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Outsourcing the back end of an app might seem like a good idea but unfortunately that is the part you really don't want to mess up on. So unless you have unit tests and are working with someone who really knows what they are doing you can run into this kind of situation. I worked last Summer cleaning up code for a friend who outsourced his webapp development to an Indian company. Most of what I did was coming out functionality because it was broken and incomplete. At least the site ended up in a working state but without a lot of what he had paid for and though was working.

Yeah I found school to be helpful in terms of learning programming. Even though I knew a lot already, it helped me by forcing me to write sorts and other simple algorithms that are usually available for free. Congrats on taking the next steps towards advancing your knowledge.

@siksik do you have a degree in anthropology ? I have basically finished my CS degree and only need to take a few courses to get an anthropology degree as well.

@marjanovicsteva RMS of FSF once named a microkernel after his girlfriend.

I usually stick with LTS these days, Ubuntu upgrades have seldom brought anything beyond incremental changes these last few years. 17.10 and the switch to Gnome should be exciting but I think I'm going to give Pop!_os by System76 a shot since I have one of their laptops and they will mainly be working on improving the Gnome theming and desktop support.

The fun part is running into someone else's code that they have abandoned and trying to figure out what they were thinking when they wrote that code. This is where a degree in anthropology could come in handy.

@areontar How did you convince them to switch ?

Messenger just exists to harvest the address book of users so that Facebook can devour all.

And they could provide you with a laptop that has a screen that is perfectly readable in daylight like the OLPC (one laptop per child).

You need to teach your dad how to use email or else the whole world will end up receiving pictures. Don't take the money, as that just creates a corrupt relationship and try to talk to your dad about proper cyber-etiqutte and whomever he is sending his pictures to is probably just a spammer trying to blackmail him anyways. People do stupid things.

You should probably just roll your own JavaScript framework from scratch so everyone knows how cool you are. Just kidding. If you are able to get it done with jQuery use it. Forget about the latest newest framework unless it is needed. If you want to learn Angular 2 do it on the side and then switch to it. Otherwise learning on the job will slow progress and it sounds like you are the only coder. There are pros and cons to that situation.

This reminds me of the first time I set up Apache server and I kept wondering why I was getting a 403 or 500 error and then finally realized my permissions were off for the /var/www directory. Simple chmod and it was solved. Of course I had no idea how to do this when I started and searching on the internet mainly lead to archives of listserves but the same methodology works. Look at logs, find errors, search for errors and then try to figure out if someone else had fixed that sort of problem already. It seems like you are stuck at the white screen of empty that happens before you find the errors. Find the logs or create the errors that show you what isn't working. Also double check your syntax, I always find I am missing some random character when these types of no error errors occur.

Back in the day every web app was written as a cgi-script mostly with perl and form processing. Not that I wrote any but I remember the net before php and coldfusion existed.