Why doesn't NPM work for you? If it's an user-permission thing (which is common if you installed node straight-up), consider installing nodejs using NVM (node version manager). This also has the advantage that you don't have to sudo npm.
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But all hype and optimism aside, why is there no medication for female sexual dysfunction? I'm trying to come up reason by looking at this from various perspectives, but nothing seems to make much sense. From a religious point of view, reproduction in a marriage is important, so it'd make sense if the female is sexually interested. From an economic point of view, developing a drug that solves a market need is worth tons of money (also no competition). From a feminist point of view, a woman's body, including her sex, should be her own and any dysfunctions she should be entitled to fix. From a misogynist's point of view, sex is one of the things a woman is good for, so it makes sense you can have it with her.
So why is there no drug for female sexual dysfunction? Is it really difficult technically or something?
And that's where Ruby, Python, Javascript, and to some extent Matlab come in. For whatever else people may say about them later (they don't scale, they're a roadblock, they're a mess, null is not a function, etc.), they were there for you when you were programmatically young and they introduced you gently into a world that's otherwise extremely complex.
After all, programming, like literally everything else, is 99% human and 1% logic, machines, data, "scaling", etc. Programs are written by people for people (incidentally they can also be read by a computer), so it's incredible important that the 99% of that equation (you the programmer) don't become discouraged at the onset by an extremely elegant, expressive, but rather rapey language before you're ready for it. In that sense, it's absolutely okay to be "seduced" by an easy scripting language in the beginning. Eventually, though, when you start lamenting about "undefined is not a function" and how that could be so easily avoided when proper type-checking, that's your body telling you that you're ready for Haskell now.
But why shouldn't vampires be more lauded than Victorians? Why should Jane Austen, with her painfully circumlocutions, be more academically welcome than that woman (forget her name) who wrote 50 shades of gay? In many ways, old "classical" works are telling the exact same stories as modern "trash novel" works, except the modern "trash novel" works are doing it in such a way that is clear, simple, relevant (to today's audience), and thus free of misunderstandings. From them, through clever literally mental contortions, one can still elucidate all the themes, lessons, and humanities like you could from confounding classics - just less obfuscated like "there is no place like home" instead of "lost is my homecoming", "...and then they had sex and fell in love..." instead of "... I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this...", etc.
And who says the arts are dying? The arts are vibrant and alive in today's web-comics, video games, movies, and tv-shows. The medium has changed from a completely closed system of ink and paint to a modular, copyable, and distributable one of .mdl files, computer images, and carrier streams. It's just intentionally confusing junk like cubism, poorly drawn junk like medieval art, and inhumane junk like pyramid building that's gone away.
The pressure to have to constantly monetize, I'll admit, is painful... but that primarily hurts the large institutions who have bottom lines that must be covered. And in my opinion as a flexible small business kind of guy, that's a good thing. Large institutions were necessary for centuries for individual survival at the cost of individual self-actualization, but in today's flexible scale era, it's entirely possible to just be good at something and survive without having to give up your soul to a large corporation. In that case, going small, lean, and individual is the way of the bright future.
Also, for those whose eyes hurt from the matrix color theme the site uses, you can change the colors by opening up console and running:
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].setAttribute("style", "color: #333; background-color: #ddd");
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some background pic
some call to action
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about section
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product section
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other people are saying section
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example usage section
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api docs section
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some social section
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footer
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And as you scroll down the page, various transitions and animations (powered by jquery) popped out telling you more about the product / asking you to make an account.
I personally have made a good handful of websites like this, but I never really enjoyed the scrolling down craze because I use Emberjs and dumping everything into one application.hbs really isn't what Ember is about. But what's the consensus out there? Do people enjoy layouts like this?
edit: formatting
That being said, yeah, a lot of Google's paid developer facing tools are actually quite terrible (like their Youtube api/v3 - not the iframe one, the supposed restful data one). Which is strange because their open source stuff tend to be pretty good. So it's like giving Google money actually makes things worse. Especially with using their APIs, it's often felt like I'm paying Google to punch me in the face rather than actually provide better service.
As in, if your goal in life is to maximize company and personal profit per time, then by all means, committing to an over kill culture will get you there. If you want to party hard (and I mean hard as in hookers and cocaine in a pent house, not a weekend camping trip to Yosemite or whatever), you will need to work hard. On the other hand, if your goal in life is to live long and healthy and or get really good at your craft, then it makes sense to limit your daily hours and be patient.
If you don't know what your life goals are (and I imagine a lot of young folks are in this category), then you'll readily buy into whatever life-goals are presented to you by whoever person has the most social influence. And the young guys who flaunt the tons of money they have made in a short amount of time through overworking really hard influence us a lot more than the old guys who intentionally don't mention the large sum of money they've made working slowly over time. So we model our lives after those fast burners, and try to replicate their success despite having a different set of physical resources to work with.
