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Impressive visual design and extensive copywriting in the promo parts of the app. The idea is heavily tried and a very busy market i should say. Best of luck then to the dev(s)

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Facebook is leaving its comfort zone. Pretty brave move

one of the most annoying things in history kinda sorta relieved

The fact that you haven't been noticed yet doesn't make this an acceptable method. Basically the article is all about gaming the social networks and getting away with it in favor of publicity for your product or service. I don't think anyone can go very far with such dodgy methods

when everyone is trying to do the opposite (remove js from your html so that both are mean, see angularjs and similar), this one is extraordinary. I believe it has a fundamental flaw though. If someone is comfortable with this level of js, then she wouldn't bother probably having them inter-mixed. On the other hand for those who don't like a high doze js in their lives, this looks even scarier. So I think, it is not a niche but a deserting island market segment to aim for. Still, who am i to judge, all the luck to the maintainers

One actually gives birth to the other...

brilliant... i always hated adding weirdo js for such standard tasks, polluting the content with meta-code/meta-content ugliness!

Odd stuff are a part of Java in all levels.. But being a seasoned java guy, i can say that you don't need to bear the ugliness. You can just get the plethora of high quality libraries and all the good JVM performance and reject the weird AbstractSomethingFactoryLocatorFactoryBean shit...

Having developed for BB before, I cannot tell how bad their toolchain and libraries and HW/SW protocol layers are. I highly doubt that they can fix all these in one big fat major release. Considering the fact that RIM is bleeding, this may be their one and only chance though. Good luck RIM, it is always good to have more options in the market...

REST API bound simplistic and stateless frontends are easier said than done. Does anyone know a DRY way of achieving this. I like the AngularJS approach of keeping state(of DOM - a.k.a what the user sees) and let it flow. But still, as a Javascript noob, every library seems messy and unworkable :(

Any advice on this?

It's a lot like coding... YAGNI and KISS are the first things i teach new coders. Otherwise the burden they carry gets heavier and heavier as they add new languages or technologies to their arsenal. You wouldn't believe how many people lack this very simplistic understanding!