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You "can't" use education licenses for professional work anyway.

Rapportive works great for me, it is an awesome tool.

Checklists are OK, but beware the checklist. They tend to cause complacency. "It wasn't in the checklist!"

at first I was a little pissed about your comments, but on reflection appreciate your "tough love" approach. ;)

My hope is that I can continue to write my thoughts and this plugins list will get smaller. I'd love to advance and share that experience. Out of this list, NERDTree will probably be the first to drop off, but it is very handy for lost noobs.

I went ahead and noted your issues in the article. I agree with your premise.

I don't know if perhaps experienced VIM users forget what it is like to start "from scratch" with the editor, but it is a lot. When I write this stuff, I am most certainly ignorant. It would be very interesting to me to see more information about why these plugins might not be needed, but I've done a lot of reading, and this is _the first time_ I've ever seen `netrw`.

I couldn't agree more, and I probably should have linked this previous thing[1] I wrote. One of the biggest barriers I had to actually using VIM was going nuts with the plugins.

[1] http://joelhooks.com/blog/2013/04/09/getting-to-know-vim/

Vundle makes me for productive because I use my .vimrc across several machines. I also had some weird issue that went away with a :BundleUpdate. It is essential simply for the fact that it tees up easy plugin management and is a pre-requisite for the rest.

All of these plugins were installed to solve specific problem I have with Vim.

As a very new Vim user, it is comforting to know that some of the more irritating aspects that are difficult to understand out of the box can be removed. Thanks for the tip about `netrw`.

The Model files are storing state, essentially. In this case they are following a pattern from Robotlegs (as3). I wrote it up here http://joelhooks.com/2011/03/12/an-introduction-to-robotlegs...

These are then injected as "services" in your controllers.

* http://sachagreif.com/google-webfonts-that-dont-suck/

This is a good survey of some of the beauties hidden in Google webfonts

It is "proper" open source with many enthusiastic non-google contributors.

Google staffs the project with several talented engineers. Misko Hevery is an amazing benevolent dictator. He earns my trust and respect. A confluence of genius and pragmatism.

It shares a lot of principles with Apache Flex. It's seen huge uptake by expat Flash platform devs.

After a year on a large project using Angular, I'm loving it more every day.

rad, learned a new trick. thanks!

DrRacket is an IDE for the Racket language. I never really understood why it stopped being DrScheme, or why Racket looks a LOT like Scheme. Then I read this http://racket-lang.org/new-name.html

it is lightweight, contained, and excellent if you have a "unix-like" workflow. Typically I'll have a watch script, server, and vim in a given window, and it is super compact. Some cons are probably the learning curve required to see any advantage, and the fundamental lack of any respect for mousing, which can be in the pro column for many.

We've got a very large app built on Angular, and it has been a real pleasure to work with. The directives are the killer feature for me. There are some definite esoteric bits that can be puzzling at first, but after you crest the hump it is rad. I love it.

Most certainly. I've witnessed it. It was a really bad mistake though.

That's a feature for me. I use it on linux and mac and it feels the same.

https://github.com/angular-app/angular-app this project has an interesting CRUD structure for mongodb and angarjs

Somebody should let them know that unit tests are for us, not them.

Video games is a metric that is easy to verify and familiar to this audience. Sub in a loaf of bread if it is more palatable to your sensibilities.

The core of JetBrains tech is a well built, performant, pluggable foundation that makes them incredibly responsive when it comes to new tools, languages, features, fixes, etc

There is a decent iOS Archon.

Should also add that we don't "force" home education, we discuss it regularly and he's the primary decision maker in terms of what to do for high school.

At 15 I was learning how to binge drink, smoke weed competitively, disrupt class, and use my fists offensively/defensively.

So ya, I might have some advantage in the EQ department, but I regret having blown my youth in school.

When I was learning JS last year, coming from a background using other languages (Python, Actionscript, Java), this was the first book I read. It helped me immensely. Obviously AS3 shares a LOT of DNA with JS, but Crockford's funnel paved the way. Certainly not the be-all-end-all, but for a book I was able to read in an afternoon, I give it high marks.

Just watch out, we get these committed semi-frequently. Whoops!

We have been home educating our four kids. The oldest is 15, enjoys poetry, plays basketball competitively, likes to tinker with computers, reads history, does math, etc. He isn't handicapped by our abilities or knowledge because we provided him with tools to learn. We've made it clear that his education is ultimately his responsibility. It is his job to learn. We serve as mentors and facilitators by providing opportunity.

The other three are on the same trajectory. I understand that you essentially discounted HN parents as exceptions, but we are also part of a broader community and I see similar results with children whose parents have no clue as to what a HN is.

None of them know haskell, but the oldest is working through The Little Schemer.

I absolutely love his joy and wonder as he demonstrates. What a great video. This put a huge smile on my face. Thanks Felix :>