dotborg

author didn't mention users at all.. maybe because they won't see any difference?

maybe except css filters, but we are yet to see webgl being used in production environment where mass audience is the target

those things are really cool from coder POV, but as an user.. sounds like increased CPU usage and nothing else.

There are always millions of people, who are going to die from cancer anyway. I bet some of them are in good shape and would be interested.

Modern front-end developer is more like racing car driver, he is just driving the car aka using tools he is given by developers working on them.

WebGL is not supported in IE because of some important reasons, it's just not secure enough.. yet.

Most succesful games are not using it anyways.

you should start from giving some numbers i.e. you want it to work for 10mil documents, how ofter they will be updated etc.

if it's less than 1mil and they are not updated frequently, you should go for postgres and have some fun with SQL,

more data and increased concurrency means problems also in postgres, a lot of optimizing, materializing views and other fun problems to solve.

still there is "our backend", nevertheless it sounds very cool:)

University graduate might have much higher potential to learn(and get teached), while solo coder hero may not be able to learn anything other than he wants to. Graduates are used to being teached and that's what many employers expect from them, they want you to absorb some not so cool knowledge and get used to it without any questions.

Your idea is great, but you will end up with average Joe using it for other cases thus MongoDB will be nontransactional database engine with SQL interface and sharding feature, which will be much slower and will have less features than any other RDBMS with proper replication funcionality.

"pure javascript" ?

Don't waste your childhood on programming. Get some other knowledge outside of computer science.

the idea of universe size increasing speed now comes to my mind,

if the speed is greater or equal to speed of light, how we can be sure that we won't see ourselves in telescope?

I mean, even if the radius is infinite, because speed is increasing, we should see sun light returning to us over universe surface at some point

  *A few billion years after that, you'll be standing on a hill looking up on a clear night, and the sky will be close to pitch black*

not that long ago we didn't know that we live on a sphere

what if universe is a 4 dimensional sphere?

FYI: UE does not end on UK, Germany or France

API is cool and dandy, but I think project should go in other direction. Lucene focus should be REAL support for languages, lack of proper dictionaries, lame stemmers makes it hard to use.

For me Lucene was always an NoSQL database and the rest of real search stuff I had to implement myself. (not to mention Solr mess).

It's fun and cool to work on some Java code architecture, but the real need lies somewhere else.

Ideas like crowdsourced distributed hosting now come to my mind :)

there are few more levels of knowledge and experience to achieve in order to improve overall quality of your work and that's the point of this article,

you can ALWAYS achieve your target in a better way

Reminds me about Turbo Pascal, I love it!

Just like DDG this one didn't mention the real challenge of making a search engine: reaching other languages than english and other countries than america.

Google is amazing about that.

Prostitues usually can choose and refuse, who they will have sex with. Maybe you were one of those, who do not have such choice?

like AdSense bans are anything new, yet another news about it on HN, coincidence or..?

Laptop - is it considered as a mobile device?

You can become a web developer without pretty much any knowledge(how computer is built, how it all works etc.), so it's not a big suprise here that there are many badly designed and/or coded websites.

Flash websites or one page JavaScript clusterf*#ks come from developers, who want to achieve cheap cool looking effect in order to cover the lack of real value in their product. They also want to have limited amount of technologies in their stack: Backend -> Server app -> JSON -> Web app, because it gives them false feeling of coding their projects faster.

Web development is like playing football or any other sport for the masses, everyone can do that, but only few can achieve good results.

This makes the article sound like a bullshit linkbait from Captain Obvious.

Current DirectX/OpenGL API and I would try to build a renderer in C++.

Spreading your personal data across many vendors is bad idea and average user is aware of this problem. How hard it is to remove data from centralized facebook? It will be a nightmare in case of decentralised networks.

aside of the "math", after reading this article I came to conclusion that there is some swindle going on about "global carbon dioxide budget", a global swindle.

It just works

.. and thats WRONG!

Perhaps Wikipedia should work like GitHub, pull requests?

layout should be responsive also to amount of content, especialy on websites focused on user generated content

title is very misleading, on purpose I guess

there is no client side code or am I missing something?

how do I decode my data from animated gif in javascript?