front-end javascript development position.

I asked him what questions he found tricky and a lot of them are really simple javascript 'things' (scopes, closure, iife, etc) that would come up sooner or later when you're working with the language

Jeff Atwood also has a very great writeup of something similar to this on his blog[1]

I also have something similar going on with my blog. It focuses on game development, so I actually embed an iframe with a canvas to let the users play around with the code as they learn.

I really think that interactive interfaces like this for blogs and tutorials will be more common place in the future.

[1]https://blog.codinghorror.com/our-programs-are-fun-to-use/

Ding! Ding! Ding! It's a bit sad that most 'CS degrees are worthless' detractors don't realize this.

Microsoft's been moving pretty fast and doing some really big moves lately, I'm not sure the implication here is fair.

Does Atom still feel slower? I've used Atom before and it did feel sluggish, and using VSCode for TypeScript really felt lightyears ahead from Atom. (maybe a bit unfair of a comparison since it's most likely nicely integrated for it, but whatever)

To be fair I haven't caught up with their current versions (I'm a vimmer, I just tried them) but I think I tried Atom after the React move.

Even Micrsoft doesn't use IE. Their github's screenshot uses Google Chrome... in incognito.

EDIT: I'm actually getting downvoted. This statement is just made in jest people, chill :)

I don't know, a lot of the games here are simple enough they can be made in HTML5/canvas. In fact, their written in Haxe, and that can target HTML5 as an export (performance might be a bit touchy though)

I fully agree with the sentiments here. For all intents and purposes, I think that block style languages might not be the best way to introduce programming - I'll have to say that Bret Victor's Learnable Programming makes much more sense (http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/)

However, there is no (to my knowledge) better way to introduce programming in an easy 'non-keyboard' way than blocks. I ask this because I'm currently brainstorming ideas for tux4kids (an open source educational suite for kids - yes tux as in the linux mascot), and we've come to the conclusion of using block structures (since the game has to be playable for mobile too). Unfortunately, we've come no better than 'move here, use functions' a la Lightbot (lightbot.com)

It's quite timely that this has been posted here, since we're still brainstorming concepts and I wanted to take this opportunity to ask - what would you suggest for a 'programming game' for kids?

We're currently discussing Synchronization in our Operating Systems class and it just feels inadequate. This looks like a solid material to dive deeper into the topic :)

Hey!

I'm not sure if I fully understand your query, so let me know if I'm off the mark:

The answer is iTerm is incredibly configurable! iTerm can run on it's own 'fullscreen' window (Lion Style, you know, like say, full screen chrome) OR it can use a transparent fullscreen that basically just fills the current screen you are in, not creating a new 'desktop/space' (the gif on my blog post shows this).

APART from that you can also configure iTerm to show up on all desktops - i.e. I'll have documentation on desktop 1 and the actual site on desktop 2 and I can bring up the same terminal window with `alt space`.

So I do think that the answer to your question is YES!

That's probably the awesome thing about iTerm. There's no "super big killer feature" but it just provides enough options that whatever workflow you have/want, it most likely can support it.

And nice to meet a fellow vimmer! Thanks for the appreciating the CSS ribbons too :)

It's very short, but you can checkout my post on vim + [iTerm](http://arianv.com/post/My-First-Month-with-Vim/)

Basically, I really love the fullscreen keybinding, hotkeys, colors and search ( though the default terminal already has this I think)

They already integrated React in! SSR is possible with a few packages. RDBMS is where you got me :)

...and I have something new to my to-learn list

Hey there, sounds like we're a perfect match! Feel free to view my portfolio/site over at http://arianv.com and contact me through arianallensonv@gmail.com

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