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Making the argument for Node.js
So my company is planning on introducing a new platform for our clients and they are planning firing up a new team to do so. I think it will be a relatively small with 4 or 5 devs. Right now the rumblings are for either Java or .net, primarily because of the ease of finding developers in our area. Currently everything is made in PHP and turn around time has been a huge problem, the codebase is also a huge mess for various reasons.

I want to make the case for switching to Node, but I'm struggling on how to make this argument to managers that are less technically inclined. What they are looking to accomplish isn't that complicated and believe that it could be rolled out dramatically faster with node.

Has anyone had to deal with recommendations like this in the past? How would you make the case for Node?

I'll try to keep up with the comments as much as I can through the day to answer any questions people may have.
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I don't like the closed sound of that. All those armbands - and to some degree my Withings weight makes it so hard to share and utilize my data in more interesting ways, especially for those of us who want to plot our data with d3.js.

I want to use this data to show to my doctor, not myself. And free, exportable access to all my data would allow me to create a simple static webpage displaying all my biometrics.
This is speculation parading as news.
Retina/HiDPI displays will reduce eyestrain and should lead to more reading
FMacVim: Yet another Vim "distribution" (MacVim + plugins + configs) but simpler
They kinda tried this a hundred years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_(Bookshelf)
Does distributed always mean a complex multi-tier web application?
I posed what I think is a similar question to a friend of mine that I'm designing a node.js app with. I thought that being in JavaScript, it would handle everything a lot more fluidly, like web apps such as koding.com. In reality, it's just another MVC framework entirely based in JS (let me know if I'm phrasing this wrong).

I'm unsure if for the type of apps we're talking about it's just the way they handle the loading of their site or if it's the framework it is based upon, but he forwarded me to Meteor (http://meteor.com/) and told me that that was probably what I was looking for.

If someone could chime in on this - and sorry for being so obtuse - I'd be super grateful.
for what it's worth, I use "natural scrolling" in mountain lion
Is the world prepared for driverless cars? Are you?
They have to varying degrees moved to my phone - with the exception of my watch. To the extent they are digital and not physical, they moved to my phone from my computer not my pocket.

With the exception of the rolodex, none are on the net - and the rolodex is only on the net because that's required for syncing my computer and phone.

The big advantage of a stack of notecards over iNotecards is that physical cards can be rearranged added to and edited easily, directly and without an internet connection. This may make them better to their purpose, which is as a teaching tool not as an object to be efficiently managed.

Don't get me wrong, there may be a place for digital notecards - but low tech may be the best answer for most situations.
There is joke that best Win32 implementation is Wine on Ubuntu :-)
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Re: #2, from http://www.zensorium.com/tinke/specs.html:

WARNING

Tinké is NOT a medical device. Tinké and its associated
applications should not be used to diagnose, treat, or
prevent any disease or medical condition. Always seek
the advice of a qualified medical professional.

It seems like the same type of logic applied to over-the-counter drugs that call themselves supplements -- it's not a "drug" if the marketers don't make certain claims. In the case of Tinké, they are providing a means for collecting data and do not make any claims that the product will directly affect your health.
He was facing potentially 35 years in jail, not 2-3 years.
Do most people really use the gui?

I find it pretty horrible and try to avoid it.
Of course with any subculture there's going to be some amount of superiority. I would still claim that there's a lot more arrogance in the IT industry today, even or maybe especially among celebrated companies like Google, Apple and Facebook.
I didn't say that ECMA created or endorsed C#. I said that it's an ECMA standard because no matter how much posturing anyone wants to do, it is one.

Features of C# 3.0 and 4.0 have too been included in the ECMA standard. So yes, we can definitely refer to C# as an ECMA language...for crying out loud. The standard is not updated as often as Microsoft or Mono release a new version of their runtime (ohnoes!), just like web standards when a browser Mfr. comes out with a new feature.
This would be Glenn Fleishman who figured it out. He's one of us. Has an awesome twitter feed @GlennF.
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It's actually simpler than you think - just use a lot of absolute positioning. Inspect the source code of grooveshark and gmail to see how they do it.
I've been experimenting with the R/D3 setup as well and so far I really like it. Another thing that's great is that for any sort of traditional data visualization R has you covered, leaving D3 for what it's best at: custom and/or interactive visualization.

Interestingly enough almost all my coding has been in the browser since I've been using Tributary [http://tributary.io/] for D3 prototyping and RStudio Server for R (which is amazing if you haven't tried it)

Although I haven't used it yet, it's worth mentioning Shiny from the RStudio team http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/ which makes it pretty painless (so I hear) to create interactive R visualizations.
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Truth: http://jonas.lophus.org/2013/1/on-the-state-of-linux-on-the-...
Having them pop out of existence is jarring; maybe have them fade to near-invisible.
Perhaps a better word is specialization.

