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at the Fluent Conference, this is SiliconANGLE's theCUBE, our flagship program, we've got the events that's coming from the noise, and Riley Media is really putting on a great event here for developers, really looking for the next big thing, how to take JavaScript, take it to the next level, full stack, protocol standards, community new tooling, a lot of amazing stuff, so if you're a developer out there, watch the feed, and connect to this community, it's a great event. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE, I'm joined with Jeff Frick from SiliconANGLE, and we're co-hosting here at the Fluent Conference, we're at Brandon Satrim, who's a program manager for Lead Cross Platform Tools and Services, Teller Rick, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, thank you very much, thanks for having me. So, obviously JavaScript is very relevant, it's not going anywhere, it's going to the moon and back, as I say to my kids, it's really big, but there's baggage with JavaScript, and there's opportunities with JavaScript, so it's been around for a while, there's all kinds of issues, developers know firsthand pain points around multiple browsers, and things are moving very, very fast, and it's really scaling from just scripting to full-stack protocol support, obviously REST APIs are amazing at Advent to accelerate that, but it's evolving really fast into a whole other dimension. So, first comment I want to get from you is your view on that, I mean, the view of the Fluent Conference for the developers that aren't here, what's some of the conversations, and how do you see JavaScript and other technologies evolving and some of the dynamics around that? You know the beauty of a conference like this is it's proof of the ubiquity of this platform, and ubiquity has always been a key word for me for web development, because it is, it's the only platform that all you really need to get in and get going is a text editor and a browser, you've got everything you need to know to start coding for this platform, even if it's just inside the desktop, and a lot of people get their start because of how easy it is to get into this world, into this platform, into the front end, and seeing the level of excitement and activity, talking to people about what they're working on, great improvements in front end development tooling, in the kinds of libraries that people are building, based on JavaScript, the kind of tools that people are working on, it's just really exciting stuff, being on the expo hall and seeing what some of the other sponsors are doing and the things that they're talking about, it's been exciting to see, not just that people have continued to flock to this platform, but that it is standing the test of time, it continues to be the place where people go, by and large, to build their businesses, to have a product, to form communities, it's just, the web has continued to. I mean, it's easy to work with. I mean, one of the attributes of JavaScript was easier, yeah, put the browser stuff aside, stuff in the butt, internet explorer, we all know the issues there, but Chrome and Google's here, and they're talking about some of the things that they're doing, it's really evolving into a solid software engineering environment where developers are cutting their teeth into some new things, so there are some tooling issues, there are some new things coming out, what are you seeing? What are some of the conversations like here in the keynotes and the hallways? I think tooling is one of those things that's very interesting, I'm seeing a lot of people very interested in, they're on this platform, a lot of them are making the move to mobile because it's the undeniable place to be right now, even on the web, you either are building hybrid apps or you're building native apps, but you're paying attention to that mobile landscape, and in mobile specifically, the two biggest things that people talk about at this conference anywhere that I go is the tooling story, but also the performance story, and those kind of go hand in hand because you can build tooling for better performance, but you can also, a lot of developers just want, they want those bootstraps, they want easy starter projects, they want good tools that help them get, to get running, to hit the ground running, to target as many devices as possible, and they're really looking for options, but they're also looking for opportunities to be a part of communities and contribute to communities as well, and so I'm seeing a lot of that kind of conversation in the hallways and sessions as well. So Brandon, talk a little bit about, before you came on there, we were talking about the nightmare of some people that are still standardized on IE5, and you know that's a thing to develop for, but now with mobile and the multiple platforms, and then you got the standardized thing on iOS, but then I've got the explosion of Android, and now the Netscape phone, and all this interesting stuff, is it getting harder or easier, and how is mobile changing your development paradigm, not so much for writing your first application, but for QA and test and roll out and upgrades and updates and all that type of thing, it seems like there's an explosion of quote unquote web platforms, if you will. Absolutely, with a lot of companies, if they make the decision to go mobile, their first choice is, do we have the time and resources and teams to go native on all of those, and if they make the choice to go native, they're talking about having a development team for iOS, a development team for Android, a development team for Windows, Phone, Blackberry, but there's even more now, there's Firefox OS, there's Tizer, Xpada, right. You're going to be a side of those guys. But that continues to propagate, more platforms mean more issues on the native side, but even on the mobile side, you then have the issue of, okay, so we're not going to go native, let's go ahead and just target the mobile web, or let's build a hybrid app. You tend to have similar issues, because now you're dealing with, maybe cross browser consistencies between inconsistencies, between what Safari on iOS gives you versus the stock Android browser on an Android 2x device, versus Chrome for Android on an Android 4 device. And so this is, I think, where tooling comes back in and makes a place, because a lot of developers, when they make that choice to go hybrid, what they're saying is time to market matters to us. The ability to get the broadest reach to get in the hands of as many people as possible with our product or with our app, really, really matters, and we want to use web technologies to do so, because we have the skills to do that. And so when they're faced with, they make that choice, and yet now they have to deal with these cross browser inconsistencies, it's kind of like the way web development was in the mid-90s. There's still a couple guys on IE 5. Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, and I've been to cities where I've asked that question of who's supporting what version of IE, and where hands come up for IE 5 and IE 5.5, things like that. Brandon, I want to ask you about some of the things that we've heard in the hallways, and Jeff and I were talking prior to coming on, about some of the challenges around DevOps, and then we've got the physical internet of things, the industrial internet we had Brady Forrest on yesterday, he's got a whole investment thesis around that software for devices, whether it's Nest, like a thermostat, or other cool things, and also he's involved in Maker Faire, so yeah, he's got a great job. But there's always the trade off between creativity for a developer and efficiency of coding, and you hear that all the time. Hey, I wrote such great code, but I wasn't really creative, or I'm really creative, didn't write great code. So you mentioned bootstrap, so how do you see that challenge evolving? Because JavaScript is easy, there's some toolings that you can do available out there, so how do you see that in the developer community here at Fluent, this community, around that balance of creativity versus efficient coding? Is it more advent of more open source? Is it more modules, new products? How do you see that evolving? Is that important to balance that? Absolutely, and I think as the community, and I've been in the web community as a developer in another role for the past 15 years, and what I've seen over that time is a lot of broad maturity and growth in the way that we, not only treat JavaScript as the language of the web, but the way that we handle our own practices and our own disciplines around testing, around creating modular code, around evaluating libraries, and bringing up libraries like Backbone and Knockout and MVVM and MVC libraries and things like this that allow developers and easy entree into the platform, but it also gives them some of that boilerplate so that they're really focusing on building a value. They're not doing all the boilerplate, all of the repetitive tasks that you have to do from one app to the next so that they're really just focused on what's the value in the app that I'm building. And I'm seeing as more and more people come into the community, more and more people say, I wanna automate this repetitive task. I wanna build a library that allows a developer to do this, to jump in quickly and to focus on delivering value instead of focusing on the same boilerplate every single time. I think that's one of the biggest things is eliminating boilerplate, being very ruthless about testing and about raising the bar for discipline. I've seen that a lot in the JavaScript world, and I think one of the reasons why that's been so popular over the last couple of years is because you have people from a lot of other communities coming into the front end world. We have former Ruby developers, former .NET developers, or even current people in these communities, but as they're turning their focus and attention more to the front end, they're bringing the practices and disciplines from those worlds, from those stacks, and applying those to the code that they're writing on the front end as well, not just in desktop apps, but in mobile, in mobile hybrid apps. What are the top environments you're seeing here that's getting a lot more lift with this new era of the more server side, more real time, streaming has been a big thing. We didn't, one of the complaints is, you're not hearing a lot about web sockets, but managing things like that, all this new headroom is around that's developer community. Obviously, you got .NET, you mentioned Ruby. Any other environments? A lot of folks at Java at PHP as well, I mean, those are always really popular communities that as they continue, even as those communities continue to mature, more and more people are realizing how much is possible on the front end. How much you can deliver great performance in the browser with an app that doesn't post back to the server every time a user clicks a button, it clicks a link. So all of those communities are really in droves coming into the front end and adopting it. You know, I've been in the web space, got back to the original web 1.0 in the 90s, and it's funny how JavaScript had hit the scene, it was really explosive because it was just so easy to work with and the demand for web apps and websites, et cetera, was evolving, rich media, all that good stuff. But it became to a point where there was some kind of delusion to the brand of the developers that were building JavaScript and the old joke was go to the yellow pages if you can get a web developer, right? And I know JavaScript, I studied it in school, I banged out a couple of pixels on one browser. So there's been, that's not negative, it's just kind of the market lift, it's just been overall developer. So there's, you have kind of like pockets of IQ, I call it, and so you're seeing here the evolution of real software development, as you mentioned, QA. Where is this going in terms of growth around the profile of developers? Obviously, you know, more stacks, different stacks, more tooling, API has been a godsend for developers in the