Is Node.js better?

How do we resolve the question, "is this better than that?" This talk discusses ideas for improving how we handle conflict in the programming community through the lens of evaluating whether Node.js is better than other technologies like Ruby.

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1. Is Node.js better? JSConf 2012 Brian Ford @brixen
3. oneʼs excess is anotherʼs moderation
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
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!