And thankfully Microsoft is helping mitigate this issue.
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I don't understand this. You think Netflix and Facebook's Open source projects are lame?
How hard is that to understand?
> Force [verb]: make (someone) do something against their will.
I am from the adult industry. They are notorious for having that "welp, server harddrive failed, need to rebuild from scratch" mentality.
Yeah, and as someone who makes enough money to not worry about not being on the streets, but also not enough to be able to just do anything I want, my burden is light relative to people in 3rd world countries.
No matter what you say, someone's burden is light compared to another, and completely denying someone like Notch the right to be able to get their burden off their chest, just because their's is less than yours, is asinine.
That's shady business no matter what you think. I personally have zero empathy for Ashley Madison and for what's happening to them.
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Adult Friend Finder actually pays an absurdly higher payout for referrals whom happen to be women, because they don't get many women signing up.
No worries, keep asking all you want and I'll do my best to answer them.
> Can I ask why you feel that way?
Mostly because I was getting burnt out in PHP, the community was getting pretty hellacious, and because I wanted to do something new.
Regarding the Rails question, I actually when decided to leave PHP I was debating on learning Rails/Ruby or moving to NodeJS. But because I had been tinkering with NodeJS already (I wrote a pretty extensible IRC bot with a few friends to get the hang of things) and because I already have an understanding of JavaScript I would go NodeJS.
It helps that I'm not jumping between 4 languages in my stack, PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS to 3 languages.
Why I feel it was the best decision is mostly because it made me a overall better developer. I started learning a lot more stuff, and found out very verbose things in PHP are simplified in JavaScript.
I mean, look at popular PHP frameworks vs popular NodeJS frameworks... Laravel and Symfony are orders of magnitudes bigger than Express and Hapi/Sails.
PHP while getting better at it, has the NIH mindset whereas NodeJS is about building small packages that do one thing and one thing only and everyone uses them.
> What do you think about Rails vs Node/Express/etc when it comes to startups? Are more choosing Node lately, or is Rails still the startup gold standard?
I think NodeJS is a solid alternative. There's huge companies using NodeJS now, Walmart, Netflix, PayPal just to name a few. And with the fact that NodeJS and iojs team have come together and the Node Foundation exists is great. iojs has been expanding heavily and that's good. NodeJS v4.0.0 is due out in the coming weeks and I can't wait.
r/node was a big help. I also make sure to learn JavaScript, not NodeJS exclusively. A firm understanding of JavaScript is the best way in my opinion. So start using frontend JavaScript stuff. Angular, React, etc. Once you're very comfortable with that, start building your own stuff. Ignore the "but why would I build my own when so much better exists?" because it's not about building something someone else will use, but to help you understand the workings of what you're building more.
Once you are comfortable in the frontend, NodeJS is just as easy.. Learn the core modules, and ecosystem.
On the frontend you should already be using something like Browserify or Webpack, so you'll already be familiar with using CommonJS based requires.
What makes you believe that?
When I started at the startup I previously worked at, while we were working for pennies and not making money, it was "our company" because I had equity along with the founders. Once we started making money and could have reasonable salaries it went from "our company" to "my company".
Edit:// Also Digita Ocean $5 VPS is cheap to play with Node on, or even use a Vagrant machine.
"Why would I recreate this in NodeJS where nobody uses it, when I can just use WordPress?"
Hell there's a company in my area (sadly I worked there years ago) who literally manages 200+ local businesses sites and they're all powered by WordPress. I'd say 1 or 2 of them are actually blog having sites. The rest are just "I want to be able to edit this section of content myself" sites.
WordPress makes it insanely easy to build a site for a client or even anyone who's vaguely familiar with web development.
Go get a cheap shared hosting account, click that 1 click WP install button, login to your new site, search for a theme you like, install it in a click, make a few minor tweaks, find some plugins that do stuff you like, install them in a click. Done.
Until people realize this, there's no "taking on WordPress".
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