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Comment · 9 years ago
The difference between front and backend web applications is nothing more but where the views are rendered - which on client side also means managing state and IO.

This means Rails and Angular are doing the same job - the main difference is where data keeping and rendering is done.

Comment · 9 years ago
I don't think this is legal anywhere in Europe (is it?). I've also read that it's illegal in California, USA. In what regions is it allowed?
Comment · 9 years ago
What I personally found is that the days when I go straight home, have some food and then get coding, I get nothing done at home. Instead I feel stressed and it's no fun. Not a good way.

When I instead pass the gym on the way home and work my body hard for an hour it works much better. Then I go home hungry like a wolf and devour a meal, and I feel more inspired for my projects than I did during the "regular" work day.

My conclusion is that sitting life isn't how we evolved - and when I fix my body-use deficiency I unlock all that potential.

Comment · 9 years ago
If you are interested in following this idea even further, try Reagent in Clojurescript out. It works in the same way - it's all data.

An example:

    (let [greeting [:div {:style {:background "green"}} "hello"]]
      [:section#hi-there greeting])
Just a little bit of data!
Comment · 9 years ago
I think it's more accessible - my designer friend felt sorry for me when working because I had "no pictures". Front end development usually means GUI programming, where graphics is the first world.

You don't need to learn about data structures, count in binary and you instantly see graphical, useable results. It's a gateway drug.

Comment · 9 years ago
I think you have yourself a solid company idea right there. Go for it.
Comment · 9 years ago
True. I don't understand why many of us programmers are not interested in tools that eliminate the possibility of errors?

* Why do we use memoy-unsafe languages (except when Rust or GC is unusable)? * Why do we use type-unsafe languages, at all? * Why do we use state-unsafe (mutable) languages, at all?

Of course there are exceptions to these - but they are few.

Comment · 9 years ago
One of the reasons I prefer paying with Bitcoin over credit card, is that when using cryptocurrency I don't have to give them they key to my account - instead they give me an inbox that I send the value into.

Guessing a lot of credit card details are ripe for picking in the data they leaked.

Comment · 9 years ago
HaveIBeenPwnd must be having a great day today!
Comment · 9 years ago
For others who don't know how much an American ton is, 6 mil of them = (5.44 * (10^9)) kilograms.
Comment · 9 years ago
Which is why I leave my door unlocked.
Comment · 9 years ago
Personally, I fail to see how that would be (except for stock holders of arms companies etc). Surely the American state would save a ton of money by having their army shrunk by 1/3.

Population control? Is the US worried about there being too dense population of arabs in the world? I don't think that's true - and not for when they waged war in Korea or Vietnam either.

Seems to me war is only good for absolutely nothing.

Comment · 9 years ago
War! What is it good for?
Comment · 9 years ago
Cheers for the example. The Commons-Net library was where I ended up after some searching - so my experience is of someone who wants to get from 0 to 100 asap.

Cheers and have a good day!

Comment · 9 years ago

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