Thank you for the input. Maybe I will never get to the point where I can comfortably make a web app, but learning the language has been a fun experience so far. I've heard good things about Scala and Akka.
Elixir and OTP are really nice, but I'm frustrated by the type system, even with typespecs. I finally gave in and started learning Haskell. I would still choose Elixir/Phoenix for some web apps though.
I had to build a couple of Samsung TV apps, and that indeed looks like their IDE. It's Javascript (you can use HTML or Flash). Not much of a threat to Apple though, it is the worst platform I have ever developed for.
It's great thing that you use RequireJS to organize your code, and you should keep doing it. We use RequireJS at work and it works pretty well. However my personal preference is browserify, but use whatever works for you.
Yes but as I said I don't need async loading of scripts, since all my code is packed in usually a single file. Therefore I don't need the RequireJS syntax, and I'd rather stick with a simple require syntax.
If you use node, I'd stick with browserify. RequireJS is nice if you want to load scripts asynchronously, but in reality your code is usually packed to one or two files so there is no need for the asynchronous part. Plus I dislike the RequireJS syntax, but that's personal taste.
It took me more than four months after college to find my first job as an intern. Six months later, I got offered a better job so I quit. However during the transition I was offered some well paid freelance gigs so I didn't end up taking the second job. After 4 years of freelancing and moving out of a big city, I got tired of working alone so I joined a small team in a non-tech company. Six month later, I was getting bored so I looked for work in a major city. I found one startup that did something that sounded interesting, so I sent them an email even though they weren't advertising opened positions. An hour later I got a response, and two weeks later I was working for them. The past 3 months, I got offered 2 jobs and Facebook contacted me for the second time.
This isn't even the Silicon Valley -- I live in Europe. Sometimes I wonder if I'm smart or not. I know I probably wouldn't be able to answer all of these trick questions I hear about. I think I'm much better at abstracting concepts and seeing the whole picture. I love programming, but so far I haven't found a place where I can have as much fun as when I am creating software on my own, free of constraints and in control of everything. When I work on my own, every now and then I stop coding, sometimes for days, thinking, sketching, until I know exactly what I'm going to do and can explain why in plain English.
Anyways, I think younger programmers might enjoy taking time answering these kinds of question, but I'm the kind of person that wishes he didn't have to sleep so he could spend more time working on his own projects, so I don't bother. If you want me to be interested, you'd have to find a way to convince me that I would be working in an environment that feels like I'm working on my own project. I want to work with motivated people that care more about their product than getting funded. I don't want to work in an environment where the number of closed tickets is a metric for productivity.
One of these tricks is that you should fix 'the root of the problem' while a lot of the other tricks are hacks to ship the game on time. I'm a bit confused.
I'm glad that I see this now because I was going to launch a similar service in a month or two here in France. The wireframes are really, really similar.
I use redis a lot to store non critical data. For instance I store signup confirmation tokens in redis. The web app sends a message to RabbitMQ when a user signs up, then a background worker catches that message, creates an activation token, stores it in redis, and sends an email to the user. You can set an expiration time on keys too. It's convenient shared memory.