Thanks. It's a good quick run-through with the fundamentals and lives up to the title. I wish there would be simple and short illustrative examples/case-studies - or links to it - in the lessons to prove each point.
The worse, I guess, is the password constraint. I really fail to understand why should any application (except banking, may be) force its users to go for difficult passwords. I agree, it weakens the security - but warn them, don't force them. It should be a guideline; not a rule. Whether I want to follow it not is my decision; my risk.
The whole story is enjoyable; especially the Ballmer Visit part. It's surprising to see the city council reacting that way to his visit. Something that is hard to understand in many parts of the world.
A cleaner way to convert a function declaration into a function expression would be to use brackets
(function() {
//code here
})();
This won't affect the return type of the statement; which in case of using ! will return boolean 'true' unless the function returns a truthy value. Plus using ! for this purpose, looks totally messy.
I'm one of the authors. We hope it's a good start of a collection for OmniGraffle users. Requesting everyone to contribute; submit more stencils and make this place great.
First thing - don't search for motivation or don't try to get yourself motivated. You'll end up looking for things that will make you feel good which will in-turn promote procrastination and thereby take you away from actions. The truth is motivation doesn't last. It's a push mechanism. You'll have to focus on things that pull you towards it.
If you keep going like the way you are currently, how would your life be? Definitely you understand the problem with it and this post is the proof. But ask yourself - "why do you want to get A-levels at school?". If programming and researching keeps you going, by all means, you should focus on it. Make sure you put the best possible efforts in it; the rest will follow automatically.
I trust, that's a good decision. The context of a component should always be carried with the component. I myself, found the global menus a lot troublesome, although the design intention to provide more room was successful.
It was a wrong choice of tool for that kind of a project, in the first place. The biggest problem that I've personally seen with AngularJS is the steep learning curve.
Hats off to the simplicity and focus these guys have. I have loved and admired this company over years. These announcements have only added more respect for them.
Excellent work there. I always wanted to work on such a public collection but kudos to these guys on making it a reality. I've used/read-about/tried-out most of the stuff listed there and appreciate the hardwork that has gone into putting all of it together.
I think Polymer (Google) and Brick (Mozilla) deserves a mention there as Web Components have a very high possibility of becoming the ultimate way for the future of web development.
Most probably they had a very valid reason. Why don't you first try to talk to your coworker who got fired? And there is no harm in talking to your manager as well about it; just act neutral, though.
I could find almost nothing on this thread to agree with. None of the other comments here make sense. I have high respect for HN community but this page make me doubt it. Why should we discuss the name? Apple, Windows - aren't they funny product names? How does it matter? What matters is a new product is launching - our community's criticism should help the product owner. If there are things that we believe won't work - give reasons. Appreciate what's good about it. Name, too, can be criticized but don't make fun out of it. Somebody has worked so hard on making that product a reality; respect that hardwork.
What I like about the product is the very idea. And also the way they have explained it on the website, the graphics, text everything. Really appreciable.
Thanks a lot. We weren't thinking about online schooling. We were hoping that schools of similar thinking and syllabus would come together to form some sort of network where they would allow pupils to attend from any of their supported locations. I know, it is asking for too much, especially, when it's the whole world that I'm talking about and not just US.