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I'll have to check that out - thanks!

interesting find. It's a wonder that JS is moving into everything.

I have a pretty solid understanding of AngularJS, and I can't really think of any project that really <i>requires</i> jQuery.

I guess that was the problem I faced when I started down the OOJS - what do I exactly use this for? I understand that it's a great way for reuse & extending, but aside from giant applications with numerous developers, is it really useful?

I agree to a certain degree - I think the biggest problem that the author had was the unrealistic expectation of the employer.

Way I see it, it's always going to be a struggle between what the company wants (more for less) and what the employee can produce. It's like when you hire someone to do something for you - you expect them to do the best job, on-time, for the best price.

Passion is writing code knowing that it's not perfect but another step towards becoming better.

What really is crap code anyways?

Isn't that what the author was saying? just be focused in your work and be sure to give the company the value they deserve?

If only the elected officials would see it the same way.

Maybe I'm just naive. But I'd like to think that immigration is for a greater cause than for companies to make more money.

What makes a great programmer? And what does this great programmers do? We have had and still have a vast number of great programmers in US and churning our more and more, but what do they do? is it greatness that they seek? if so, why are more programmers involved in scientific research? I really want to agree with your views, but for now it seems that immigration is an issue for one market sector, and last time I looked, that market sector isn't out to change the world.

I'm an immigrant, served in USMC, after service had to pay and take a test to become a citizen (funny right? can die for the country but won't let me be a citizen).

I love my country(both), but when did immigration become something to benefit the corporations?

flat design is trending because we have so many "designers" who can't design.

animation is bit choppy and jumpy. This goes completely against the animation principal that google's Material UI talks about.

every interaction should have a logical purpose behind it. clicking is a natural form of selection, swiping is more geared towards movement.

sure you can turn it off, but wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose?

but don't you think that someone staring at their watch during a conversation (or even in large meeting) is quite rude and distracting?

that was exactly what I was thinking.

I never understood why the external resource is such a concern for devs - most of your application will be online with online access. Google is not making a call out to send data, but to retrieve what it needs to render the different chart formats, it saves time.

I guess there in lies my question - d3 makes it easy to marry the data to a dom, making it easy to add interactivity. So, i guess why would I chose to use Dc rather than to use d3 with crossfilter.js?

Could anyone explain the benefit of using Dc.js vs google charts API or d3.js? Crossfilter seems really cool - but since it's another library, what is it that Dc is offering?

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the last paragraph should be a required reading for all designers.

I couldn't agree more.

it would be perfect if there was a manual way of doing it.

My parents made a lot of financial mistakes and lost everything when I was 19. I joined the military to support myself and to save some money for college. I never did get to attend college, but I managed to attend and graduate from a certification program aimed on graphic & web design. I've been a front-end developer for the last 7 years.

I'll be honest, it hasn't been easy - I studied my ass off to learn what I know now and I've always had to prove myself from skeptical employers from my lack of a college degree. Still, I get excited internal recruiters calling me only to back off once they learn of my education history.

But the opportunity is there, You just need to know EXACTLY what you want to do. Once you figure that out, then your age becomes irrelevant.

One last thing - job will always suck, that's why you have hobbies. Don't look for the perfect job, just do the job perfectly.

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problem is that too many mediocre programers identify themselves as the Alpha engineer.

Well, as a front-end developer I'm pretty comfortable using a lot of technology (Ruby to .NET)

My proposal is to really have companies to align their resources for shared knowledge. I think the managers would have to be the one to make the call about what information is being accessed by that said employee.

Maybe if companies like google and yahoo stops forking over billions for acqui-hire, the madness will slow.

Because Godaddy usually ignores these type of concerns, unless its brought to light via other credible sources.