calebgilbert

Just wanted to put myself on record as thinking what happened to Brendan Eich as being something that is totally shameful. Nerd/geek/tech culture totally intolerant of anyone outside of exactly a certain mold.

People should be able to donate to what they want to, and one 'misdeed' (which is arguable) should not undo every good deed. Amazing someone doesn't 'deserve to keep their job' for donating to just about anything, let alone for a prop that actually passed in a popular vote!

So guess the lesson is that according to 'gay rights' over half the voting population in CA shouldn't have a job. Right on.

Thanks for the feedback and the push, guys - I'm going to go for it! (and have already started taking the next steps to do so)

Thanks for your comments. That's along the lines of what I'm thinking of, but want a few objective opinions as a sanity check.

Think question #1 was answered well in other comments/replies.

What I really like is that hr.js isn't built on Backbone, it rather is highly-inspired by it. That's a BIG advantage over things like Marionette/Chaplin/etc, because Backbone has certain holes/assumptions (see my comment elsewhere) which cannot be completely negated in an elegant/simple way, or even at all. Overriding the heck out of everything, or adding a gazillion new classes/sub-classes, or tossing the original component is not simple and elegant when done on a grand scale, imho.

This is to say that hr.js seems to be offering more out-of-the-box solutions and flexibility than Marionette/Chaplin/etc, while being a lot cleaner and more straightforward as well. Good on you hr.js :)

This looks really awesome - like a fully grown up Backbone.js! The nested/complex modeling, thoughtful subview handling, and ability to use backends other than rails/rest pretty much solves some of the biggest complaints against Backbone, while keeping the good parts. (Not to mention the other considerable niceties hr.js lists)

I may actually give this a shot for a project of mine.

Members of my immediate family have had, and still have, anti-depressants as part of what is making them worse than what was ailing them in the first place. By far.

Everyone is entitle to their own opinions and has their own experiences, and that's mine. So to me, the quacks are many of the ones prescribing the meds.

"angular or backbone: what are startups using" (blog post and poll)

https://blog.backlift.com/entry/front-end-frameworks

As someone actively rolling their own JavaScript framework (more as a learning exercise than for anything else), I second the opinion that AngularJS is uniquely hard/blackboxed compared to other JavaScript frameworks (which I frequently refer to in order to guide my own efforts).

For instance Backbone is pretty much what would happen (give or take) if all the JavaScript books on how to program OOP and MV* got together and build a JS framework. It's not fancy, it's not "magic", but it is very approachable in terms of advanced standard/best/popular JavaScript programming practices.

AngularJS left all that stuff behind and built their own little world. It might even be a great world, but on the surface or to the implementation-level developer has little to do with "regular" advanced JavaScript programming techniques/patterns.

To me it's a bit like the JavaScript version of Drupal, which gives you a ton out of the box, but is just it's own whole world of conventions etc, that has little do with anything seen outside of itself.

looks for a tl;dr version...

One can't delete their account on Hacker News either. Just sayin'. :p

I believe the spirit the article was written in has value. Obviously one should use common sense and still apply the best practices that they know of at the time.

Same school of thought: 'Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program' - http://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html

Sensationalist headlines aside, I received my degree online from the University of Phoenix in 2004 and I had to worked freakin' hard for it. Way harder than I had to work when I attended a 4 year California State University brick-and-mortar college.

So I can't help how others feel about my online degree, but I'm proud of it.

One of the graves missing in this article is for the Google Finance API which was deprecated last year. (much to the chagrin of many people, including myself)

Hm. Now that I just signed up in Firefox, it's not working there either.

Just figured something out - works in firefox, does not work in chrome or safari (e.g., webkit browsers)

I get the same thing when I go to BromBone.com - an error message...

I really agree with commenters who mention ergonomics as a reason NOT to spend a lot of hours in a coffee shop over a long period of time (months/years). I spent almost every work day in cafes for a couple years and feel like it was part of the root cause behind the significant neck/shoulder issues I have now.

and the Titanic was unsinkable...

"Absolutely no content, sources, or anything new whatsoever. Not news."

Normally you'd be right, but the WSJ regularly gets the pass from people on the need for actual sources due to their reputation. This is news.

Doh! Now where did that cure for cancer I had lying around here go...

Google fan boys can try and rationalize this decision all they want, but a few things are known.

1. Most people saw this announcement as 'business' decision by Google

2. This was not a decision driven by what is best for the average computer/online user

3. Yay, Flash video! :(

Google as a business is well within it's rights to do whatever it wants to further it's business interests, and/or tick off it's competition. Let's just not keep saying it's all for the user.

The writer of the article was indeed very funny, but honestly anyone can be made to look like a buffoon if their words are taken out of context, and the results aren't examined.

Personally, I'd recommend to anyone interested in health and fitness at all to grab the 4 Hour Body - there's some stuff worth reading.

I've gotta say that I'm mostly sitting this one out as far my personal time and/or emotional investment, but gotta r-e-s-p-e-c-t for any group that can get it together enough to ddos visa, mc, and paypal in one day. :)

I do actually live by that myself, but there's also people who just can't give anyone a break ever and want others to defer, defer, defer to their whining and complaining. I allow myself to draw a line too. For every time there is a season. :)

You hurt me with you whining comment. See how being hurt can be subjective?

Yes, actually - we all, at some point, get to be the final arbiters of deciding whether what what we said was offensive or not. (which I suppose also means that everyone else gets to decided to the final arbiter of whether they're offended or not - a right some have proven time again that they're not giving up)

So again - I guess my bottom line is, if I didn't mean to offend a person, and they want to get offended and make a big damn deal out of it - they can go right ahead. I'm not changing what I do just to keep up with the most offended person in the room. :-)

It's about any women (lesbians and non-lesbians alike) not actually being harassed, but rather just running around trying to enforce their own agenda on the world. My bottom line is this - if I say something to someone and did not mean any offense/harassment, did not consider it to be offensive/harassing - and someone else still wants to cry about it, then f-*ck them.

I guess in the particular case of the particular lesbians I mentioned above - they seem to be looking/seeking to find something, anything, that they can hold up as harassment and persecute the shit out of someone. That's bullying in my book plain and simple.

UPDATE: Maybe I'm ascribing too many personal motivations for their behavior - all I can say that many/most of loudest voices in the Drupal community regarding all things 'harassement' are lesbians. At the very least they have a hair trigger response and get set-off by comments that their straight counterparts do not.