jcrotor

Not sure what you mean by that. Is there some industry standard around the term "Artificial Intelligence"? I agree that its become a bit of a buzzword, but I'm not sure that its being misused.

Which is a big problem IMO. Many employers are willing to lean on open source tech to reduce cost. Much, much fewer are willing to let employees spend time contributing to open source as a way of paying back the open source community. Thats incredibly short sighted, as it reduces the resources contributing to the technology the company now relies on.

Yes, however you could just have a long haired elephant quite easily. It is conceivable that you might end up with a slightly genetically modified elephant that fills the same ecological niche without genetically being a mammoth. Its easy to see why the author and even the geneticist might choose the term over "genetically engineered elephant" when explaining the concept to the average person.

There are various tiers of customer information, specified by law that have different requirements legally to obtain. In many cases a broad search warrant doesn't justify the release of what would be considered sensitive data. The more sensitive the data is, the more difficult it is to obtain legally. I highly doubt Amazon is "refusing". They have a legal team and are simply enforcing the protections specified by law. If the Police can build a compelling case as to why they need the information and jump through the appropriate hoops, Amazon will turn it over. In many cases the Police just want the company to cooperate because there are many investigations, and only so many man hours to put towards each case. Amazon is doing the right thing here, and even if the suspect is guilty, I highly doubt his Amazon Echo recordings are going to be useful in the investigation. It is a no stone left unturned kind of thing though.

What about when it becomes mildly popular and you have to rewrite it again because it isn't cost effective to scale at all? It isn't time saved, it is time wasted.

People that don't or haven't tried to understand node.js or express like meteor. Picking up meteor is easier, but its not all that useful at the moment. There are other frameworks that are better than meteor and allow you to achieve the same end (realtime).

Don't get me wrong, it is neat, and I am glad they are exploring a new area of development, but promoting it as anything other than a pet project is misleading.

I think the portfolio site itself should show off your skills. As a front-end dev, it isn't enough to just have clean, semantic HTML and clean css and js. You are getting ready to build a site where you can and should experiment with various technologies that you have interest in, but haven't had the opportunity to use them in a project yet.

Have a section dedicated to "current front-end experiments" where you just build cool stuff and show it off. Take things you are particularly proud of, try to abstract them to their core idea, and throw it on github.

I am going to agree with another user that you need to show proficiency with a front end framework, either Angular, Backbone, or Ember.

Also, a blog attached to your site where you discuss working on your experiments is nice too.

What do you currently send prospective employers when you apply for jobs as far as code? Throw that up there too.

I've been applying for jobs recently and don't have a portfolio site. I've been getting interviews just from my resume,one project that I built start to finish that I still manage, and a few small angular apps that are super simple. So if you would rather build a functional purpose built site, that is OK too.

I am not saying that devs shouldn't have portfolios, but I feel that they are more necessary for a designer, because that is one of the only ways they CAN show their work.

That depends. How many forms and how many fields do you need to validate? jQuery is pretty much standard on most websites, so I don't count that against the author. The total minified dependency file is 123 kb. I will agree that is pretty large if all you are using it for is a single field, but again, a large portion of that is jquery. Also compared to just core angular, which is 104 kb, I would say this is a viable alternative depending of course on your specific use cases.

That being said, could an implementation be done without jQuery? Probably. I'm sure the author is open to pull requests if you want to give it a go.

But writing your own algorithms is so last week bro!

I have to agree. I can imagine the exact type of person to make use of such a service, and can see a considerable hype following becoming the market. The creators no doubt had the best of intentions in mind, but I think it does prey on the uniformed, even if unintentionally.

I think the main challenge here is getting people to play it repeatedly. The leaderboards is the only aspect that really keeps you motivated. I think having the ability to challenge another player to a "Grid Off" would be a good feature. Pick someone from the leaderboards, go head to head for the highest score.

I also think you should consider the time to solve in the score. That would motivate people to not only try to solve the pattern better, but to be able to do it faster.

Overall decent job. The execution of the idea is done pretty well, I just don't know that the concept is super strong. Adding a few things could make it better, but I understand keeping the scope simple and trying to get it out there quickly.