What is wrong with Full Stack Development

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What is full-stack development

The predominant web application development model today requires splitting application logic in two parts:

  • The front-end, running on the browser.
  • The back-end, running on the server.

The front-end is typically written in JavaScript, while the back-end is typically written in Java, Scala, C#, or some other programming language. The two ends invariably communicate with each other via REST. The choice of JavaScript and REST is not due to any technical merit inherent in these technologies, (there is none,) but purely due to historical accident; see The Wild, Wild Web.

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Douglas Crockford talking nonsense

Here is Douglas Crockford,

talking patent nonsense about Java and about exceptions,

neither of which he understands, obviously.

Start playing at 27':42''. The insanity lasts until 32':00''.

Enjoy responsibly.

Tablecloth

A high-tech, sci-fi horror short-story written on the evening of January 25, 2018.

There was a guy who got in a quarrel with his girlfriend, and she kicked him out of her apartment without even throwing his clothes out the window for him. So there he was, naked on the street, not knowing what to do. Out of necessity, he grabbed a tablecloth from a restaurant, draped himself with it, and started to go home, trying to look as if everything was normal and under control.

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Disabling the Group Policy Client Service in Windows

Scenario:

  • You are an administrator on your machine.
  • Your machine is either:
    • In a Windows Domain, and you don't want the domain admins messing with it.
    • Not in a Windows Domain, and you just don't want useless services running.

In this case, what you probably want to do is prevent the Group Policy Client Service from running on your machine. Unfortunately, that's not a straightforward task to accomplish, because if you go to "services" and try to stop or disable this service, Windows doesn't let you.

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