curiously

I don't like this. This is akin to censorship.

very good.

do you get to build a portfolio through the nano degree program?

Which of the three nanodegrees did you find most useful? Does the full stack and front-end nanodegrees cross over? doesn't the full stack not cover front-end stuff?

The data-analyst is really interesting, do you need to brush up on statistics and such before you get into it?

Did you receive offers for data analyst/scientist positions?

How did you land job offers?

Does udacity teach how to perform on technical interviews?

Did you pay $600/month for all three nano degrees?

Basically I want to take it to learn all the stuff. I already have worked as a developer but just want an complete upgrade (been a LAMP dev for too long).

all I can say is holy crap.

but wonder if this can translate into increased situational awareness or just more distractions

I have similar worries about Steam but at least we still get the games. I miss having the physical case and the cd like the good old 90s and early 2000s.

>They don't care if you know the framework or even the language.

Good luck telling that to a recruiter.

"Oh looks like you don't have 5 years of experience on a super esoteric framework released last year. Great we'll talk soon."

6 months planned and you get it done in 2 weeks...something tells me you should not be in project management.

I don't think the author is intimidated by a framework rather highlighting there is greater opportunity cost associated with learning a framework and having to bend to it's will instead of writing code that does not rely on a monolithic framework.

The author appears to have solid understanding of the principles and it takes deep knowledge and experience to call out bubbles. Successful investors often take similar contrarian views, carefully weighing what is simply exuberance of the herd vs facts.

As you mention, time is required, to fully dig deep into someone's framework. At the end of the day, a framework is like software. you need time to learn it. when you use it in cases where you don't absolutely need it to do a job, you are affected by marketing or herd mentality.

'Everybody uses it so it must be right'. ex) MongoDB.

Everybody suddenly needed NoSQL. you started hearing recruiters ramble on about NoSQL and the urgent need to fill it. Then you start fiddling with it and you end up firing your entire team because they built their church on a questionable sand (MongoDB) and run into all sorts of problems.

I often feel like developers freely toss around frameworks or use new things because they are bored and want to try things differently. Ewww server side render pages are so 2005. I won't touch anything that isn't JS. No, I want this my blog built in Node.js so it can serve millions of yet to come visitors.

Again and again I'm reminded of turf wars where people's job rely on identifying with one set of philosophy even if they are as crazy as writing tests before you code and expect things to not fail.

boy I'd hate to have paid full sticker price to manipulate a streaming video on the screen than buy the actual game itself.

this idea is so crazy it just might work but need to see some more examples.

one might be a crazy heavy SPA or javascript webpage that lags and show it through HTMLGL.

this really could go somewhere, the idea is solid but it might take some work to actually deliver, a constant fps web.

is this a Java stack or Node.js? I haven't really used Java in a long time.

here's my question for those building their 'app' 'startup' with meteor.js

what does it accomplish for you that normal server rendered framework doesn't do for you?

when you build a meteor.js app you need phantomjs to get it indexed...it won't work on older browsers....the list goes on

I just have trouble justifying why I would need to write my next app using meteor.js

any dates on when you might see that happening? postgresql support would be a massive game breaker move.

my gripes with meteor are:

not sure how ddp works or how to scale a meteor app. does not work with postgresql or any other db.

The biggest issue for me is the tight coupling to MongoDB.

Background: we used Meteor back in mid 2013. we ended up wasting a lot of time and resources because we had to learn everything. when we did, it did not perform so well, over 1MB going back and forth for what could've been achieved with a simple LAMP or ROR app. I think they've dropped Meteor completely.

Anyways, the windows support is nice. Might give it another go now. Not sure what the deal is with MongoDB 3.0. I've been using postgresql entirely now.

still waiting for the windows version

wanted to see how a tool like https://scrape.it would do on a site like this, took about less than a few minutes to create.

https://scrape.it/pub/collections.si.edusearchresults.htmtag...

I wanna know the tech behind this button. is it sending 3g signals to amazon?

add canada. especially when you live 3 hour drive away.

could you run Pycharms on this?

or install ubuntu instead of chromeOS?

well i wasn't smart enough to get into standford and i already paid my student loans so...

could you do it after you go through this exercises?

Where would you go after you've compeleted these exercises?

so with all the surveillance in the city they don't know who's been putting these things up?

very cool! although I feel more comfortable with using jQuery for posting.

There's so much frontend jobs now that as much as I hate it and no it's wrong, I am forced to learn it to keep up.

There's just no choice. The stakeholders have decided suddenly JS is the new way to write apps, these type of people won't know how to code if you put a gun to their heads, even worse are developers refusing to use conventional tools like PHP or Python or Ruby for writing server backends.

I've never forced JS or SPA on someone that had no place for it but unfortunately they are willing to pay more to have it rewritten in JS.

what's the license behind this? can I fork it to create my own spin on it or contribute to this project?

can I contribute to this game or fork it? God I can't stop playing it!

I played on the blue team for the last 15 minutes or so...one like 10 times

spawn kill is a huge flaw in this game. for example, i just lurk around the spawn and just kill anything..

What stood out to me was the graphics in Crash bandicoot series. They always looked very good compared to other games which has the weird jumpy textures and very rough looking meshes.

I must say going with very minimal texture on Crash is intriguing. FF7 also uses very little I believe during combat, they all look like color shaded mesh but it clearly looks good on Crash.

All these development stories from 90s is fascinating, especially because there's a fond childhood attachment to the PSX.

On one of the Playstation Underground Magazine discs there are entire series on the development on Crash Bandicoot. These are truly a gem. Myself having watched the entire series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSYlbS5vGNA

could be a bad phone. my skype mobile app used to crash all the time but I switched to a faster Android phone and its smooth.

Interesting...so does it only work on modern browsers?