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ooh I'd not seen that yet, will have to take a look.

Can't wait for it to land in the server-side runtimes, really the last thing preventing me from adopting it wholesale.

Koa is relatively outdated at this point. Fastify is generally what I and most people I know look towards when starting something "new". Express is still in a lot of things, though.

it’s intended now but wasn’t initially.

source: I committed it.

You should try to see if the website works in Windows 95 with the WASM Windows 95 implementation in Electron:

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95

Who said this is a small open-source repo? Node.js has one of the most active OSS communities on the web, with many contributors and developers looking at the code, consuming and working on security and fixing bug reports daily.

Also, a single company provides limitations - you've got blinders on, and your project isn't open for those with a different perspective to come in and take a look and notice something. I honestly think that fresh, open, and global perspective is truly key the success of OSS.

IIRC the GitHub Open Source Survey noted that the people surveyed were more likely to trust OSS software in terms of security because of the transparency with vulnerabilities and the community surrounding it.

This article mentions increased use of OSS libs as a rising source of XSS. I'm really not sure what's worse - OSS that can be fixed and audited easily or proprietary software that's closed and lacking visibility.

Awesome job to everyone involved in this - SUPER excited for this release.

I unsubscribed from the highly annoying BestBuy marketing emails and got a notice I'd be removed in 10 days. I looked into CAN-SPAM, and that's the maximum allowance of time to comply with a removal request. Never going to shop at a BestBuy again.

See the Workflows app. Would the way they do it in that app work?

Forced? You can enable and disable it in every repo's settings.

Copy and paste down arrow? On mobile.

That's different... That's just the standard UX of their mobile autocomplete. It's the same on iOS (I type "f" and it autofills a URL - next letter I type is appended to the end of that URL, slash and all).

This is a problem with how it's interpretations the encoding of characters - they should be escaped by default and be able to be enabled with a flag if there's a valid use for them.

Facebook is different than MySpace. Entire families, including grandparents, weren't on MySpace. Facebook has gotten very close to achieving their goal of "Becoming the Internet" for many 40 .

You'd probably have to look into whether TLDs count toward copyright, e.g. if company ABCXYZ (TM) could claim against abc.xyz.

The reallllly important thing is that you're not calling your chat app TinyChat, but Tiny. If you are calling it TinyChat and started after they opened, you'love need to reassess. If you're calling it Tiny, then you're better off.

Not a lawyer, just what I've experienced the laws around this to be.

Someone who has made a lot of money using one-off tactics to make a lot more money? Why would they do that!

100% agree with you. I don't agree with the comment you replied to, but it's _not_ a good sign that they stole another project's logo. https://tent.io/

If it were opt-in, I would absolutely opt-into it. I want the companies who make products I use/consume to succeed - that's why I never install ad-block. I watch tons of shows on YouTube and niche video sites, and I know the ads are what help these companies stay alive.

While I know installing ad-block is still opt-out (not -in), it's still a choice of a click that I'm making. I want to support you, but I don't want the choice of privacy made for me.

Are there places I can find lists of cons/events/meetups? Meetup.com is the only one I know of.

I replied to him immediately. Thanks!

That's sort of an oxymoron. I'd say that, unfortunately, 99% of colleges don't have any kind of server-side JavaScript class.

The closest that I can get to is a class that's half HTML+CSS and half WordPress. All other similar classes are Computer Science, and are languages like C++, C#, Java, and Python.

I know it's good to learn those, but I'm under a tight schedule in terms of credit hours, and can't afford to take extra classes outside of my curriculum.

Stuck in the middle of nowhere, NY until I graduate with my Master's in Dec. 2017. So, most likely not.

I'm in a somewhat similar position. I started as a web designer, but then moved my interest toward web development almost entirely. I know where you're coming from, and it can be frustrating.

Everybody, and I mean _everybody_, has their framework, platform, language, and so on that you should learn. If you ask a question like this over an extended period or in a popular forum where it will get seen and responded to, you're going to get a million people telling you to go in a million different ways.

_You_ need to take a look around, and figure out what's best for _you_. Pretty much every established framework, platform, and language is good.

