What this article clearly puts on display is "Ignorance". The incidental Ignorance shown by original 'freelance' programmer as far as node.js and the Ignorance shown by marak of what IBM developer works is. It's like calling out PG to remove an article from HN. So as bad as the article was, the title and the blog post is blatant link baiting and an effective hatchet job on IBM. IBM probably doesn't care about node, why should it? Node.js is in no way impacting their bottom line, Node.js isn't even on their radar.
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#12IBM cares about driving technology towards its own products, to thereby improve its own bottom line and shareholder value. It will promote and/or trash even its own product lines based on sales, not technical quality. It is a corporation. Why would you expect anything different?
True. When I used to work at IBM, they gave financial incentives to employees who wrote articles on how to use their products.
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#13What this article clearly puts on display is "Ignorance". The incidental Ignorance shown by original 'freelance' programmer as far as node.js and the Ignorance shown by marak of what IBM developer works is. It's like calling out PG to remove an article from HN. So as bad as the article was, the title and the blog post is blatant link baiting and an effective hatchet job on IBM. IBM probably doesn't care about node, w…
I'm fully aware of how Developer Works operates and that IBM isn't directly responsible for any of the content posted.
With that being said, the clout gained from being posted on IBM.com means a lot to many people who have no idea how Developer Works is run and randomly come across the article from a google search.
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#14Title is misleading. Article he is referring to is in Developer Works, and is written by: "Michael Abernethy, Freelance Programmer, Freelancer" The only thing IBM related is the fact that IBM supports the DeveloperWorks community and pretty much lets anyone post anything there that sounds even remotely decent. It's up to the commenters and others to determine how useful the article is. The OP clearly is new to Develo…
Marak Squires, being slimy and misleading as usual. Nothing to see here, move along.
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#15Actually, if it wasn't for his rebuttal article, I would've had no idea that node could do any of that. As I've asserted many times before, nodejs.org tells me almost nothing about what node.js can do and the community does an equally poor job of educating total newbs about how to use node.js in the real world. 50 different websites all showcasing the same "hello world" tutorial is not education.
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#16What a joke. These same people (nodejitsu) said I/O has been done wrong for 30 years without, themselves, having done the research. http://www.betabeat.com/2011/04/20/nodejitsu-raises-750k-fro... I have also heard Charlie Robbins say you can't build a web framework without threads, in spite of Python having multiple single threaded systems. When challenged, he said, "that's still a thread." Riiiiight... So, back at y…
I'd love to hear where you came up with this one..
'you can't build a web framework without threads, in spite of Python having multiple single threaded systems. When challenged, he said, "that's still a thread."'
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#17Actually, if it wasn't for his rebuttal article, I would've had no idea that node could do any of that. As I've asserted many times before, nodejs.org tells me almost nothing about what node.js can do and the community does an equally poor job of educating total newbs about how to use node.js in the real world. 50 different websites all showcasing the same "hello world" tutorial is not education.
take a peek at http://howtonode.org/ - some stuff is out of date as node is a rapidly evolving platform, but most of it holds true.
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#18Title is misleading. Article he is referring to is in Developer Works, and is written by: "Michael Abernethy, Freelance Programmer, Freelancer" The only thing IBM related is the fact that IBM supports the DeveloperWorks community and pretty much lets anyone post anything there that sounds even remotely decent. It's up to the commenters and others to determine how useful the article is. The OP clearly is new to Develo…
Marak Squires, being slimy and misleading as usual. Nothing to see here, move along.
If you read Marak's article and contrasted it to the original IBM article it would be pretty obvious that its all facts. The original author (no matter how closely relates to IBM he is) clearly didn't put enough time into researching his article. Thing he says are straight up wrong and claiming otherwise is foolish. The title is clearly HNO, but the content is all correct.
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#19Actually this IBM article is a good introduction for mainstream enterprise developers, and the majority of those have no idea what node.js is and never heard of it.
People who have a need in such a solution already know about it, and for the rest it's a niche product that solves a very specific problem for very specific products. Next.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Marak Squires, being slimy and misleading as usual. Nothing to see here, move along.
If you read Marak's article and contrasted it to the original IBM article it would be pretty obvious that its all facts. The original author (no matter how closely relates to IBM he is) clearly didn't put enough time into researching his article. Thing he says are straight up wrong and claiming otherwise is foolish. The title is clearly HNO, but the content is all correct.
https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/commits/v0.3.1
You're a partisan in this matter, I don't think I can take you seriously.