jbhatab

While I understand where you are coming from, one remarkable breakthrough can change that. That does sound absurd, but we would also look like fools as a humanity for being aware of this potential problem and at least not looking into it.

Technology has been exploding at a remarkable rate, I'm fine with things slowing a little for the sake of the next 1000 years of humanity.

yup, also liking alt.

Pete hunt said it should be relatively easy to wire up a RESTful api to flux relay. And since mapping data to complex front ends is hard, but defining restful endpoints is easy, I'd rather design my database to be optimized for the complex front end scenarios. I imagine that you would be able to make a standard REST api from graphql.

You can make your ajax calls in actions or stores so if it makes sense to. Just make the query there to easily update the store.

Also check out https://github.com/goatslacker/alt.

It's similar to reflux but in es6.

I'm reading a lot of criticism about specific points he is making, but I think the bigger takeaway is to address the implications technology is going to have on society in the coming decades. I think it would be impossible for a single person to effectively take the last 1000 years of society and the current state of society and perfectly explain the problem/solution.

I commend him for addressing these issues in addition to other global issues, http://blog.samaltman.com/china, and I think we need to organize as a community to address these things. I almost view it is as similar to when the constitution was being written in the US. There were an immense amount of factors at play but they organized to pull together some sense of structure to guide society in a better direction. Now we are writing the constitution of technology in a sense.

The problem is that we still have a system that has the government and politics writing the major rules, while some of the biggest influencers on society's future will be technology. I think we need to own this fact as a community and start to work towards something to structure our growth and the impact it will have.

I'm going to be completely honest as a UI/UX developer. I already feel completely overwhelmed with viable and awesome options. If you aren't heavily using this, at least make sure it isn't interfering with your life. This has nothing to do with what you've done, just how I feel about more icon libraries in general.

I disagree. I think he is talking about the general 'anti-workaholic' attitude. I see it all the time and have personally been called out for wanting to work too much. I don't know enough about China's culture, but I know in America it is looked down upon to work non stop even if it is just for a few years of a person's life.

check out http://touchstonejs.io/

There is a huge difference between the skills necessary to safely hold your money and setting up HTTPS. I bet you that there are a lot of fraudulent banks that are very good with https, but aren't to be trusted.

100% agree. Tasteless. I want to believe that there will be some sort of traffic consequence from this but I'm not sure.

For instance, will Huffington Post have issues later for starting to not care about the quality of their posts? Maybe.

This website is unbearable even if you have a great computer. Get it together forbes. Big does and fullscreen does mean better.

This looks amazing. So will this be able to build native ios, android, and windows apps?

Great library, just made a video on it if anyone is interested in setting it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cY8-xCfU9E

I feel like these benchmarks always put rails in a tough spot. Let's choose bare bones frameworks and compare it to a fully loaded framework. Oh wow, the bare bones ones are faster?! I'd be concerned for them if they weren't.

Yeah the second he said that he was invested in Uber's biggest competitor, I couldn't take him seriously. Uber has gone over the line sometimes, but he's obviously going to make it sound worse than it is.

White males were the most encouraged demographic to go into tech when their age group was young. The fact that there are a lot more white males in that group just demonstrates what society was like in the past.

If I was throwing a convention, I would want the best and the brightest 30+ year olds for wisdom/experience reasons. And since everyone agrees that males dominated the space in the last 15 years, why would it even make sense for there to be a higher percentage of females presenting?

Should we punish these brilliant people (it's quite the collection of intelligence) because they were born in a certain era? I mean we could, but that would just bring us in another equally bad direction.

thank you!

Does anyone have any feedback from using this? Would be interested in hearing how it went.

The docs are sparse. Can you briefly explain why this is awesome?

I actually use backbone and react right now and love it. I also thought flux was too much, so I'm very interested in a framework like this.

Is it even reasonable to use a raspberry pi for production? Wouldn't you want to go custom with an electronics manufacturer at some point?

How so?

Thanks for the answers.

I will say that I do really like the syntax of coffeescript as is though,

  div className: 'container',
    span className: 'foo'
    CustomClass classname: 'bar'

It reminds me a lot of slim and reads nicely.

Thanks for the response.

Could you give me a quick example of calling a component with object literals instead of functions? I'm not understanding how that will play out in the final code.

Also, isn't it just adding React.createFactory, not replacing React.createClass?

Hey can you explain how they improved consistency because I just don't understand how the new changes help. I may just not understand what they did at a fundamental level.

As the others have stated, react requires me to add this line: var MyComponent = React.createFactory(require('MyComponent'));

It's not a huge deal, but I keep getting this sense that jsx is strongly tied to react and this reaffirms that they are going to keep it that way. I do trust the react team still, but it makes me weary of future releases.

I don't know if I'm reading the changes wrong, but I'm not liking how I have to do an extra step if I don't use jsx. I want to use coffescript and not have to do extra stuff.

I definitely feel this forced vibe around making everyone use jsx, but have yet to hear any compelling reasons why it's better.

I understand where you are coming from, but you should also acknowledge the other side of ego too. Ego can fuel people to become their vision of themselves and people with egos tend to have a hard working self image.

I'm not saying ego is good, because it can take you down if not managed. But to say that there are no positives is a little bit extreme.

I don't know if I'm alone on this one, but I thought his presentation was a bit scattered. Not taking away from him in any way, but his examples were not effectively backing up the points he was making.

You could even see him hesitating and questioning his own statements in his head a few times.

I taught myself to code up to a 65/hr job in 2 years and trained a friend to a 25/hr job in half a year.

Very glad to see others doing the same, I can't wait until online education mixed with mentorship proves to be a viable education option.