I started web development by learning Angular 1, maybe I'm the minority, but I actually liked it in the beginning, and only grow to dislike after dived deep into it.

I was a web newbie but experienced developer in other field. The attraction of a framework like angular is it lets you write relatively large chunk of 'flat' code without having to worry about the structure of your code. So for a newbie it's easy to get started, of course you'll eventually face the dark side. But then you have to make a choice to either abandon angular and go for something else, or keep on going and make yourself good at angular.

Another thing is, there are plenty of good resources for learning frameworks like angular and react. Can anyone point to me some good up to date resources of building a functioning website from scratch by using purely jQuery?

I'm trying to do the same. But after spending the last few months building my own product, I feel like I'm not ready yet. The mistake I made in my career so far was not knowing enough about one industry, it's very difficult to think of a profitable idea if there isn't an industry you know inside out. So I'm considering going back to full time employment, pick an area that I'm really interested and learn that market well.

I'm going through the stand ford cs224D videos, only done 3 videos and they are very theory focused, lots of math equations. Any one know other good materials on NLP using neural networks?

I'm surprised how many chinese support Trump, when I ask them why, one of the main reasons is that Trump will withdraw military support to Asia, Japan especially.

Your prediction is very true, especially in the Finance/Auto/Embedded industry, while oftenly the work horse C++ code were written 10 years ago using old C++, you write modern C++ code around them.

ok, so the main usage of emscripten is to compile C++ to javascript and then call them from the "normal" frontend javascript code? ie. most UI related frontend job will still be coded in javascript?

As to the question why, C++ is not only about runtime performance, it's a more mature language than javascript/typescript and there are powerful data structure/design patterns/algorithms that are missing from javascript. Of course I see it this way because I'm way more competent in C++ than javascript.

I definitely appreciate that being a C and C++ developer, but you're sorely misled if you think that runtime carries over. Emscripten just translates the language to something usable through asm.js with a similar execution flow, but you end up running JavaScript. That's what it compiles to. Even WebAssembly is designed to run something that is consumed by the very same JavaScript runtime.

Are you sure about WebAssembly? I thought it's a new byte code standard and a completely new runtime on its own.

Yeah, it's designed to pass through the same mechanisms that handle JavaScript. It's a new byte code standard afaik, too, but one that's used in those systems.

No doubt Joel Spolsky is a great software engineer. But sometimes when reading articles like the 'great developers', I feel like he's standing on the high ground and look down on us mere mortals.

Sure it's near impossible to find 'great' developers, but most companies don't need great developers, they need good competent developers and there are plenty of them on the markets at any time. I would say the positions that require a 'great' developer to work on are as rare as great developers themselves.

I don't know why it's so important to see a junior developer's work before college. A junior is supposed to have near 0 experience, it's more important that they can demonstrate problem solving skills and willingness to learn.

Eh? I don't think it's important to see a junior dev's work before college. But if someone has been coding from a young age, if they've been self-taught, it's a very promising sign - they're self-motivated and are likely to stay up to date on tech - and a bonus is you're effectively getting a more experienced dev for the price of a junior dev (though in reality people should recognize this and bid their price up).

I disagree, whether a young developer have projects to show before college is near irrelevant to if they'll become a better developer as a professional. It doesn't automatically translate to self motivated, the only thing it shows is the candidate has early exposure to some technology. To my experience most people start programming from a young age are because they have family members in this profession and were asked to learn programming from a young age. I'm not saying there aren't any really due to interest and motivation, I just haven't met any yet.

To me whether you start programming before college is like graduate from Stanford, you may or may not be good, it will make me more likely to interview you, but not more likely to give you the job.

I've met several self-taught programmers with very bad habits that had to be unlearned and missing fundamentals (writing O(N-squared) algorithm and not understanding why not to). Not all self-taught programmers are this way but it's not an unambiguous green flag.

I agree for dynamic typed language like python and javascript 10-20k is a good limit. With a static typed language like C++, if the abstraction is well designed people should be able to handle more.

There will be a lot less mental overhead in statically typed languages, thanks to sane / functional autocompletion and a lot of information being abstracted away into types, so on that I agree. The other part may be that more loosely typed languages have a tendency to be less strictly structured, but that depends on the project.

The project I'm working in atm is neatly structured and at ±60K, but you definitely see certain team members knowing more about one part than the other. We've also started a POC to start moving to Typescript for the more critical areas of the application (services, data models).

interesting method, but do you stop after the two hours 'earn' timer?