well said, Joe - author of article
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As opposed to a front project or a back project, a side project is one that someone works on outside of their main job/project. A main job/project is one that someone puts most of their time into.
Does this help?
Please feel free to email me directly at kevin at bostinnovation dot com if you wanna chat about this further.
http://bostinnovation.com/2011/01/15/who-is-using-node-js-an...
"most versions of Chrome have gone from performing a little over a thousand children() operations per second in jQuery 1.4 to around 20,000 in jQuery 1.5″.
I guess the lesson learned from the tumblr downtime is don't piss off 4Chan
"Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs. In the "hello world" web server example above, many client connections can be handled concurrently. Node tells the operating system (through epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, or select) that it should be notified when a new connection is made, and then it goes to sleep. If someone new connects, then it executes the callback. Each connection is only a small heap allocation.
This is in contrast to today's more common concurrency model where OS threads are employed. Thread-based networking is relatively inefficient and very difficult to use. See: this and this."
In programming or technical environments, there are literally thousands of factors that come into play, so to avoid the inclusion of all of them, I kept it brief.
Is there any different way you'd phrase the above?