Most of us are armchair astrophysicists at best and we should not be so spontaneously dismissive. If there is something in all of this, we'll hear about it soon enough from the scientific community. In the meantime we should be conservative in how we depict the scientists and publications involved.
I'm not sure if this is the result of a high-priced government contractor boondoggle. The U.S. judiciary isn't a monolithic entity. Each circuit, each district, and even each judge have a great deal of autonomy, and administrative matters are completely decentralized. There's not even a single uniform website for the various courts. Compare the page for the eastern district of Pennsylvania (http://www.paed.uscourts.gov) with the page for the northern district of Illinois (http://www.ilnd.uscourts.gov) and the 7th circuit (http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov). The only thing they all share is the domain!

What it looks like to me is the usual scenario in decentralized organizations. Different pieces adopted systems as the need for them arose, and various systems were layered on top over that over the years to try and achieve some uniformity in certain areas.
reflect*, Sir.
http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/14/apple-iphone-5-display-ord...
Why Bootstrapped Startups Don’t Get Media Attention
I think the 35 years is still important because the law allows the prosecutor to charge that, which is thoroughly insane and needs to be fixed, notwithstanding that the problem there is with the law rather than the prosecutor.

Moreover, it allows prosecutors to threaten defendants with that and coerce even the innocent into plea bargains, and coerce those guilty of minor offenses into plea bargains for multi-year prison terms because the alternative is to risk multi-decade prison terms, which is a problem with the conduct of prosecutors when they choose to do that.
Thanks for posting, as a foreigner who hit the valley 'green' about 3 years ago all 5 points resonated. Its far too easy to underestimate the pragmatic concerns of dealing with a new culture and its social rituals, and how much time that actually takes away from building your product, enjoying new experiences, with partner or otherwise, and finding the comfortable balance. Simple things like credit lines (they don't exist for foreigners!), drivers licenses, insurance... the real basic things, can be massive pain points that locals will simply not understand.

The fact is, unless you're already hustling American-style, foreigners without established networks and a story ready to tell about their projects are going to sit on the sidelines (in the trough of sorrow) for a very long time. This could be a function of the transient nature of those who call SF their home, and its inherent social liquidity not facilitating deeper social connection... but I do know once you're "in", it's amazing, and doors will open.

Its hard, but glad to have stuck with it.
Great list! I'm currently trying to teach myself some ROR and have been trying to think of ideas...this list will be great help.
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The second someone works for the FBI, with that being their main motive and only plan, they may be a lot of things, but hardly a hacker. I guess everybody has their own definition, but to me this is like saying "water needs dry surfaces".
Beyond heart rate, I guess the bigger question is how valuable is all of this data for the average, relatively healthy, individual? There is probably some fluctuation in our daily heart rate and O2 sats, etc. that we are not even aware of, and are in all likelihood irrelevant, but this could potentially make one a little paranoid.
I could see this as coming in handy in a healthcare setting, such as a nursing facility where patients are recovering while receiving physical therapy, and need to be more carefully monitored. But functionality is going to be more important in that setting than design is, and you're probably paying a bit of a premium here for design.
The End of Labor: How to Protect Workers From the Rise of Robots
https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front
Using your example 7 x 7 = 49

seven [2] times [1] seven [2] equals [1] forty-nine [3] = 9

七[1] 乘[1] 七[1] 如[1] 四十九 [3] = 7 (without using primary school mnemonics)

七[1] 七[1] 四十九 [3] = 5 (using primary school mnemonics)

Even at that primitive level, a change of language can give you a 23% and 45% speed-up of basic arithmetic operations, respectively.
Create stack traces for unhandled JavaScript Exceptions in all major Browsers
US District Court drops charges against Aaron Swartz
Borrowlenses is pretty awesome, too, and has a formidable reputation.
And here is the court order that stopped the deletion of publication.com
Actually the answer was 7.
Not having read the article: it's a bit late for that now.
That's an important point, that Rails presumes database backing, and dynamic sites are inherently more complicated that static pages.
Just curious, where did you source this data from? I'm working on a student planner[1] that's currently limited to .edu emails, and we used a CSV file from the DoE, but I'm always curious if there are other sources for this data too.

[1]: http://tabuleapp.com
The ones that use the iPhone's camera can get heart rate, but I have not seen one that can get blood oxygen level.
The Economist writes spectacular obituaries. The editors work on them to fine polish - Ray Bradbury's was in development for many weeks before seeing publication.

