I really like node.js, but I'm afraid I can't say the same for the logo or even the statement that someone needs to "jettison preconceived notions about what Node should look like". I mean, really? For a revolution that was engineer led, sounds a bit like marketing bs to me. And that's something node.js doesn't need.
PS. Do not consider this a troll comment. It's just my opinion.
You don't need to like a logo. Having any logo that isn't a total farce is a good idea for any project that wants to get wider adoption and recognition (I think they only had a basic textual one before?)
I write about (and teach) programming languages and libraries for a living. The brand of a project is an important part of the way in which I approach or portray them since it has a bigger impact on readers than most non-media techs would naturally assume.
Fair enough point, but they already have a logo... the word "node" followed by a little cloud then the letters JS. There's not really anything wrong with the old logo, but it's more the wording around the announcement of the new logo that irks me the most I guess... feels so "corporate".
The interchangeable use of 'Ruby' and 'Rails' in the original article (and some of the comments) is indicative of someone who has not taken the time to understand either. Conjecture like that is not worth the GET.
I wonder if anyone will take this research and look at the appetite suppressing qualities of nicotine in light of this... perhaps a totally natural drug is already available to block CB1 receptors!
When presented with '1 + 1 = 2', some people will be interested enough to ask why, and others won't give a fuck. Same goes for 'Hitler invaded Poland'. It doesn't mean one person is better or worse than the other, they're just different.
The real problem will arise when people stop being interested. And when that happens it won't be the fault of the Khan Academy or wikipedia or the Internet or TV or video games or religion or <insert favoured target here>.
To be fair, it should be a lot less expansive to get a complex UI running for 90% of a typical user base with silverlight, provided that your business model allows you to ignore the fsf crowd. In the context of those touchy-feely applications for windows 8, it is a hysterically stupid move to force developers into the web stack, and then tell them to go fuck themselves and port the whole shit to Silverlight for WP7 devices. It is really less "cross platform", considered what platforms those devs care about.
I can think of very few reasons for this idiocy besides relations between OS and devtools devision having quietly deteriorated from post WWII style peace to nuclear war.
The platforms that I, when doing .NET development, care about are:
-Windows
-Windows Phone
-Xbox 360 (for games)
And maybe Linux if I'm feeling really charitable and want to make my stuff Mono-compatible.
JavaScript is not a first-class language on at least two of those platforms. It's not a cross-platform application development language on three of them.
I have these tiger repellent shoes. They're just standard black/black Adidas Superstars, but I have never seen a tiger while wearing them (and i have travelled a lot).
I'm not sure age discrimination actually exists in the startup industry, and certainly anyone who equates correlation with causation doesn't have any place attempting to do anything that requires a modicum of intelligence IMHO. Nor would i want to work with a VC who made such an error.
What I find funny is that people just throw these stats out there without any acknowledgement of this, nor any discussion of confounding variables - at least David Lee is acknowledging that he should have done so during his presentation rather than after. I bet there is significant correlation between the founders of successful companies and their families socio-economic background too - look at how many are Ivy League graduates or dropouts. How about their marital status? Number of children? Personal debt? Tenure related benefits? These factors are likely much more significant than age in determining the amount of time and effort a person can put into something, and how much risk one is willing to take doing anything. However since age has a strong correlation with these other attributes it's just easier for people use age as a kind of summary statistic. Recognition of this is severely lacking, especially amongst the media types (who I'm sure actually do know better, but it's a pretty boring headline isn't it?).
Anyone can do anything they want with enough time and effort. Some people need less of these than others, and timing has a lot to do with success. But it has precisely fuck all to do with age alone.
I meant I could do better if I actually was part of LinkedIn management. Obviously I am not proposing I could rebuild the entire achievement to date, that would be silly.
It's not whining, it's a reasonable comment - why the heck hasn't LinkedIn built something useful instead of resumes that are only shown to a few people, even though no-one actually seems to care if they are totally public.
LinkedIn has to be held to account for their failure to capitalize on owning the biggest (only) professional network in the world - why have they not been able to effectively capitalize/monetize it?
I agree with your guess. This kind of thing seems right up Microsoft's alley. They used to have an entire campaign using the phrase: "Welcome to the Social". If one of the big players goes in, I'm guessing Microsoft.
I agree with ehutch79, x86 virtualisation is well over 10 years old. There are many free (both as in freedom and as in beer) virtualisation options available currently, does FAUmachine cream everything else in terms of performance or ease of management or something?
I don't mean to detract from the academic aspects, nor from the effort that must have been put in. But "next cool thing"?
It is aimed at debugging embedded systems, not at server virtualization. Performance and ease of management are not so imporant in this case, configurability and ease of writing virtual devices is.
I think there's a disconnect in the headline, and what the software does. I can definitely see how that would be very useful to the right people, I don't see how it could be the 'cool new thing in VMs'
Reading a bit the project site the only interesting (not to the general public) thing is the fault injection extension to qemu that uses a subset of VHDL* to define tests, even if it's not really clear what you can do with that.
Definitely not a "new twist" in virtualization, just an extension to test/develop academic projects.
PS. Do not consider this a troll comment. It's just my opinion.