johannboehme

But QBasic etc. were just basic text editor with a "run" option. They didn't have many fancy IDE features. You didn't even have syntax highlighting most of the time. I don't think editing a html file locally is more painful than figuring out those tools back then. I would even argue that's a good place to start because a full blown IDE can also be really intimidating if you don't really know whats happening.

you dont need to understand $path to start coding in javascript. Just open a textfile with .html ending in an editor and in your browser.. You don't have to set up anything to get going.

Does the author not get browsers at all?

Chrome should include a nodejs installation by default because the commandline is scary? Does he know, that node is based on the V8 engine that's part of Chrome? Packing it in would be redundant and it's a pure backend integration. You dont need nodejs to learn javascript.

If Pathes and Commands are scary, just right-click on your desktop. Click New->Text Document and name it "index.html". Open the document in a text editor of your choice. insert <html><head><script>### </script></head><body></body></html> into the file. Replace ### with your js code. Open file in browser.. Its that easy. FFS, some people just want to complain.

good!

What attribute do you think is relevant in reality to be a board member of a bigger company? Do you think it's skill related? No, its arbitrary and based on nepotism. So disrupting rigid structures inside existing balances of power via quotas is a good thing. Lets start with women and not end there.

if we give up a huge part of our freedom as the price, i would say lets not.

don't you think this security first approach is bad for our society? If walled golden cages like iOS become the only available option, average users will have an even harder time to get into general purpose computing and programming. Generation iPad doesn't even know what a file system is anymore.

And updating an existing product i own to kill its main function i use for work is outright evil.

It's like your car pushing an update restricting it to only drive on vendor approved roads, because there are some people getting in accidents on poorly maintained dirt roads.

"Hobbyists and specialists can buy products for them if they like" Where? Linux phones are atm unusable as daily drivers.

I have that palmtop and implemented it in qbasic after seeing the movie. (of course also only the animation) Wrote some more "hacker-simulators" after that. Got me into programming.