This (lack thereof) personal life strategy will work for a tiny population of the folks who adopt it, and having known only success, they will have some level of contempt for the large majority who couldn't do it. As for the large majority who fail, they'll either figure out how to be patient and lead a balanced life (like the writer of this blog), or wind up with some sort of kidney disease in their 30s. And that's really just life when you throw out all the frivolous junk of "optimized load times", "brand adherence", "platform agnosticism", "shipping deadlines", etc., it is about finding out what for yourself what you can and what you're going to optimize for in your short several decades on this relatively eternal planet.
You won't find a single Javascript engineer who hasn't been tortured by "Undefined is not a function" or worse on a daily basis, so something that promises to liberate us from this evil is always appreciated.
1. a user has many (or has one) channels 2. a channel has many playlists 3. a playlist has many videos
So naturally, you'd expect the following:
1. api/v3/channels/teamcoco -> gets you the channel with id "teamcoco" 2. api/v3/channels/teamcoco/playlists -> gets you all the playlists on teamcoco's channel. Say they have ids [coco-001, coco-002, coco-uploads, ...] 3. api/v3/playlists/coco-uploads -> should get you the playlist with id "coco-uploads" 4. api/v3/playlists/coco-uploads/videos -> should get you the videos belonging to playlist id "coco-uploads"
Of course, the real api/v3 has none of that. The full details you'll have to read at the developer console at google, but in rough summary, if you wanted the teamcoco channel, you'd do:
1. api/v3/channels?forUsername=teamcoco&parts=id,snippet,topicDetails,contentDetails&fields=([forgot-what-went-here])
And you'd get a json that looks like: { ... items: [...], ... }
and all 1 channel with id "teamcoco" will be in items, with playlist info strewn somewhere in topicDetails or contentDetails. Then, when you want playlist information, you have to look at either the /playlist?id=whatever or /playlistItem?forChannel=whatever, depending on whether you wanted playlist metadata or playlist video data.
In all, it's an extremely horrible user experience, and yes, I get it, Google has to split up the data model so youtube can scale. Sure, but then they go about and expose all the details of their implementation in their external developer facing API. And if you've ever worked with other such api that has their innards exposed for the outside world to see, you know to be antsy. Such trashy api is bound to be refactored as soon another "Rockstar" engineer gets hired, so say goodbye to whatever customized adapter/serializer you wind up writing for api/v3 4 months down the road.
As much as your average 20-something cynical know-it-all likes to bag on our education system and its spew of "you're special", "believe in your dreams", "don't be afraid to do something if you truly believe in it", etc., I should think it's that very sort of indoctrination starting at a young age that is ultimately responsible for so many Americans casting caution to the wind and pursuing their "American Dream", and for so many other Americans to sympathize with and be willing to support such folk on their trek.
But I will admit that the one government innovation that definitely helps entrepreneurship is the creation of the corporation. The fact that I can create this entity that's owned by me and the family, friends, and fools who believe in me, and that if things go South, the corporation can die without dragging me down with it, is extremely helpful in encouraging folks to venture. If I was a builder and the law was that if a house collapses and kills its residents, the builder will be found and killed in an eye-for-an-eye manor, I'd seriously think twice about building a house for anyone other than myself.
So what encourages entrepreneurship? Telling people since the founding of your nation that entrepreneurship is good and providing a means of separating the entrepreneur from his corporation.
1 + "2" = "12" but "1" - 1 = 0
0 == false ( "if window.scrollTop ..." will occasionally break on user scroll )
undefined == null ( why do we need 2 empty sets? )
undefined + "dog" != null + "dog" ( breaks transitive property )
undefined !== null ( but native operators like ? and if uses == and not === )
I'm really glad Javascript is taking over. Mostly because I am a small business / indie dev and using Javascript allows me to off-load a lot of work onto distributed client computers. Which, in turn, allows me to piggy back off of Google, Github, etc., for free hosting and be massively "scalable" to traffic spikes with no cost to me. Js has become massively portable so rapid prototyping and deliver is more possible now than ever.
But I'm neither a redhat user nor an OS dev, so I might completely wrong.
Or, more to the point, what is "awesome"? Well, something that fills one with awe. But what is "awe"? According to Dr. Dacher Keltner (Born to be Good), "awe" is a feeling of uplifting that one gets when he is looking on things from up high. It's a feeling we get when we suddenly see our world and ourselves in a much larger scope; when we come to some understanding of our place, our path, and our purpose in our universe. Since time immemorial, it's a feeling we've associated with divinity.
It's hard to say what fills others with awe, but to be awesome from your own perspective is to do something that would fill you with awe. To "be awesomer" then is to be do more of that thing which fills you with purpose and meaning and (since your time and resources are finite) to do it at the cost of all the other things that just grind away at your life yet you feel no purpose, meaning, or self-actualization from.
So, what does "be awesomer" mean when translated out of uncool-high-school-faggotnese (and, incidentally, into cult-of-TEDnish)? It means to take a risk, abandon the beaten and grinding path, and to live a life that feels meaningful to you. If you ask me, that's sound advice; possibly irresponsible if you're a parent with kids depending on you, but definitely solid otherwise.