nathanwdavis

I thought Javascript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov was pretty good and not too client-side centric.

You don't HAVE to build from source:

   brew install node

And I think there is a deb package as well. But, I think I remember someone on the core team recommending to just build from source for now. I have not been doing that and it has been fine though.

> Its asynchronous, non-blocking architecture means it’s incredibly fast.

Those characteristics mean it can handle more simultaneous connections, but don't directly lead to more speed. I feel that is worth nitpicking about. Nodejs is pretty fast, but I think that has more to do with V8, libev, libio, and Ryan's http parser being really fast.

I've been pretty happy with the Hacker News app by Michael Grinich, but this looks promising and competition is a wonderful thing.

If memcached, what do you do to make sure sessions aren't lost. On their FAQ (http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/HowToSessions) it sounds like it is not intended to be used for sessions. Thoughts?

I love posts like this. There are too many blog posts that make it to the top of HN that are just complaining or speculating of some type. I would much rather read a detailed write-up on the discovery and solution to a problem.

Use npm (node package manager).

This kid lives only a few minutes from me. I'm surprised I hadn't heard about him earlier.

I sincerely hope they don't do a course on Website performance or page asset loading. Turn on Firebug and refresh the site, and you'll see no script/css combining, lots of un-minified js, and a total download of more than half a megabyte on the homepage. It feels slow too.

Wow, he was originally told by product team members:

> that "generics is for academics only"

I can't imagine programming C# without generics!!

Wow, very deceiving title. The combined number of deals by both New York and Boston was greater than of Silicon Valley. And that is just the number, not the actual amount of invested capital. This is just link bait.

If this is a problem with the UIWebView in general, then the problem affects a lot more than just saved Web Apps. Many, many native apps use the UIWebView.

> And while you're at it, find a designer friend to create a banner that wont make your users want to poke their eyes out with a stick.

I think that's the idea - startle the IE6 user with a logo that is so atrocious that they give in ("Uncle, uncle, OK, I'll do it!!")

I was surprised to find 'Purely Functional Data Structures' so far down the list.

BND is not really that safe. I've owned it for the past 2 years or so. There are occasional price swings (likely caused by interest rate speculation, but not sure) that can knock out months of dividend income gains. I would say that more diversity than just BND is needed for the bonds allocation.

Looks nice. It kind of reminds me of LINQ (in spirit)

too much!!

Interesting that on a six core machine there is very little gain after a Degree of Parallelism of 3. The problem does seem highly data parallelizable (is that a word). So why isn't it able to better utilize the 6 cores?

Hey, great links. Thanks!!

Can you explain why please?

Yeah, I don't mind it either. Syntax is not a big deal to me, I care more about the unique capabilities of a language are. But I have heard other developers say they hate it.

This is still very alpha, but I'm submitting this because I really hope this succeeds. Erlang is really powerful and provides more modern paradigms for concurrent programming that just are not easily implemented in other VMs. However, Erlang's prolog inspired syntax is a big turnoff to many programmers. This could be a breakthrough.

For the less technical it sometimes helps to qualify what something is even if it is embedded in the abbreviation. But considering the audience here, you're right. I will remove the offending word.

I would add one thing: get to know HTTP. Even a basic understanding will prevent you from making costly mistakes.

There are frameworks full of very high-level abstractions that can make it a lot easier up front. BUT, that only delays it being hard down the road when the abstraction you got for free has to be replaced. Often that time comes very quickly.

I'm curious how the Ticker object provides more accurate tick timing than setTimeout considering it just uses setTimeout.

300 ms response time doesn't seem so good.

Nice use of sound effects too!!

What is the proximity of this building to Wall Street? I wonder if they are looking to get a foot into the high frequency trading business in some way.

I didn't see a link to the FAQ anywhere. I see now it is a small link at the very bottom.

Regardless, I still don't see what the great value proposition is other than that they are friendly. My bank (a small local bank) has never charged me a overdraft fee, never had to wait more than a minute, and I can only remember one time that I paid an ATM fee. I must have just been lucky enough to get one of the non-evil banks.