Is Node.js better?

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1. Is Node.js better? JSConf 2012 Brian Ford @brixen

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3. oneʼs excess is anotherʼs moderation

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6. Rubinius RubySpec

7. Why do I care about Node.js?

8. Organizations tend to perpetuate the problem they were created to

   solve

9. 10 kinds of people: 01. fear change 10. create change

10. sub·ver·sive /səbˈvərsiv/ noun: You

11. contrast is conflict

12. MINASWAN

13. controversy is entertaining

14. shootout fight throw down

15. advocacy is criticism criticism is advocacy

16. Fanboi Troll

17. We suck at conflict

18. How can we improve?

19. benchmarks

20. science

21. Your Creative Power Alex Osborn 1948

22. alone vs group

23. brainstormers debaters free organization

24. Broadway Musicals and the Q factor

25. Groupthink: The Brainstorming Myth Jonah Lehrer New Yorker 30 Jan

    2012
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27. Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    © 2011

28. bacon

29. 23 x 47

30. Programming is a behavioral science

31. Research Methods: the basics Nicholas Walliman Routledge © 2011

32. Validity

33. meta-physics nature of the universe

34. epistemology theory of knowledge

35. people are selfish lazy easily bored

36. scarcity

37. Concurrency

38. every possible interleaving of program instructions

39. P is a program x is a routine P runs

    x x waits P waits

40. concurrency: time state transitions

41. suspend / resume cooperative multitasking

42. time slice pre-emptive multitasking

43. justifications for using Node.js

44. J(X) > J(Y) Xʼ ≡ X Yʼ ≡ Y J(Xʼ)

    > J(Yʼ)

45. same language on client and server

46. there are many Javascript programmers

47. Node.js is more fun

48. Controversy

49. Node.js rejects reality

50. entire ecosystem of tools and libraries must be built

51. Node.js will reproduce last 15 years of Ruby mistakes

52. Passenger Cluster

53. process concurrency is doomed

54. symmetric errors chain of evidence

55. Celluloid https://github.com/celluloid

56. Thank you!