You can build an app with any of them, but some have special characteristics that might seem more relevant to your interests. You should evaluate probably 5-10 of each of the available options in each category based on the features they specifically point out that they're good at, and choose which ones you want to use. Here are some of the different frameworks/platforms/languages you can start with:

MVC-ish frameworks:

Angular: https://angularjs.org/

Ember: http://emberjs.com/

Backbone: http://backbonejs.org/

React + Flux (my pick, as it's pretty revolutionary):

http://facebook.github.io/react/

and

http://facebook.github.io/flux/

Server-side:

Ruby on Rails (the most common server-side framework, but slowly fading out as a favorite): http://rubyonrails.org/

Node.js: http://nodejs.org/

io.js (my pick, as I'm involved with it, and it's 100% a step up from Node, as you can by default use ES6 (search ES6 on Google if you don't know what it is) features): https://iojs.org/en/index.html

Django (Python): https://www.djangoproject.com/

Client-side JS:

jQuery: http://jquery.com/

Plain JavaScript (my pick, as I feel it's a lot more healthy to learn vanilla instead of rely on jQuery as a crutch, which is what most, but not all, front-end devs that use it do): A million tutorials online. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ for docs on functionality. Find extremely well-designed (visually) blogs that have tutorials on how to _build programs_ that have actual usable functionality in the browser.

If you want any more advice or guidance, hit me up on Twitter @bitandbang or email me at bitnb@subvertising.org.

I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't consider that info. It's definitely not enough for most people to sign up on. 99% of people would just close the tab and move on.

That said, there's no information once you log in, either. You're just taken to a feed, and left to your own devices. Not what I'd call a great experience. I like the idea, but you definitely need to develop this more.

The "trusted" status is that you took part (and succeeded?) in a YC batch.

I really like this, and agree with it wholeheartedly. I'm a Junior at a decent school as a design major, even though I like development more.

I tried to take a Comp Sci. course last semester, but I knew everything that was going to be covered--logic, loops, functions, etc. The basics. You'll encounter the same thing at any college with a Comp Sci. degree.

However, you'll also find that there are much more interesting topics that are taught the further you get in. You'll like it more and more as you go, and you'll learn more and more too.

Something to know is that college is more than just learning to program. College is an experience that attempts to make you a more educated person for the rest of your life. The topics covered will go outside your comfort zone, and that's a really good thing. People who are successful at college know that they're getting much, much more than a certification for their job of choice.

Many people will tell you that college sucks, and you don't learn anything. Trying to be kind, that's because they suck at college. They were the kind of people who partied until 12 hours before their final 7 page essay was due, and were so plastered that they pounded out a steaming pile of hot brown stuff. They say college sucks because they didn't do it right, and so they feel like it is inherently a bad deal.

It's not. If you do it right--do all your work before the last minute, be an active participant in your college community (organize hackathons, run a {insert language} club, enter your work in student shows), and actively network with professors, you will succeed. Get your work done as soon as you can, make good progress if you can't finish it in one sitting, and you will still have time to do things like have side projects, be on social networks, and have freinds. Don't settle for anything less than an A.

If you want to talk more about this, feel free to email me: bitnb at subvertising dot org.

As theunamedguy said, open-source is pretty cool. If you contribute in a significant way to a couple major projects (programming languages, like Python or Ruby, major platforms like Rails, Sinatra, Node, io.js, major libraries like Underscore.js, Angular, Ember, etc.) that will look really good on your resume.

Also, if you keep hacking away at side projects until you get a few successful ones under your belt (like tiny libraries, for animation, forms, markup, the command line, etc.) that will also show that you're competent and know your stuff.

Just wanted to say: Fellow college student here. I'm still working on getting the first real foundation of programming down, but I think we're in a pretty good spot.

It's a pretty big stretch to call your application a "Reddit for podcasts" when you only have an iOS application. The biggest part of Reddit is its web interface (and associated plugins), and your app doesn't attempt that.

> So you spend a month learning how to almost be able to write a for loop in JavaScript, and then you realize you have no idea why you would ever need to know what a for loop is, and even less of an idea of why it's useful.

This is a carbon copy of my life as a programmer right now.

I've made the decision to just fucking do it about 50 times, but each time I get barely started and get so frustrated with myself for not understanding and not knowing what to look for that I give up. I know that's another point where I just have to sit, searching, until I find the answer, but it seems that from my profound lack of understanding of the basics of the language (JavaScript; despite doing the Codecademy course, and the CodeSchool Node.js and Express.js courses) that I will have to do that for every minute step that I take in the program. It just seems so overwhelming that I become paralyzed in my desire to push on, but feeling that I know I won't make any progress.

The Dunning-Kruger effect pretty much sums up myself. I feel like I have a firm grasp on the structure and syntax of JS, but now I'm questioning whether I really do. I always feel awful, as I can't really implement anything, and am always frustrated when I can't get off the ground starting a project.

I just don't know how to actually _do things_ with code. So, in essence, I think I know the language, and in a sense I do insofar as I know how to write an if else statement, a while statement, declare a variable, etc., but I _don't_ actually know the language, because I can't do anything with what little I do know.

Do you have any advice?