On the one hand, I was surprised that Swartz was the subject this week. On the other, it comes as no surprise. Ink has been devoted to what it takes to be worthy of a New York Times obituary. That Aaron Swartz's death made the Economist speaks to the deep impact that his life's work has had.
This looks incredible. How does it work though? Project mounted behind where you sit or a pico projector positioned by the TV?

Also, Microsoft has said they want the next Xbox to launch at $299 or lower. I wonder if this will ship with the Xbox or be an accessory at launch?
Don't forget about this: https://github.com/infogami/infogami/branches
Thanks! Fixed. Any suggestions on button colors?
I first thought of "multiply" in the biblical sense when I read the title.
I could not agree more. The defaults are there for a reason. There are brilliant people out there building awesome software with those defaults.

When teaching rails, I always tell people to get familiar with the defaults first then try the alternatives and make an informed decision to switch (if at all necessary).
Yes being a newb all of shay's guides have been awesome and probably the best guides out there today!
What would help Rails the most is probably some example projects. They could be anything ranging from simple twitter clones to maybe full on e-commerce stores or something. Build them using the "golden path" and maybe someone else could build the same thing using the "prime" stack.

When I started the Obvious architecture, writing an example app made it concrete and makes it a lot easier to explain particular details or structures to people wanting to learn.

People love examples.
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Glad I could help. Good luck with ROR. Ruby is a beautiful language.
JSTOR's database is scholarly articles going back about 500 years. These papers were written not-for-profit for the public good by academics and then peer reviewed (for free) by other academics. This represents our shared cultural knowledge, it belongs to everyone of us, and should be 100% freely available. And indeed much of it is in the public domain anyway since copyright has lapsed.

Whether the gate-keeper is nonprofit or not isn't really important. In point of fact, the entire system of journals charging fees for access to academic papers is outdated and broken, and is merely a parasitic relic from an age where it cost large sums of money to print and distribute paper-based media. Remember that universities pay a fee to access journals, and sometimes even pay a fee to have their papers published in journals, all the while generating and peer reviewing the content at their own expense.

In other words we can do better. And we should do better. By releasing JSTOR's content publicly Aaron was engaging in activism for the common good. You're welcome to your opinion that he deserved the book throwing at him and a $1M legal bill, but (in my opinion) you should think again.
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I'm thinking of starting an ipod/iphone/pc repair business with a few of my friends. We live in a wealthy, old aged community and I think the turnover could be significant.
Does anyone have any advice on how much I should start with if I'm bootstrapping? How about what I should do for advertising? Would Newspaper ads be worth it?
I for one would love to see the plugin site stay down. There are just way too many terribly written and inflexible plugins around that are mostly reinventions of other terribly written and inflexible plugins. The people in the jQuery ecosystem really need to learn some proper OOP. At the very least, you should be able to do what the Bootstrap's jQuery plugins do - write your own UI class, wrap it around with the jQuery plugin namespace, and send a custom event for every action the class takes. No more stupid callbacks.

Having the plugin site down the past year had been a breath of fresh air. I've discovered a dozen or so truly great plugins purely by world of mouth. I can't tell you how much better this filter is than the searching and rating and commenting stuff on the old plugin site.
Stack traces are a great thing, but I'm not sure what this link is pointing too.
Because front-end development is changing so fast, what I've had to do is simply start looking at website galleries and find sites where I like how they've implemented certain features.

Then I try and replicate it, switch it up and work with it. For me, this is a lot better than waiting for someone to show these techniques in a basic tutorial.

You might interested in learning about parallax scrolling as well. It's getting more popular, but its Achilles heel is its not mobile friendly at all.

I'll keep the list short:
http://html5gallery.com/ - this is one of my favorites since it gives a review of each site and what the developer could've done better.
http://webcreme.com/
http://cssremix.com/
http://www.webdesign-inspiration.com/
http://www.designfridge.co.uk/
As someone who once had the mindset of "I'll just find someone to build it for me" this post definitely hits some great points for anyone wanting to work on even a weekend project to consider.

Even learning some of the basics has made a huge difference in working with others for me. Being able to communicate and understand what a developer is talking about makes a world of difference when building something.
No, I don't think that. If you think that I do based on so little evidence, then you're clearly out of touch with reality, a lot.
It's all about incentives and incentives not always work arithmetically. Also note, that symmetrical funding will mean costs inflation - if defendant gets a million, prosecutor probably would have to spend more on prosecution, since now he has to overcome a million-dollar lawyers. So those cases that get to trial would be much more than twice expensive as before - because while prosecutors have huge resources behind them, they rarely use all of them, unless the other side has equally huge resources. If you force resource match, every case would require all huge resources. And this means incentive to not let that happen would increase dramatically, because the difference is between quick case close in couple of days and prolonged attrition battle with complete involvement of all resources.

