It's important to note that Google does give it's developers the freedom to choose their own tools. If a team isn't excited about Angular or Polymer, it's not forced on them.
If I was building a webapp that was going to have hundreds of millions of users, I'd think twice about grabbing an off the shelf JS library.
I worked for a Swedish company. Because of holidays, vacation leave, maternity and paternity leave, and sick days, there were employees of the company that I never saw. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but it took quite a while to get used to it.
I like the ambiguity in your comment that leaves open the possibility that it was you that never turned up for work due to these various ways if taking time off.
I'm Swedish, and there are definitely people that are away for long periods of time (usually paternity leave), but was it really that many people that you never met? :-) How long did you work there?
Not trying to be snarky, I just want to point out that it's not like you can take vacation year round (even if you're in Sweden..), even though we certainly have quite a bit of vacation (25 days is the norm) and no problem taking half a year of per parent per child.
I live in Sweden too, and I don't get your point. Swedish productivity per worker is up at the top in global terms. Much of Swedish society is set up to benefit workers, and in particular families. So, yes maybe a colleague wasn't at work for 12 months due to paternity or maternity leave. But that's great. Companies need to be structured so that no one worker is indispensible. Once you get your head around that, everything else is logical.
A friend of mine was in a similar situation as Reay. He had no addictions, and no psychological problems, but ended up homeless.
He used his remaining 2k to purchase a 1 year membership at Chelsea Piers sports club. It turned out to be the smartest way he could have used that money. Chelsea Piers is an enormous facility with 20 showers, locker room, huge lounge area with Wifi and couches. He hung out there for most of the day, worked out, learned php, took some freelance web development gigs, got enough experience and knowledge to eventually move on to a full time programming job. In a few months he saved enough money for an apartment in Queens.
I would really like to see those studies, and a link would be great. Our company is on Slack and while we all work hard, we take some time during the day to spontaneously crack jokes and send interesting articles around.
I can't speak for everyone in the group, but I feel a little recharged after a flurry of funny gifs or esoteric programming jokes.
I tried to Google them up before I posted, but I couldn't come up with specific-enough Google terms in the sea of "social". It's been on HN recently; HN being what it is, keep your eye out, it'll roll around again in the next few months.
It's browser vendors that are bearing the torch of interoperability and standards compliance. Unfortunately, most vendors are companies with their own agenda. To add to that, all companies and people interpret standards differently. Given this, it's no wonder we don't see consistent api implementation and behaviors between browsers.
The aftermath of all of this falls on the developer's shoulders, which is why so many hours are poured into getting a modern webapp to work across all browsers. Resources are limited, and at some point, developers have to throw their hands up and resign from having support across all browsers.
When you start using a seemingly mature HTML5 api, and find that it doesn't work as expected in all browsers, what recourse does one have? Should we continue to stifle innovation while we wait for the browser vendor to reach compliance? History shows you're going to be waiting for a while, or for ever.
One option is to ensure that functionality you're relying on can fall back if the feature isn't enabled. While that's not the hip-and-cool thing to do, it is a very valid option and doesn't take considerable time if it's a goal from the outset.
Really? I've been using it but I feel pretty lonely. I ended up creating my own Groovy based version of R / pandas data frames because there is simply nothing out there. I'm curious in what ways you're seeing it used.
A whinge about nomenclature is what I got out of it. At SimplyBuilt we have staff members that foster communication, provide support, and delete spam/irrelevant posts. In our case (and in most cases I guess) the word 'community manager' would have a high handed sound to it, even though they are technically managing a forum.
Agreed. To add to your point about fewer mistakes, it is sometimes difficult to correlate the picture on the screen with what you are seeing on the actual road, causing you to miss turns.
If I was building a webapp that was going to have hundreds of millions of users, I'd think twice about grabbing an off the shelf JS library.