http://mvc-the-podcast.github.io/201...ching-css.html

Here is one pod cast I found. Hosts are a computer science lecturer for Stanfords intro cs classes, and a Google developer. Content is kinda meh but I haven't been able to find anything better.

I enjoy this python focused one: http://talkpython.fm/.

One thing to note though if you haven't seen it is that Google released a module called ng-upgrade, which will allow you to use Angular 1.x components in Angular 2 applications. So assuming that works properly, the Angular 1.x ecosystem should still be available.

They're on it, Calico and probably secret teams too.

There was a book that I read a few years ago about the science of immortality (oh fine I looked it up, "Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality") where the speculation is that it's pretty close.

In the meantime you could watch Hannah and Her Sisters which has some pretty profound answers for you.

Has the Rails job market kind of dried up? I was thinking about starting to learn it but it looks like the major city (DC) I am planning to move into in a few years does not have many job listings.

Maybe I should stick with Java.

What site are you using for listings?

Any other sort of books like this people can recommend for between semesters?

JavaScript; the Good Parts is a very good book. Never mind the fact that Good Parts is the shortest programming book ever written, while still spending 75% of the book talking about the bad parts, it will give a solid framework for approaching all programming languages because they all have bad parts.

Wiley's Assembly Language is ostensibly about x86, but doesn't spend a whole lot of time talking about programming it. It is full of fun history.

Beautiful Code is another book of not-so-much programming, but full of neat little ideas.

Hackers, Heros of the Computer Revolution may be interesting to you. It is about the old-school hacker culture. Think DEP machines.

The Productive Programmer is full of little bits of information, but mostly somewhat common sense.

Don't Make Me Think is a usability and UI guide. It won't make you a UI expert, but it is a fun little book that I think hits the mark (and you may be tempted to send a PDF to 99% of all websites you visit).

This is one of my GOAT books, top 5. A good chunk of it is about Sierra On-Line, one of the early computer game companies, and the crazy culture they had there in a California mountain town.

CLRS is the gold standard.

You can make an easy brute solution force to it. Make 7 nested loops, one for each currency. the outer most loop is the hundreds and goes from 0 to N/100. The inner most loop is the ones and goes from 0 to N. Check every combo.

Glad there is a +1 on this. I haven't read it entirely yet.

If you're into that sort of thing, check out Masters of Deception. I didn't know those guys personally but knew people who were doing the same thing. Someone gave me a password to get into Ma Bell one time. We poked around a little but got spooked.

I was more into trading pirated Commodore 64 video games over BBSs. We did have a bunch of codes for free long distance. Someone had figured out Sprint's algorithm for creating the 12-digit (I think) pins. Lol at not using random.

There's a really great episodic documentary by Jason Scott called "BBS: The Documentary". You can find full downloads of it legally.

Only FLOSS weekly which basically features random FLOSS projects and can be technical or gossipy. Good light listening.
https://twit.tv/episodes?filter[shows]=1639

Good list, "The Design of Everyday Things" is still a classic. Not about software but rather real world objects but the design principles can be applied. I still enjoy hanging out by heavily frequented doors and snickerng at the usability issues every now and then

A good algorithm book is probably also a good idea. I like "The Algorithm Design Manual" quite a bit.

For JS I can recommend my personal two book course of "Eloquent JavaScript" followed by "Functional JavaScript". It's a pretty steep learning curve though (imo)

I still haven't worked through it but "The Elements of Computing Systems" is pretty nice. Build a computer from first principles (NAND gate to operating system running Tetris). Pretty fun if you enjoy this sort of thing.

For general design - I really like The Art of Innovation.

Another one from my library, I found Clean Code fairly enlightening, too.

Not to be used as dogmatic "thou shalt (not)" reference, but points out some really good things to keep in mind. Having read it, it will affect the way you look at what you're coding. In most cases, in a good way.

I did get bored at the database stuff as I found it less useful for my daily routines. So did not progress beyong those chapters.

The more I write it the more JSX continues to confound me. Must have closing input tags? "defaultChecked" instead of "checked" for input[type="checkbox"]? Ohh kayyyy. And like you really couldn't handle "class" and need me to do "className" 1000x?

uh oh... the rabble are starting to use react now

it'll be dead in a year

When we converted a big part of our site from Weblogic to node - we were so swamped with other stuff let our offshore team own a part of it that we knew very few users actually used. I'm going through it now to make a POC for something else and finding code like this:

Those else blocks are really doing a lot there guys. Unbelievable. And this is *after* they had a big code cleanup round that I wasn't involved in. I'm guessing at one time the subject in the else blocks was a variable - then someone just replaced it with req.query.resultsetend w/o paying a tiny bit of attention to notice that the code was now doing nothing.

Also you should never modify the incoming query object - but that one I can forgive as run of the mill bad coding, not surreal lack of basic understanding like the else blocks.

You're still on React? Psshhh - get with the times old man - everyone uses Flummox now.

Note to self: flummox would make a pretty awesome framework name.

http://acdlite.github.io/flummox

https://discuss.reactjs.org/t/lost-o...ion-to-use/545

With saying that I feel lost on what flux implementation to actually persue. The last few weeks been playing with flux, mcfly, fluxible, marty and the list goes on. Each with there own pro's and con's (sigh).

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am faced with the same dilemma. Currently using Flummox, but want to migrate after its deprecated.

I want something that will be long-term maintained, and uses a single centralized store.

Options:

Redux
Microcosm
NuclearJS


http://dailyjs.com/2015/04/12/webrx-flummox/

Flummux seems to be some Flux-on-top-of React WebRX framework that combines the dependencies of Angular UI router, built on top of ReactRX with strong influence from Knockout, focused on people who like TypeScript!

I do not envy JS devs at all. Some world you all created for yourselves.

Yeah it's surreal.