>>>> Additionally I would propose that in some random subset of accepted plea bargains, a trial is forced

So, let's say the defendant pleads out and the jury can not convict him because of whatever stupid thing. How it makes prosecutor necessarily bad? Remember in the recent case of Blagoyevich outright selling senate seat the jury could not convict him because one of the jurors thought it's just politics as usual and there's nothing criminal was going on? How something like that makes prosecutor bad? Juries are never certain. It would be hugely unfair and would definitely drive good ones from the job, because good people are usually sensitive to unfairness. Bad people would stay and manipulate the system so that their cases either don't get randomly selected somehow or get to a sympathetic judge, or some such.
Aaron Swartz: Why I Am Not Gay
... like this heart rate monitor: http://www.azumio.com/apps/heart-rate/ (I didn't think it was possible until I saw it myself.)
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I don't know about courses but I read The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman more than 10 years ago and it profoundly changed my life.

Obviously it doesn't only deal with UI design but I really recommend it if you're looking for a place to jump off from.

Be warned, once you read it you'll find yourself becoming extraordinarily annoyed by certain types of doors.

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
The OP criticizes the manifesto for essentially saying "I'm smarter than you, so I'm entitled to do whatever I want"... and your response is essentially "That's true, but let's face it, I am really, really, really a lot smarter than you." I'd venture that you missed the point.
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It's humbling to be in my twenties and read about someone who had done so much at an even younger age.
> If all we know now is all there is to the story, that's a gross abuse on the part of Stephen Heymann's office.

And there you were saying we never agree on anything... you may have to re-visit that position.

Now where we dis-agree is the bit where you think that what Swartz did could have been charged as a felony. This side-steps the question of intent and that is normally a big part of any criminal suit.
It's a shame that the old computing culture is dead. VX scene, demoscene, crack scene, ... Everything that used to be interesting for the curious is dead.

Now we have... web development and "front end engineering" and "value creation" which rule the game. It really pisses me off that I care about none of these. I care for technical superiority with scarce resources, but today no such domains exist really. Really depressing.
By the way, if you or you children need a quick and easy way to practice mental calculations, find an implementation of the game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_chiffres_et_des_lettres on your phone.
It's also possible that live diatoms were ejected and subsequently fossilized. Or even possibly that they continued to live and reproduce in space (diatoms are ~algae, so they really only need water and sunlight).
"It also brings personal wellness to a social platform."

Fuck everything being social. I am super interested in my health and fitness but for my own edification, not to broadcast it to the world.

(I'm sure it's an optional feature, but, seriously, being social has to make everyone's MVP now.)
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But he'd still be bankrupt even if he beat these charges. That defending yourself and winning could still ruin your life is something else that is terribly wrong here. After all, that means that guilty or not you're going to be punished, and punished hard.
Really good website! Not sure it adds much value. Can someone ELI5 (explain like I am 5) why blood oxygen level is important?
The point here is that the prosecution didn't threaten Aaron with 35 years. They were explicit about what they expected to get at trial. When they were trying to scare him, they scared him with a 6-7 year figure.

It is, obviously, an extremely troubling fact that the prosecutors in this particular case decided to try to scare the shit out of the defendant to get him to cop to 13 felonies.
As a former conspiracy lover, I always find it interesting Kaspersky tends to find more state sponsored hacking than any other company.

Is this something they specialize in, or is it simply a coincidence?
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You have to keep in mind this was a different time. There were no Free unixlike operating systems with full source code available, and no immensely powerful PCs to run them on. There was no world wide web with every bit of information available. There were few practical ways of learning how computers worked except by breaking into them and studying them.
For someone who has written dozens of applications and has already experienced such pain, why would they head straight back into it instead of starting with the best tools?
Precisely. There's a difference in criticism with the intent of being constructive and that being destructive or only for the purpose of inflating one's ego.

Tone.
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I`m just looking for any deign or program direction
If you're already using Scala, why do you need Node?

What does Node give you that a Scala async framework like Play or Scalatra doesn't?

Also what does Ruby give you that Scala doesn't?

Just wondering why do you choose to use 3 stacks (Ruby, Scala, Node) when one could be enough.
There seems to be some attacks against the authors and the publication. And seems like that is somewhat justified. But what about the interesting images? Assuming that they are authentic (and I believe that is a fair assumption even in the case that the authors are crackpots), they imho warrant closer look, even if you'd skip all the fluff that is the speculation from the authors.