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Very nice! Even those of us who don't consider ourselves "budding" have plenty to learn here.

This! 100% this. I loved phases 1-4. Then 5 hit and horror show. I realized quickly that I was building kludgy extraction routines to get the reports/metrics I needed. Once the horrible process became unmanageable I would have gladly paid the longer development/iteration time on phases 1-4 in order to have a robust and resilient system which allows proper reporting.

Would love to read more about this. A cursory search didn't reveal anything obvious, can you point me in a direction to read more?

Thanks for a great write up! Looks like you covered the topic fairly and objectively. Coming from the Java/.Net world where framework stability and documentation have always been a priority the items covered in this piece have always the biggest hurdle for me in moving to javascript based frameworks/environments.

Looks like React Native continues this tradition.

Great advice! Exactly what I'm doing as we speak after reading this. I'm such a cheerleader for Google but after hearing about this a few times its starting to scare the crap out of me. F that. Not a good idea to let a multi-national entity control my access to EVERYTHING with zero customer service options.

This! I recently decided to try out Bing purely to see if comparing the results of both engines resulted in disparities like I had seen in the past. I was presently surprised to see that Bing results were pretty much on par with Google in my most common type of searches. The rewards program was a nice little bonus on top of it and decided to give them a try. The results are good quality. It isn't as fast as Google but not slow enough to halt my experiment.

Mostly, I like the competition idea. If using Bing for a while keeps Google on their toes and helps improve Bing as well, then I think its a win, win, win.

Purely for academic reasons of course, why is Bing better suited for this purpose?

Can you explain this one please?

This was my initial thought as well but I remembered listening to this podcast and I think it touches on this idea and expands on it. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/07/22/487069271/episo...

One of the examples in the podcast expands on the viewpoint that computers are for men and that idea is ingrained even to the level of the family, so computers are kept in the sons bedroom so incidentally the daughter had less access to it.

Its not suggested by guidance counselors to females when looking to select electives in junior high school.

So if they are seen as a male hobby or interest, at a time when what your peers think is so important, girls are less likely to want to venture into that area and be outside the norm.

Come on. I've never heard (no one has) the phrase, "don't eat lettuce". I've heard don't eat processed carbs, don't eat bread, don't eat pasta, don't eat simple sugars, don't eat potatoes.

This is pretty wrong. Take a look:

http://www.precisionnutrition.com/regular-vs-sweet-potatoes

I've worked so far away from the metal for such a long time but I still find these types of articles so interesting even though I only understand a small fraction of the info. Its amazing to think the levels of abstraction which are in place from the code at this level which make my work possible.

100% agree but they have to be careful with the idea that "It's smart to invest in what sells right now... "!

The story is so reminiscent of Kodak. Huge 'titanic' of a ship that saw the writing on the wall, actually released digital cameras but the bulk of their infrastructure, employees and expenditures were in traditional film cameras. Once the industry fully shifted they still couldn't change course and died a slow agonizing death as taking pictures became a commodity that came 'free' with your cellphone.

Great question. This is a cause for concern for me as well.

Great start! Looks good works well. Can't wait to see more.

Nope. Anybody who has lost weight can confirm eating less results in fat (and some muscle) loss.

I agree with you! This is how I found VueJS when someone made a similar, tangentially related post which was essentially, "Yea but I like VueJS much better for reason x". It exposed me to something I didn't know about.

I would love to see those!

THIS!

Great work! I like Material but this looks super slick and it feels like the documentation is more understandable. The design is really clean. I will consider this heavily when we upgrade our current ng1 app. Well done.

"Nonsense", to the other responses to your question, the 5X camera (along with the 6P) is outstanding! I consistently "out-shoot" friends with the iPhone in side by side photo situations. This usually involves low light so I can't speak to other scenarios. My 5x camera is one the reasons I love the phone, among quite a few others.