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Doesn't google do around 3 billion searches/day? I was under the impression DuckDuckGo was a bigger player.

1 million doesn't seem that big a number on the internet?

If you like jQuery and DOM use Backbone. AngularJS does a lot more than Backbone and Angular forces you to do things its way, meaning to avoid doing DOM manipulation outside of the framework, which isn't necessarily bad but requires more of a commitment and learning.

AngularJS is great for simple apps but once I got beyond that I ended up fighting how to makes things work with the ng-* attributes often having to resort to $apply. Things that are simple with underscore templates and jQuery (the Backbone way) can become very frustrating in AngularJS.

AngularJS reminds me of ASP.NET controls with repeaters and coding through attributes. That works for a lot of people but I'm more comfortable with templates and jQuery.

Are these as good as the Apple Cinema Display? Still haven't found anything with text as crisp my ACD (waiting for ACD retina). I've seen better for graphics but not text. Dell Ultrasharps for example are awesome for graphics and yes better than ACD but for programming the anti-glare on Dells is annoying like looking at a vampire from Twilight in the sunlight.

I'm surprised Python doesn't get more in return. Google, Pinterest, Disqus, ... all these guys have buku funding and use Python heavily. Why not show Python some love? Make the VM up to par with V8.

Used to be silverlight, moonlight? Didn't catch on.

Would like a vote on how many ran the command: `sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping`

Within my circle, it was the first thing we googled for. I like Ubuntu. Canonical's best best is to go the way of Wikipedia and plead for pledges or seek out crowdfunding. They also have an opportunity to take some share of the desktop market away from Windows 8 but adding in features like this hurts them more than it helps.

I don't get it. Look at Jade, Stylus ... pythonesque isn't it. The same arguments that are made against CoffeeScript certainly can be argued for those sugar syntax alternatives of HTML and CSS respectively. Some will argue ad nauseum for not using semicolons and then hate on CoffeeScript.

I've had no problems debugging or understanding CoffeeScript and while I'm not at the level of a Jon Resig, I can more than hold my own with Javascript. CoffeeScript is just syntax and generally safer than plain Javascript. It will declare vars for you if your forget. It will use an optimized for loop. It will put a wrapper around code to minimize leaks ...

Just read Twitter's Scala guide. Best resource for learning Scala on the web.

Visicalc ... Lotus 1-2-3 ... Borland Quattro ... Microsoft Excel ... Google Spreadsheets

100% agree. As much as I love CoffeeScript, the intellisense and type hinting is an invaluable aid to our team. TypeScript is the answer to team collaboration on large projects. There's no more guessing what the arguments are, whether an argument is an object or string. Source maps is icing on the cake.

I find it really hard to believe average crashes is 7.1/month on Windows 7. I run Windows 24/7. It's never crashed. I have an overclocked 4.5Ghz i5 and have many VMware sessions running. Maybe it's because I have quality hardware? Same experience with OS X. Both are rock solid.

I'm going to have to try AngularJS. One of the things that put me off is how much it looks like ASP or JSP with the angular tags. Obviously it must be good as many people rave about it.

We're using Backbone for a large project and yes we have to track and dispose of everything manually but it's so small that we can make it do what we want. I will say this, Backbone has made our team better JavaScript developers because it didn't throw the kitchen sink at us. I just hope AngularJS is not Struts on the client side.

One thing to keep in mind, this is not the Lua most people are familiar with. Yes the language is the same, but the module system is completely different to be more like Node's. I was disappointed when I first tried it but I understand the reasons.

MS had to do this. As many point out there already are alternatives and it's clear mobile devices are the future. MS made the tough choice. Will it hurt them in the near term? YUP. It's an unpopular, bold move but I think the correct one. Kudos to Balmer for having the gonads to push the company in this direction. We're looking at maybe 2 years before Win8 takes hold.

For what it's worth, I think Win 8 acceptance will be molasses slow. Win 8 will affect Android's share not Apple's. I have a newer ICS tablet and I still prefer my IPad Gen 1. ICS feels slow despite having a much faster processor.

Another one!? How hard is it to write a few lines of Sinatra, Express, Flask ... code, then deploy with Heroku? This is getting ridicilous. Are programmers becoming so dumb they can't create an API on their own?

"no purpose or value to it", really?

For those who want to get a site up with good defaults, typography, and widgets, Bootstrap is a huge timesaver. If you have a better framework for those of us who "can't design" then point us in the right direction.

Fabric + Cuisine is happy joy.

Man, I wouldn't do well in these interviews except for the tinyurl.com question. Who thinks at the level of binary tree implementations? I know what they are and how to use them and I had to could remember and implement one, but I don't remember having ever needed to implement one from scratch.

The interview questions I ask are more around problem solving and thinking out of the box but I deal at the web application level not building compilers, databases, etc.

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Agree with you. Didn't we learn from C++ that multiple inheritance is good in theory but in practice a horrible idea? Ruby already lets you be 'magical' in too many ways.

Wow, Windows 1.0 desktop is a tiling window manager! I use i3 on Lubuntu and previously awesome. Would be nice if MS compromised and had tiling for apps in Windows 8 desktop mode.

I didn't grok Javascript until I started using node.js. I soon realized jQuery is not Javascript, which is what many people think Javascript is just like many think Rails is Ruby.

Just do it! Google things as you learn. Try writing a RESTful todo app with Backbone on the client and node on the backend. You'll soon learn async patterns, closures, constructor functions and most importantly understand how `this` works. Those along with `apply` I think are the essentials to being an effective Javascript programmer.

It is true Vim requires commitment but once you get it, the motions and key combination are logical.

As others have mentioned for fuzzy finding, use CtrlP. I also use FuzzyFinder for quickly switching between many open files (buffers).

One of things us Linux heads liked the Ubuntu of old was how customizable it was. Ubuntu Tweak allows you to tweak the OS without having a PhD in Ubuntu or the command line.

The real meaning is lost in translation.

It's one of three things for me.

1) The author feels Ubuntu is becoming the Microsoft of Linux and he will not continue to support it based on ethical reasons.

2) The cost of supporting and maintaining quality free software takes considerable effort and time. You have to be altruistic in every sense of the word to be an open source developer. People expect and sometimes demand you keep pace with every release of Ubuntu and be technical support/troubleshooter for them. All of that for free.

3) He hates Unity and is moving on (like I did). Just kidding, Ubuntu, err I mean Lubuntu is great.