silentpost

spoiler alert, COBOL and Assembly are used for major financial systems that you use every day (no snark intended). I live in a city that headquarters one of the largest credit card processing companies around (they use Assembler), a large insurance company (they use COBOL), and a too-big-to-fail bank (they use COBOL).

The CS school within the state school in this city is sponsored by one of those companies, and they still teach (2018!) COBOL as a course req--obviously as a way to train up talent--but the fact that it's still taught today boggles the mind for me as a web developer learning something-newJS every week.

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I think an admin approval would be a nightmare in terms of scalability. Why not crowdsource the approval system, with some sort of voting feature for user-submitted exercises?

check out myfitnesspal; they have user-submitted recipes. the recipes can either be private, or public with user-submitted confirmation on the ingredients/accuracy.

I saw this the last time it was (briefly) posted here. A couple of things I noticed:

* It'd be nice to have some sort of search feature for adding activities (incremental search or otherwise)

* On a similar note: if you don't see the exercise you're looking for on the exercise database, it'd be nice to be able to add the exercise from the same modal.

* it seems like there are a lot of missing workouts for strength. I know it's not easy to find a centralized database for exercise listings, but common things like 'squats' shouldn't be too hard to add in.

Definitely would like to see some sort of FitBit/Withings/Myfitnesspal/LoseIt! integration. It'd also be lovely to have charts documenting progress, and an ability to export to csv.

I think once the mobile apps come, this could be fantastic--I always have my phone at the gym for music, but will occasionally forget to bring a journal for tracking.