Steve Ballmer is simply incompetent. 13 long years and Microsoft is alive and kicking.
Worry not, dear shareholders. Stephen Elop has a proven track record in Nokia.
In the grand scheme, Node and Mongo are still quite new; for the most part, ace JavaScript developers who can write brilliant code on both sides of the request transaction have yet to emerge, but if and when they do, the things they build could be jaw-dropping.
Can any real developer explain why having a javascript backend would be any different to any other backend in such a way where something jaw-dropping could only be the result of the javascript backend?
Most of the people who made lots of money in the market were not bitcoin miners (though that has probably changed if anybody has half a brain). It was the speculators. People who bought bitcoins hoping their market value would go up.
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Homebrew and Homebrew Cask - Almost every application I need, effortlessly installed / updated / uninstalled
Chromium - Mainly synchronising web sessions across machines
TextWrangler - Free, simple editor that can handle most common programming languages very well.
VLC - opens just about any type of video files
Fluid - generate native OSX apps for websites. I use it for Google Tasks
IntelliJ - most productive IDE for myself
Nosleep - prevents Macbook from going to sleep when closing the lid, great for moving around within the office, presentations
Tarsnap - backup with encryption and deduplication
ImgurBar - drag and drop to share images
Politicians and journalists computes approximately most of the time.
Steve Ballmer is simply incompetent. 13 long years and Microsoft is alive and kicking. Worry not, dear shareholders. Stephen Elop has a proven track record in Nokia.
In the grand scheme, Node and Mongo are still quite new; for the most part, ace JavaScript developers who can write brilliant code on both sides of the request transaction have yet to emerge, but if and when they do, the things they build could be jaw-dropping.
Can any real developer explain why having a javascript backend would be any different to any other backend in such a way where something jaw-dropping could only be the result of the javascript backend?
Not so much the Javascript backend; but the fact that node.js is highly scalable, as well as event-based and non-blocking IO features.
Most of the people who made lots of money in the market were not bitcoin miners (though that has probably changed if anybody has half a brain). It was the speculators. People who bought bitcoins hoping their market value would go up.
FTFY
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... so that the fire brigade, police and other law enforcement officers will not be out of work.