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I use Fabric both at work and for my own projects. It's really simple to use, and I especially like that each function automatically becomes a Fabric command. Makes it easy to do "fab test", "fab migrate"... etc.

Peter Naur (Turing award winner) wrote an Antiphilosophical Dictionary. http://www.naur.com/Antiphil.html.

Great site, you should make it fail on window resize events too... at least that is one more thing you can detect.

Mine is also simple. I will try to avoid getting a wife.

Backbone.js! Hits the sweetspot for a lightweight clientside MVC framework.

Interesting. Had not heard about most of these projects before.

No, because FB has allowed them access to these data.

Here is a review: http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/publications/book_reviews/ful...

I thought so too.

I refactored my app using Backbone.js, and it really hits the sweetspot in terms of being lightweight and flexible. I really like how view objects, collections and models abstractions are so simple, yet fit so well together (change:attribute events etc...) Until now I also used jaskenas HashHistory snippet for routing...

I recently sold my huge apartment + furnitures, don't have a car anymore. I really felt owning these things were limiting my freedom and having a huge cost both economically as well as mentally. I'm really excited about embarking on a more minimalistic lifestyle, where I think twice about the cost of ownership. I now have more money and more freedom. Great article.

I actually liked his post. It just sounded a bit over the top the way he described his commitment, when he wrote he had been at it for 2 months. But I admit my (and others) reply was a little bit self gloating.

Nice post, but 2 months?? Try 2 years! Try 60 hour coding sessions! Try getting your first paying customer! Then we can talk!

Thanks for this. Just in the process of migrating my app to Backbone.js.

Yep, I'm wondering the same... Sammy has routes, but no real models structure. So I assume the two don't overlap too much?

Thinkpad X series (or T410). By far the best.

This dude is late to the party. This seems to me like something that could have been written two or three years ago. Lots of developers have for a long time appreciated the powerful features and expressiveness of JavaScript.

You can use unique urls with ajax. Just use location.hash (url/#something).

Please notice a frontend coder is not a user experience designer. So having good design skills is not necessary to work as a frontend coder.

I'm confused... why would they ever come up with a solution like this?

Good catch.

transloadit just launched. They do just that. Looks pretty cool.

The NoSQL datastores are aimed at solving scaling issues. The current relational databases are a pain to scale. It's not about hating SQL.

Don't feed the trolls.

I use a javascript MVC framework called Claypool for structuring my client-side code. It's really good! http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Claypool

The best HTML5 introduction I've seen so far. Very nice! This just gets me even more excited about the future of web apps.

Jason Rohrer has done some interesting things. He is the author of MUTE. A p2p network with a high level of anonymity. Also he lives a very spartan life, entirely off donations from the users of his software (at least he used to).

Come on HN, you can do better than this!!

No, I had people asking to join me. I was not interested.

Personally I much prefer to be a single founder. If you have the technical skills, the rest can be learned. Not saying the business side of a startup is less important, just that it is easier and quicker to learn.