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When done correctly and performantly, animations in web apps allow for a user experience that is closer to that of native apps.

If available in all major browsers, I'd use it for collapsable horizontal/vertical navigation panes/bars.

Sure! Will do. Honestly, I was just building it for myself, so no mailing list. But I'd be excited to see how you like it.

The problem I'm aiming to solve is nested route animations, and allowing for different animations to be applied depending upon the previous route in history.

I'm literally working on a lib to solve this right now, specifically to be used with react-router. If you want I can contact you when finished and you can give it a whirl.

Implementation will look something like <TransitionGroupRoutes><CSSTransitionRoute path="..."/><CSSTransitionRoute path="..."/></TransitionGroupRoutes>

I agree. Coding is not fun because writing a command that a machine can compute is inherently enjoyable. Coding is fun because you can manipulate a machine and build something you want that didn't exist before.

I downloaded GameSalad one weekend. My 6-year-old son and I ran through the tutorial which took about an hour. Part way through he got distracted. He spent about 20 minutes changing movement speed properties, object colors, & sizes. I was happy to see him get engaged and just start experimenting. While he did not learn how to code, the seed was planted that creating mobile games is something within his reach.

You have to take into account a person's expectations of themselves as well as the scope of what they are trying to learn. If your expectations are overly ambitious, it's hard. If you are trying to learn to code some narrowly scoped solution, then its simple.

There are a number of things you can do to improve performance of queries generated by ORMs.

* Make sure you are indexing properly

* limit the number of items returned by introducing paging

* use lazy loading where applicable

I'm sure there are other techniques, but these are my gotos.

It appears to me that this is a tool to identify a market / need that is not being met.

There are people who simply want a product/service, no desire for ownership. They post what they'd be will to pay for it, as a customer, and you decide if it is worth your time to build it.

Anyone? Am I understanding this correctly?

As far as I have observed, the only thing people consistently respond to is pain. This can be done through the introduction / removal / or threat of pain. It'd be nice if we all empathized more with other people's pain, but that doesn't appear to be the culture that we live in. Maybe there are cultures that do elsewhere, but I am unaware of them.

But I do have a question for you, when the interests of those with influence align with the ignored, why would your initial reaction be a negative one?

For me, it's fear, fear of being dependent upon an economic/labor system that does not favor labor. If you are not an owner, and make a living selling your time, you are threatened by both outsourcing and automation.

As a programmer / engineer / whatever label you want to give, it is a little easier for us to adjust to changing labor conditions because our careers, as long as not overly specialized, require constant learning.

But I'd prefer not to live a life competing with people all over the globe, or being blindsided by some tech that can execute a majority of my responsibilities as an employee.

"This might be controversial, but I don't think you get to be a half decent developer without being a reasonable sysadmin."

Couldn't this argument be applied to any developer for any discipline/speciality?

Sure, more knowledge/context is always better if reasonable to attain, but my experience suggests that your above concerns could also be addressed via team organization rather than expecting all developers to know all things.

You were originally correct. They currently have one book specific to California.

They do have federal books as well that apply nation wide, but as most lawyers are highly specialized, that may not apply to what you do?

I'll reach out to them. I used to do some contract coding for them. They may have more books for Cali that haven't made it to the marketing site.