That was a really interesting article. I've been praised for my knowledge but was always a slacker in school. It seems that praising effort has a great impact on motivation.
I agree. He rambles incoherently and it's hard read his writing with much flow. He even said how mopey he was so the story felt mopey to read, not necessarily appropriate for a play by play of a man's botched trip to London.
Seems like the JavaScript has become the glue to hold everything together now. I took a look at TodoMVC and I was a bit frustrated. I don't believe MVC has to be this cumbersome. Chaining callbacks, spaghetti inheritance; certainly better than a Jquery DOM mess but I wish there was something a little more straight forward.
I visited the new Microsoft store in Boston recently and felt that the experience was on par with my expectations.
On three separate occasions the Windows 8 tablet and the POS systems froze. The employees were as confused as I was when demonstrating the device. Everything was made of metal colored plastic. The Windows Phone challenge was very rude and condescending.
I'm a full time Ubuntu user and use Thinkpads so I reasonably expected a solid build quality. I was left with a sour taste after I left the store. I felt like Microsoft was fine with cloning the Apple store and then putting down users who did not use latest and greatest Windows toaster.
"Ah, no wonder it didn't work!"
Then draw out an IDE around the code with a big [Compile] button.
Maybe even Clippy in the corner of the whiteboard. "It looks like you're trying to get a job..."