Interesting Links for 15-02-2014

[andrewducker]

• How do I "think in AngularJS" if I have a jQuery background?
  (tags: angular jquery javascript web )
• The Amazing Truth About Saint Valentine!
  (tags: valentines_day )
• Turns out I'm not gay. This amazing quiz was really helpful in helping me figure that out.
  (tags: lgbt quiz funny )
• The French way of cancer treatment
  (tags: cancer healthcare france )

Comments

[lil_shepherd]

On the gay sex quiz I got "Traditional labels are meaningless" which about sums it up!

[cairmen]

THanks - the Angular piece is really useful.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I found that completely rewriting my UI from scratch, rather than trying to fit the two styles together, made a massive difference. Everything got a lot simpler, and all of my JS is in nice contained chunks that don't ever touch the DOM.

[artkouros]

Turns out I'm "very gay".

[andrewducker]

See,it's useful to know these things! Without the quiz you could accidentally sleep with a woman!

[artkouros]

Or, be married to one for 12 years.

[andrewducker]

I'm beginning to think that we should have got this quiz to you earlier.

I blame the internet for not being invented sooner.

[iainjcoleman]

The people commenting on the MP piece seem to be in a competition to see who can most thoroughly prove the author right.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. The idiot brigade out in force, as usual.

[rhythmaning]

That post on French healthcare is fascinating.

I wonder where the NHS fits in between the French and the US system?

But basically, the US system really does sound broken - as bad as the NHS but much more expensive, I'd say!

[andrewducker]

I didn't realise the NHS was something that something could be as bad as.

I thought that it was pretty good:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8877412/NHS-among-best-health-care-systems-in-the-world.html

[rhythmaning]

"As bad as" is relative! I love the NHS - but it does have its problems, from which, according to that post, the French system doesn't suffer.

The NHS can seem as uncaring as the description of the U.S. system. The French system sounds very personal, in ways I find it hard to imagine the NHS emulating.

This may of course be wrong!

Your description of the treatment Julie received this week in Glasgow sounded rather impressive.

[rhythmaning]

That Telegraph article is interesting, though the sample seems quite small.

I do feel inordinately lucky to have the NHS, and I think more to in Scotland than London.