VexX0r

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Would it be possible to see a surprise guest appearance from Nicky V at LTX?

Nicky V sounds like a person will laugh at you if you have a bad hair cut for 2 weeks, but will stick for you if you are in any real trouble. 
He act like a bully... but.. that's not who he really is.
Really liked him though. 

I have to admit, the clickbait is bad. But people are really jumping on the "OMG CLICKBAIT LETS BURN THEM ALL TO DEATH" quick.

start another thread for discussing Chelsea

Hm, interesting. This is the first I have heard of this. It might be good to have that in a separate thread since this one is for Nicky V. Plus I would prefer this thread to not get shut down if there was some sort of internal dispute over that picture. I want this to be a fun end to a meme dream. 

Same problem here, I can see clips from it but can't see the whole thing.  WAN Show is late enough in the UK so I tend to watch the next day but am really interested in what was discussed after.  Now.... Scrapyard Wars time!

2 questions:
 
were is the afterparty and why no WAN show on floatplane?
 
bonus idea: WAN show afterparty on floatplane only...

What?
 
You're so far in the realm of the conceptual, you've forgot to look at reality.
 
You're saying that you can make any language do what you want (with sufficient planning, architectural oversight, etc).  This is true.
 
What I'm saying is that instead of diving in and leaving the details for later, have some forethought and use a language that's made for this kind of heavy lifting.
 
You want them to work for their code.  I think their code should work for them.

I'm a software dev and founding member of 2 separate startups.  I'm gonna put my $0.02 Canadian Rubles in here and say that this is something that probably shouldn't be 100% in Node.  I know it simplifies things to have JS across the board, but hear me out.
 
Node will give you nothing but headaches when it comes to any real heavy lifting.
Video encoding?  Forget about it. 
Performance with huge amounts of concurrent users?  Only if you're willing to pay $$$ to Amazon for your d2.8xlarge instances
 
This is coming from someone who loves Node and JS in general.  I think this is something that will exist to only be re-written when any volume of users climb on.
 
I can hear it now. "Hey, asshole!  This is about iterating quickly, not optimization!".  I get that, and I know that quick iteration is crucial, but I'm going to propose what I think is a way better solution.
 
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You really should hire people to make an API in an appropriate language/framework. Choose Go, choose Django or Flask, hell, even choose Rails.  Don't choose JS.
 
Decoupling your API logic from your views allows for great flexibility in terms of tech used.  Node can be your presenter, while Go is running the business logic since that's what these languages excel at.  Then, when you want a desktop app, your Node project can be incorporated into Electron and still be served by that API.
 
Same with phone apps.  Use React Native as a presenter, use a stable API as your workhorse.
 
If you still need quick iteration, don't use Go and use Rails 5 API mode instead.  This way, you can start very quickly (much quicker than Node), then swap out services for an equivalent service in a better language when concurrency becomes an issue.  Websockets exist in pretty much every language/framework, so those are a non-issue.
 
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Again, I'm a JS dev who also loves Rails and Go.  I think that Node is a very appealing choice for a lot of websites, but not one that requires real computational work to be done. 
 
 
 

@nickImg @LinusTech - might want to revisit that intro, it's looking pretty incriminating right now 
 
 
 
 

@nickImg @LinusTech - might want to revisit that intro, it's looking pretty incriminating right now 
 
 
 
 

@nickImg @LinusTech - might want to revisit that intro, it's looking pretty incriminating right now 
 
 
 
 

@nickImg @LinusTech - might want to revisit that intro, it's looking pretty incriminating right now