jbhatab

There are geothermal plants but from what I remember they aren't that amazing.

This is fantastic. This removes efforts to maintain a random front end view layer while legitimizing the numerous react integration attempts. This will save a lot of time moving forward to phase out blaze.

New Hampshire is TREMENDOUSLY bad with heroin. I've seen it first hand and it is out of control. When I return, I always get a new list of dead people.

There are a lot of factors on this one, but at this point it's mostly a cyclical cultural problem.

Where did you find the major contracts? Networking? Friends? A website? referrals?

I agree with this completely and I think a simple board or coalition of companies and governments will be the answer. Regulation, policies, and awareness are the solutions to this problem, but thinking because it isn't a problem now that it won't be a potential problem at all is a scary thought.

Maybe, but I'm already afraid of dumb and dangerous tools. Nuclear weapons. Maybe we get stronger dumb and dangerous tools, but what scares me much more is a smart drone that has AI and the ability to learn things about me at a rate I can't comprehend.

I don't think they are afraid of current technology and neither am I. However, I am afraid of a breakthrough or new model of AI that does approach human intelligence. I don't know how, when, or why but I think it's reasonable in the next 400 years that we approach something like that. 400 years is not very long in terms of humanity but this technology could do things to humanity that we can't grasp right now.

Once again thank you and I'm still impressed by what you are putting out, but that still isn't quite what they click with.

To be honest a lot of the tech startup people I interact with have tremendous egos and they need to know the end of the tunnel fulfills that ego, so big money startups is what resonates with them. I'm looking for the marriage of startups and government basically.

I'm just being hyper critical, but I figured raw feedback would help

That's awesome, but it's not quite what I'm looking for. This is great for a person who knows what they want to do or is already a developer, but I have more entrepreneurial minded people that I feel wouldn't know what to do if I sent them this link. I may be wrong, but I think something more in the vein of an 'current government problems' page or a way to submit your ideas would be interesting. Maybe a network where people can find cofounders and ideate with like minded individuals. I want them to feel like making an idea happen in the government is just as awesome and scalable as a 'standard' startup idea.

I love what you guys are doing. I have a group of young and foreign developers, and I seriously want to get them involved with things like this more. There is so many good ideas that could help the government.

How can I leverage these young minds to get excited?

Do you have hackathons?

Do you have an incubator?

Do you have an open list of problems with grants?

These are the type of things that I think would help. Feel free to email me at jbhatab@gmail.com if you wanna chat more :D.

What do you like most now then?

If you're comparing flux + react + router to angular, then I feel like your missing huge aspects of what makes react valuable. I feel like when people talk about the awesomeness of react, they talk about the ecosystem around it.

It's the fact that Facebook has broken up react and all the surrounding architecture in a new way that is modular and logical for sharing code efficiently across various elements of a project or across projects. When I get excited about react, its because of things like Graphql coming out which is an entirely new way of interacting with your server that makes client side development significantly better.

They are creating entirely new ways of how you interact with the server side from the client side. This is why I love react and everything surrounding it. Not because it compares well to some random JS MVC that is completely tied to the DOM like angular, ember, or polymer.

I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but you haven't made over 40k between both you and your wifes income? That seems extremely unlikely with any coding skills. I don't know any juniors that are making less than 50k from php to javascript.

It's called politically incorrect on 4chan?!?! What did you expect?

Yeah I have no clue what that is.

Finding and staying connected with old friends easily. That is a big one.

I don't want to start a rails vs Django conversation, but why do you prefer Django over rails? I'm a rails dev and am just curious where Django is at with things.

I just think AI will be the first front people will use due to time and cost efficiency. If it doesn't seem that will work, then I'm sure the person would go to real lawyers after. That initial AI would change the legal game for many law suits though.

* Gets sued for bad product * AI finds 10 law suits in this persons past of the same nature that got nullified.

This would be fairly simple for the AI but would save a lot of time and money.

Why isn't what you described possible with AI?

What do you mean by revolutionizing computing? I assume you mean the way we interact with computers, not something like computer processing speed.

I definitely agree that AR has huge potential in changing how we interact with the world. Although I'm much more interested in technology that leverages things like projects to augment my reality without having to wear a headset. Very related things though.

How do you feel about headset vs no headset AR?

I couldn't disagree more. I didn't know code at all and learned over 50% of what I know about code today high. Thousands of hours of high coding. I am now a full stack developer. I was actually the most productive of my entire life when I would wake up and smoke at 8AM every day and continue smoking throughout the entire day.

I would also regularly go into class high and have riveting conversations with my professors. I remember I went into Calculus and Chemistry in senior year of high school high every single day and I always asked the most questions in class every time.

I'm not saying that smoking weed is good or bad, but to say it is strictly bad for learning is false.

I will say from my experiences that it bothers me deeply that we don't unbiasedly look into this more. I wish we could study these things since we already have millions of people doing active experiments worthy of scientific study. And for some reason we are wildly comfortable giving our kids adderall to do homework, which basically is saying every time you have to critically think you will use this as a crutch. That is good, but weed is bad? That seems absurd to me and I would say the long term impact adderrall has on a persons ability to learn is potentially worse than marijuana. I'd also argue that the social stigma of asking questions has more impact on a persons ability to learn than any drug. People are so afraid to ask questions.

That math degree is incredibly important in terms of his actual knowledge and perceived value.

Here's a random template I made with react in middleman that uses coffeescript with no jsx if anyones curious, https://github.com/jbhatab/middleman-backbone-react-template. I love the syntax and think it's really clean. The view code reminds me of slime.

Show me a tool out there that already does this in react. Besides relay, which isn't released, I don't know of one. Defining data in your component is a new concept to the entire javascript and web development world. I view this more as innovative than jumping on a bandwagon.

I would love to see this. I really love flux and want to get flux into it, not just react. If it's open source, I'd really appreciate a github link :D.

As a fairly new person to the tech industry, I have to say that the average tech job from a dev perspective has a very laid back feeling and usually they try to cater to my happiness. Maybe this is because of who I'm applying to though.

No question, yes. I use quite a rich front end frameworks, but rails still shines for lots of use cases.

I am a more front end heavy web developer. I know my way around apis and what not, but what you are describing sounds like backend bliss. I don't even know where to start but is there someway you can share more about the magic of your process? Like an example of a github repo of search and how you plug that into an app?

Either way, thanks.

It has been amazing for me. The one directional data flow of react and flux has made component design so simple. The modular design of flux and react makes it versatile for various projects too.

Irrelevant. We're talking about what he is doing while on top. There are more than enough examples of people on top that are doing nearly nothing to better the world.