sense of in with DevOps, et cetera, with cloud. So share with us your perspective of how it's evolved from kitty scripters to now real time real chops, you know? I've lived that, and that's what- There's nothing wrong with that, I mean, hey, bang out some websites, people got started, but the addiction of development, really software engineering practices being more agile, being more QA, can you share some color? That's an amazing trend that I've observed a lot, and I've given, I've talked about this in other talks before, the way that the web has evolved and the way that developers have come along for the ride, and our perception of JavaScript as a result over the last 15, over the last 17 years now, the language is 17 years old, that we have, when things first started, you know, I first started doing development, I was doing ASP Classic development, using Microsoft ASP 3 and SQL Server and simple websites for a consulting company based in Houston, and JavaScript was, it was about writing as little JavaScript as possible to get to the back end, right? To get to the server side code piece, that's where the real development took place, and you had, your stack was very little client, very large server and database, right? And then what happened around the web 2.0 time when Jesse James Garrett coined the term Ajax, what he was observing was that the client was growing and the server was shrinking a little bit, and we started to see people realized, hey, this is all this Ajax stuff is exciting, oh, and I have to use JavaScript to do it, so maybe this isn't such a bad language after all, and people at that point started adopting frameworks like jQuery and Dojo in droves in dealing with some of those cross-browser inconsistencies and recognizing that really the issue that we had with JavaScript many years ago was never the language itself by and large, but it was really the way that the DOM was implemented in one browser and implemented differently in another browser, and those pain points caused us to really deride the language and it wasn't fair. And so we learned during that time that with the increased power and responsibility that you had that you could do some really exciting things, and what we've seen over the last 10 years, all right, seven or eight years from the web 2.0, you know, the declaration of that movement now is that the client has continued to grow, the server has continued to shrink. And I.O. is more important now, right? I.O. is much more important now, and you see in JavaScript now has made a leap from the client to the server with Node, and in a lot of cases has made a leap into the database, like MongoDB, which effectively use JavaScript object notation as your query language into the database itself. So now you have this world where JavaScript, this not that recently derided language, is on the entire stack. And that's an important trend to point out. I mean, the infiltration, as I call it, is really just growth. Absolutely. And with Node, I think when we had the Node Summit two years ago, the first Node Summit in San Francisco, we did the cube there. We talked to a lot of the guys from Node Jitsu and they said, hey, you know what, people want to write mobile apps and they need to talk to the server in a new way, new protocol, new kind of concept. So that headroom's natural. Is there any other areas that you see as headroom that's still unexplored or just kicking the tires or just scratching the surface? I think the biggest is mobile web performance and tooling around that as well. As I think that's sort of the big uncharted territory right now is providing tooling, but also providing hybrid mobile apps that really do feel as close to native as possible. I think that in some cases, there's always a case, there's always a time where native is going to be the best choice. A lot of gaming scenarios native is a fantastic choice for building apps. But HTML5 and its peers, CSS and JavaScript are, I think, perfectly suited to solve, to deliver a lot of hybrid mobile apps in this space. And it doesn't just have to be forms over data or a line of business type apps. I think there's tons of scenarios where you can build a hybrid app. Let's get into that because I think we have, there's a lot of different religions around mobile apps and we've seen some scar tissue, I mean Facebook with their abandonment of HTML5 where that's not their official statement but they've said some things, but you've got native, there's some use cases where you want to go pure native, your whole company's built on it. And then you've got hybrid, then you've got what I call prepackage where they're in a type apps and development environments like an app accelerator where it could be an enterprise wants to throw out an accounting app and they just need to whip up something, right? Or whatever, some sort of a framework. On those use cases, native hybrid prepackage for the lack of a better description, what are the different use cases that you see for those? I mean, why would someone want to do native? What does hybrid look like? What are the use cases for hybrid? And when do I get the turnkey? You know, just I need a framework blow out some apps. Right. I think native, a lot of times it comes through the context there as a company that has the wherewithal, you know, the time, the resources, the money, like in Facebook's case, to have separate native teams, right? There's nothing that's stopping them from doing it because they have a lot more revenue than the rest of us have. Most companies don't have that luxury to spin up three, four different native development teams. And so they have the ability to do that and they also wanted to build a very highly customized experience. I mean, the things that Facebook has been able to do with their apps since they did move back to native have been very interesting. They've done some things that are actually still quite possible with HTML5, but the skill set of that team didn't map very well to hybrid. So I think that they've done better going to native because it matched the skill set of their team