If you need to perform complex DOM manipulation jQuery is still the best tool, fortunately recent javascript frameworks drastically reduced the need for manual DOM manipulation. Usually you encapsulate your jQuery DOM manipulation code using your framework of choice, this is very common when doing specialized UI components.

That is called hyperinflation and the only reason it has NOT happened in Greece is because Greece uses the Euro. It happened to several countries in the last couple of centuries.

For a formal explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

For a funny explanation (they wipe their asses with money, literally):
http://www.cracked.com/persona...

Well it is from the MIT, it must be good right?

That is like the second easiest pointer-driven data structure...

One HR skype interview (~1 hour)
One technical skype coding interview (~1.5h hours)
One manager skype interview (~1 hour)
One home exercise (~8 hours over one week)
One on-site interview

It took some time (around 40 days), but I thought the overall process was fair. The worst part was that after every interview it took around one week to get any response from the company, they should had really streamlined the process so I could take the several interviews in a row and take the home exercise in a single day.

I think he meant the development API

It is an evil practice born of corporate interests, just because it could be evilier does not mean we should turn a blind eye to it.

This article is not about nodejs being bad, it is about low experienced programmers doing crappy things with it. It is basically saying: "To architecture good scalable web applications you need to be a smart guy with some experience". Well that is pretty much the same thing for all languages...

The author then goes into a rant that I can only compare to VB6 rants of the old days: It made easier for beginners to get into the bandwagon, so much code written in it sucked, this caused VB6 to have a fame for being a bad language because of that (which was not true at all at the time).

Meteor ( https://www.meteor.com/ ) is a javascript framework that runs on top of Nodejs and it is GREAT. It is a full stack solution, it has a view engine (Blaze templating language, based on handlebars), a server (Nodejs) and a database (MongoDB) all bundled up and it just works out of the box, no configuration required. From the meteor website:

"Really, you'd like to use a combination of packages that have been not just tested individually, but tested together, since so much of the complexity in a large software project comes not from its individual pieces but from how they're integrated. Rather than leaving your package system to select the "best" combination of package versions, which could change every day and could be a totally new combination that nobody else has ever tried, you'd like to use a set of packages that has been comprehensively tested by professional release engineers that really know the platform.

That's what the Meteor Distribution provides. Similar to a Redhat or Ubuntu distribution, the Meteor Distribution is a set of package versions that have been tested and recommended for use together."

And that is just one of the great features that Meteor provides. Another great feature of Meteor is that your Javascript code runs both on the server and on the client _at the same time_. Whatever action you make that triggers a state change (change in the database) will run both on the client and on the server, the client has something called MiniMongo that caches the result from the server database and the changes happen without a roundtrip to the server. If the server state is not consistent with the client state Meteor takes care of synchronizing everything. So the application looks like is running locally there is no lag at all.

This drastically reduce the code necessary for example, you don't write form validation code twice, you write it once and show a popup message on the client and throw an exception on the server if something is wrong. Really everything in Meteor works great, there is a really good automatic deploy system (it even deploys to phonegap, also I believe you can deploy your mobile apps to app stores automatically), the API is really small, the meteor packages work great (check out the Velocity testing framework, it is awesome!) and so on

There is one big caveat though, you can't migrate parts of your existing application to Meteor, the only real optional part of Meteor is the View layer, you can discard Blaze and run your own solution. I have had a great time using React with Meteor for example.

I am aware of those features but most applications that rely on relational databases use some kind of object relational mapping, I never looked into it bu how is the support of those features in that context?

To me Wolfstein has the same artistic value as Inglourious Basterds. Wikipedia says that the film was not censored in germany, but the posters and such were. Yet the content itself of one was censored and the other was not.

While I agree with your overall vision this hypothetical sandbox would benefit greatly for being inside the browser itself because browsers are crossplatform.

It is kind of unfair really, some jobs allow you to contribute to opensource, others do not. Those who can work on open source projects at the job will have more notable github accounts, that does not necessarily mean they are better than the guy who does not have a github account. It is unfair, but the hiring manager position is understandable, it is one thing to hear about a project and another to see the code.

Huh, I was not aware of that. They should put those job ads when you are checking out repositories cross-reference the job positing with the repository files for better matches (and of course put a "disable job ads" option on your profile)

I am surprised that github still does not have a job board on the site, not only is it a MAJOR money income, it is also quite useful for the devs themselves. It is one of the few win-win monetization situations as long as the user can opt-out of seeing the job ads. Pretty much any job ad that asks you to send your github profile would be advertising there.