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Interviews are a thing, no one is hiring people based on self reported claims

> Also, I have ADHD. This is probably relevant, but I haven't quite figured out how.

Yeah, ditto but having been through these ruts many times in the past I can offer some advice

ADHD makes you incapable of settling into easy

You have work to do but it's easy. You have a side project but you've figured out the hard parts and so it's just the implementation grind, which is easy.

Find a challenge

switch your side project to a whole new tech stack. find a new job that you're not quite qualified for. take on job responsibilities at your job that you don't know how to do. mentor someone.

I also find going to meetups and conferences gets the spark back sometimes

The fact that it most people think it's a well-defined operation is what makes it a useful question. A total newbie who doesn't know how to code will fumble. A junior engineer will get to the simple solution. A senior engineer will ask you to define it better. Etc... It's an effective tool for determining level because there isn't a limit on how much depth you can go into about it.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history.rss and https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history.json work as well.

It's pull rather than push, but you can use the public API to get notified of incidents: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/api/v2

This was a long time coming. I remember some MS folks talking to Ryan Dahl about doing this back at nodeconf 2011.

What was the inspiration to create yet another compile to JS language?

The DOM is to slow on mobile issue is what spawned http://famo.us/. They go beyond virtual DOM by creating their own layout engine that then outputs to optimized DOM (or canvas/WebGL).

The typing notation of TypeScript is on it's way to becoming part of Javascript. See http://www.2ality.com/2014/10/typed-javascript.html

Going forward does not mean abandoning Javascript, just abandoning ES5

They left out the most obvious reason for them to switch. Their business is based on docker, coreOS etc . . . aka the Go ecosystem. In that context developing Go expertise just makes business sense regardless of technical merits.

Me, I'm a Node.js guy, but that's in part because of my long history with JavaScript. I don't think I've ever been tempted to write anything in Dart, though there are some things I've written that would have been better to be written in GO (for deployment and memory use reasons). It really depends on your constraints, just like any other design decision.

What are your constraints? I suspect they're mostly around the availability of code and availability of learning resources.

You can build the same quality of web app in any of the above. The question is how much you'll have to fight against the platform's pain points.

Will you be CPU bound? Will you be memory bound? IO bound? Will you need to scale? it what way? What libraries, frameworks, modules etc . . . will you need? Will your app be isomorphic? Where will you host?

And if you don't have many answers just go with what you're most familiar with.

The full blown node running on the JVM is called http://vertx.io/

I know going home sucks. but I've been there, and my advice is to withdraw from your college, go home and maybe take some classes at your local junior college. your health is more important than a degree. and in time you'll either get a degree or get enough experience that it doesn't matter anymore.

It really depends on your application. Each language, platform and framework has a niche. Depending on what you're doing none of the above might even be the answer. You might be better served a serverless solution like firebase.

There is no shame in having a failed startup. There is no shame in being between things. You just need to get out and talk to people. Let inspiration find you.

Docker is a useful tool that solves problems you likely don't have yet. It wouldn't hurt to learn docker, but I'd say don't worry about it.

Very nice, I like how easy the signup flow is.

Among my favorites is http://eloquentjavascript.net/, which is a bit dated but still worth going through. The second edition is a work in progress which current to 2014 and could use your feedback since you're the target audience http://eloquentjavascript.net/2nd_edition/preview/

Unless you really need the money, it's always best to find the position where you will grow more. What skills will you pick up at the consulting firm? What skills will you pick up at the startup?

You can learn you some node with nodeschool http://nodeschool.io/

I'd be game

Skype but properly peer-to-peer was pretty much the theme of realtime conf this year take a look at this video: http://vimeo.com/77289728 They demo a federated video chat.

I'm reminded more about their actual reality show that ended with a job http://penny-arcade.com/strip-search/

It's Penny Arcade, he's concerned with getting too many applicants, not too few.

They all solve slightly different problems, we use both bower and browserify

news. YCOMBINATOR .com

yc startups have always been able to post here like that.

One I've found useful: http://markup.io/

I think that even if [deck drop instance] is clearer than [dockerfile image container] it would be better to use [dockerfile image container] it's the standard set forth from docker, sticking to the standard makes interoperating easier for everyone.