> The 4 months of “hell” were really not that bad looking back at it now. All of this taught me a great lesson in humility and resourcefulness. It also taught me to be kind and loving to your fellow man all the while making sure to “pay it forward”.
But it didn't teach them to save a year's living expenses so they'd never get into this situation again? I wonder what is protecting them from becoming homeless if they fall on hard time again -- probably nothing. With that said, this was a really engrossing read and should reinforce the idea that responsible spending is absolutely key to a comfortable life for those of us who perhaps don't appreciate our nest egg of savings quite as much as we should.
Quite the contrary. The whole homeless experience has taught me to save every penny I can in an "oh shit" or "emergency" fund. These days I'm well protected and typically have 5-6 months worth of expenses in case the bottom drops out again.
If you had advanced warning that you would go through the same financial hardship, what would you do differently?
Have you considered driving an offroad vehicle out to BLM or USFS lands and subsisting there for free? You can live indefinitely without paying rent in some places.
This app just facilitates short-sighted abuse of commercial infrastructure while opening clients up to a massive security vulnerability. Doesn't surprise me one bit that this comes from China. They have a culture of extreme self-interest with complete disregard of the implications against other people or even themselves long term.
While I haven't used Angular, I have watched a live demonstration of it and was not impressed. Yes it's very boilerplate heavy and reminds me of some of the clunkier Java frameworks.
I'll keep my suggestion short and simple. Look into ReactJs. If your coworkers are sharp they may be willing to look into it too. It's not just another crappy framework.
Bold, and beautiful!! Quick everyone, scrap all your existing frameworks and jump on the flavor of the week!
Seriously though, I think it's borderline negligent to contribute any kind of hype to new javascript frameworks considering they are spraying out into the ecosystem like a broken fire hydrant. New javascript frameworks should be met with extreme skepticism, if not indifference, if we want this industry to be anything more than a joke.
Isn't that progress though? How else would we figure out a better way to do things if not to see how others are doing it. Many times a framework is, 'Here is how we've been doing things on our team, check it out! It might be useful to you as well."
Then others pick up on those ideas and so on and so forth. They don't simply sit there and say.."oh well...we should make our own framework because we don't like the ones that exist and want to make this industry incredibly difficult." No, most frameworks that have been released, especially ones that have been worked on by many people, have a purpose...a way of doing things different, that those team members like. If you don't like the way they have come up with...you don't have to use it. That's the beauty of it. There are many ways to accomplish front end development. Even in my case, if I don't want to use it ever, it is still benificial to see how others are doing things because you can take bits and pieces of their ideas and use them. Id' like to see more well thought out frameworks.
This "we have too many frameworks" crowd always post the same comments every time a framework is announced. It's becoming tiring hearing from you guys. Nobody is forcing you to use a framework... It's literally the same as saying.."we like how we did things 5 years ago, and we never want to change."
Welcome to the wild, wild, west of web innovation. If you don't like constant change, this may not be for you.
Pro Tip: If you learn JavaScript first and not a framework, adopting new frameworks can be done very fast. I find most of the people who post and cry about there being a new framework are the ones who don't really know JavaScript.
It looks like this framework goes back ~3 years. So, why would you consider it the 'flavor of the week'? Because someone posted it to HN? That doesn't seem to be much of a threshold. Also, it looks like this framework could be of use in other languages aside from javascript.
It was started in 2011, and can be used to target any language. It was first used to generate C++ and JS code in Chrome in early 2012. It is a Framework written in JS, not specifically a JS Framework.
They forked. There has been talk of reconciliation but it seems to me that many of the iojs folks are not really on-board with the idea. As far as which to use, take it from some guy on the internet, I say use iojs.
Front-end development considered harmful. Every moron wants to defecate out the next best frontend framework it's a joke at this point. Front end developers have made a mockery of the industry.
I don't think you understand how badly 10gen overmarketed Mongo as something that it isn't. I personally believe the people at 10gen deserve legal repercussions (I expect we'll see this in the coming years), even incarceration for the pure lies they spouted that cost companies so much. MongoDB is a trojan horse, a trap, completely incapable of serving any real-world need. If someone thinks MongoDB is working from them, they just don't realize yet how it's subtly broken.
Sorry have you just woken up and missed the last 20 years ?
Almost every single IT company exaggerates claims, says their product is "the best" and "amazing" and suitable for every use case under the sun. Oracle did it. Microsoft did it. Mongo did it. And thousands of companies in the future will do it in the future. It's called Marketing.
And I think you should speak to all these customers (http://www.mongodb.com/who-uses-mongodb) and tell them they don't serve any real world need. I would imagine a few would ask the same question of you.
I think "ORGANIZATIONS CREATING APPLICATIONS NEVER BEFORE POSSIBLE" about sums it up on their "who uses" page... There's nothing in particular that mongo does better than it's competitors.
> …we eliminate so-called “structured programming” constructs like “for” and “if”. Only function calls, variables, and constants are allowed. The result is that we end up with something that looks a lot more like assembly code; but instead of “GOTO” statements, we use callbacks…
Oh god please no.
Building a nontrivial app in node is already a nightmare.
Well, what the author wants is called Haskell(or Scala to some extent) where the logic "is in the type itself", he doesn't know it yet or he wouldn't have written this article.
In Clojure I got almost to the point where I can write and reuse almost any layer of my application, I need to connect with Mongo, check, I need to authenticate an user, check, I need to connect with Postgresql, check...
In the next app, if I would need to connect again to mongo I will just need to import the relevant module...
But it didn't teach them to save a year's living expenses so they'd never get into this situation again? I wonder what is protecting them from becoming homeless if they fall on hard time again -- probably nothing. With that said, this was a really engrossing read and should reinforce the idea that responsible spending is absolutely key to a comfortable life for those of us who perhaps don't appreciate our nest egg of savings quite as much as we should.