BFD

My wife and I have had the Fitbit Surge and now the Fibit Charge. I think the Charge does a better job wit monitoring heart rate. Like I stated, I have done a fair amount of exercise with other heart rate monitoring devices and doing the same exercise and monitoring with the Surge, the readings correlate very well.

API/demo pages like lodash and this one where all searches just throw you on the first page really piss me off. Let me deep link to the damn thing I searched for.

node peeps,

koa, hapi, express, other?

Has koa taken off?

We use express and like it. From the guy I know who's the node guy at Heroku he said like 3/4 were on express and 1/4 on hapi. But that was 11 months ago.

If you go with express you might want to try my little add-on: https://github.com/jackspaniel/nodulejs. Basically it self-discovers node components, enforces the component-driven pattern, and allows easy re-organizing of the file structure. I think of it as like one baby step beyond express.

I just realized I need to update the readme. I originally thought of nodulejs as a building block for yukon. But now I've started using it standalone for little projects, as have a few devs who left our company.

A guy I talked to at the Mongo class I took said he teaches hackathons and is frustrated watching the kids take a long time just to get node up and running with mongo. He said if I add mongo support and a yeo generator he'd start encouraging his kids to use it. Now I just need some free time.

i don't really know -- it has more gh stars than hapi now, whatever that's worth.

the design philosophy seems very similar to rack in ruby. the request passes down through a series of middlewares which you specify, and then comes back up through them. so if want a router, you specify some router middleware up near the top, and then you can use nice human-friendly route syntax in that parts of the app below that. similarly for authentication or whatever else you want.

koa is new hotness etc. I'm not switching until I see a bullet proof integration with passport and mongoose. It might be there already IDK but yeah, reliability is more important than "it uses x ES6 feature".

That's basically what express is, just a route and a bunch of middleware functions.

I'm going to build a DIY treadmill desk that works with 3 monitors.

If anyone has good links/ experience let me know.

Quickest way to learn enough JavaScript to make it through an intern-level job interview?

http://www.afcindustries.com/standin...treadmill-p746

That seems like the opposite of DIY and they want me to call to get a price.

Ideally I want to keep this to ~1k maximum if possible.

I wouldn't think wildly successful businessman would be the DIY type

/shrug

When you are responsible for paying all of the bills at a company, you will find frugality in all things is important.

Also who likes getting ripped off ever?

Sorry that it's in reference to a couple of pages back but couldn't help myself...here's some bad (non) rhyming:
Bubble, bubble...bootcamps are the shovel

What do you all think of interviewers who curse in the interview?

Depends on the situation and the word(s) used

Context matters. If it slips out or in something like "oh yeah, we did some work with technology X and it was a huge pain in the ass..." then I don't think it's a big deal. We're all adults.

But if it's just unnecessary and repeated cursing it seems pretty unprofessional.

They use words that would be converted to stars on this site. It is actually quite common out here.

I'll read the linked article later but...Haskell seems fairly compact from the code snippets I read. There was also an article recently about 0install rewritten in OCaml which turned out to be roughly the same LOC as the previous Python implementation (10x speed).
http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/0...retrospective/

Java 8 is fairly compact...it's still verbose but not to a degree where I'd say it bothers me much.

If you haven't done it, I'm 99.9% sure codecademy.com has a JavaScript module. That seems like as good a place as any for starting new languages in my opinion.

Cheers!

All,

I am currently taking two programming classes, C++, and Visual C++ .Net Windows programming. I have also started to learn C, and I was wondering how those of you experienced with these languages could quantify the differences, between C and C++, the pros and cons, and if one lends itself better to programming certain things than others?

From what I know (which is very limited at this point), I think C++ would obviously be better for game development, because it's object oriented. Yes?

C is only used for stuff like embedded systems, stuff that is simple or needs to be fast. I know there are a bunch of C++ game engines. That concludes my knowledge of the subject.

Scott Myers a C++ guru states the following more ot less about C++:

C++ is a federation of:

-- C
-- Classes
-- Standard Template Library
-- Template metapromming

So studying C++ would be the way to go.

In C, there are more things you need to do manually, one of the biggest ones being malloc. You have to allocate the memory for data structures which require memory from the heap. Also, you have to say how much memory you want in bytes... this can lead to some really nasty bugs potentially if you mess up the malloc calls at the beginning of a program.

C gives you more control over memory, and more interactions with the operating system. It's used for embedded programming and efficiency mostly because it is a "native" language, although I think C++ is also considered native.

C uses structs, whereas C++ has classes. C++ is definitely better if you want to do object oriented.

If you need pure efficiency go with C though.

That be said, I've never coded with C++11 or 14 and I'm not sure what developments are going on. I read Scott Myers new book Effective Modern C++... I was totally lost.

Yeah, I'd done it already, but like 9 months ago and hadn't really touched it since. Went over it a bit yesterday, seems pretty similar to Java except you use 'var' and 'function' all over the place, and == is apparently the devil