Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech

A Q&A session on web servers turns existential.

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[xual235]

I work for a bank now who want to move from MSSQL to NOSQL. I love using mongo appropriately but dam it I had to explain to them that their data IS relational. It really is better off where it is. The answer I got. . . We'll have more space in a datastore.

Thats it I'm out of here

[GhostFreeman]

"I could have sworn you just said Lisp"

[Benjamin Gruenbaum]

I'm a nodejs developer and I love this video :)

[partack1]

LOL!!

[Marcus McKinnon]

Would you consider that the "flaw" that prohibits us from implementing a system like communism effectively are the "benefits" that helped us to survive and make it to this point in human evolution?

[oboforty]

inb4 wild online argument about religions and ideologies

[BladeOfLight16]

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary." What's wrong with communism is that it makes the assumption that humans are capable of reaching such a point because they are merely products of their environment. I would strongly disagree and argue that humans are fundamentally flawed. Marx was certainly wrong in just about every prediction he made based on that assumption.

[BladeOfLight16]

While I would say "minimal waste" instead of "no waste", your argument totally ignores the fact that the modern economy is Keynesian, which has more in common with socialism. The reason why companies horde profit is because government regulation makes costs impossibly high for anyone honest enough to comply, so the douchebags who don't care win. The last president to actually do anything capitalistic was Coolidge during the roaring 20s, and the crash came when Hoover started undoing his work.

[zantrua Lobo]

Why is profit bad? Do you think that that profit doesn't get used for other things? People buy things with their profit, or they invest it in other companies. Employee work is worth what the market will bare. Adding computers to the work place has made goods cheaper and created additional jobs that suck less. I'd much rather program a computer to put bolts in wheels than turn a ratchet all day.

[muneebamemon]

"You may recall sequential code. It's code that you can read."

[otakucode]

Hehe, this video made me realize - node.js is absolutely perfect for the web. It makes all the same mistakes. Sure we could have said 'we want multiplatform networked applications and an infrastructure to run them on', but instead we said 'hey, this thing for presenting static hyperlinked documents could be perverted and applications shoehorned in even though every single decision made in the development of its protocol and language was not made with apps in mind!'

[otakucode]

>Allowing a market to determine consumption ensures no waste and promotes improvement of technology.

If that were true then average salaries would not be flat since 1980 and companies would not be posting multi-billion-dollar profits. That profit is inefficiency. It is a direct proof that the market is incapable of assigning appropriate value to the work of employees. Every iota of productivity brought about by computers in the workplace has been withheld from those who become more productive