and they had the resources to do so. But in a lot of cases, a lot of companies are trying to get to market. You know, what they really want to have is I've talked to folks in the sandbox here and other attendees and what they're really trying to do is they're trying to reach as many devices and as many customers across those devices as quickly as possible. So sometimes the hybrid might be more, okay, I got to integrate into a custom backend. I got some data protection issues or even enterprises we hear they want this emission critical apps that might be native or hey, I have some, I don't want to rewrite code, just put a wrapper around this other app and throw it out there. Right, right, absolutely. So that's kind of what you're saying. And I think that's a good use case for that. Yeah, yeah, I think so, definitely. And you know, on the framework side of things, when it comes to, you know, having industry vertical bootstrap apps and things like that, I think there's definitely a case where that works, that works very well in the hybrid space as well. You know, a realty company, right? And you're just, you want to get your realty app online, you want to get there quickly. This is one of the ways that you can do it. So there's some comments on Twitter I want to get your perspective on. You know, none of us Twitter is Twitter. So there's a guy out there named Harold Neal, we don't know. Harold, shout out to you, if you actually watched this or probably not watching, your friends watching, tell Harold, we use this, Twitter handles Meta Creek at Meta Creek. He wrote lots of jQuery hate at Fluent Conference. Make sure you put the hashtag on there. Not sure what he means by that. I mean, jQuery is also being discussed in the hallways here. What does he mean by that? And you got another, Sean Kester from skfox.com, skfox is his handle. You know, he says good stuff from Red Bull's plug for those guys on what's next for jQuery mobile. Better Flexibles always welcome, looking forward to blah, blah, blah.  Is there challenges going on? What does that mean by that? I think jQuery, because of its history, I mean, is the most popular, the most widely used JavaScript framework in the history of the platform. So because of that popularity, there's going to be some derision sent its way. And because of its age, it also has gone through some growing pains, right? It's a middle-aged framework. So there's some aches and pains and aspects of that framework that they've struggled with dealing with. But at the same time, jQuery has done a fantastic job of managing moving the web forward in terms of dropping IE678 support. And so they now have an option where you can get a much smaller jQuery because a lot of the cross-browser stuff that they had to do for IE678 has been removed from the library. So you can still support those browsers, you can still get a version of jQuery that leverages that if you want, but you can also get a smaller version as well. And they've done a good job of really managing the growth of that library and responding to where things are going in the industry. But I think some of the derision there as well comes from the fact that because jQuery's been around for so long, because it's so popular, because it's so widely used, there are aspects of that API that are inconsistent. There are aspects that sometimes are difficult to use. And like any large popular library, people notice these things and form a negative opinion of them. Stuff breaks. Stuff breaks, absolutely. And I did the talk yesterday morning and actually used jQuery as an example of good API design and bad API design in the same way. Well, this is the classic struggle in a growth market. So you get JavaScript and jQuery, both have legacy and history that are positive. And then the growing pains are, we're modernizing a new era. So there's some things that need to be tweaked. So getting people to cobble together standards is probably a lot of arguments. There's probably a lot of contention. I love this feature, but you have to look at the bigger picture. Right, right, right. And I think as, jQuery is one of the first. And when jQuery came around, there were a handful of JavaScript based libraries. Now we have thousands of JavaScript based libraries. I think I saw from Ignite Fluent there that one of the speakers made the comment about how there are five new JavaScript libraries released every day. Five brand new open source JavaScript libraries every day. And they're not all gonna be good. But as there are more of those out in the wild, people are learning better practices. They're learning different ways of doing things. And they're taking an eye back to jQuery, sort of the old man in the room when it comes to JavaScript libraries and saying, wow, some people think it hasn't aged quite that well. But in many cases it has. And they have a very active team and a vibrant community and a great foundation. They continue to do amazing work. Tell us about your company, Telerick. Let's put a plug in for what you guys are doing. What is the company? What are you guys up to and your role there? So Telerick is a developer tools vendor. We've been around for about 10 years. Most of our history we have built tools for developers on the Microsoft stack. So everything from ASP.net Ajax controls to Windows phone controls to Silverlight controls. And the team that I work on is our cross-platform tools and services division. And I work as the program management lead for that division. And there's a couple of different products that are really our key pieces of what we have inside of there. And one is Kendall UI, which is a framework for building rich web and hybrid mobile applications with HTML, JavaScript and CSS. And another product is Isinium. And Isinium is actually a cloud-based IDE for building hybrid apps for iOS and Android. And it's both a native desktop app on Windows, but also a browser-based IDE on all of the other platforms. And you can actually build your app using either Kendall UI mobile or jQuery mobile and then test your app in the browser, test your app on the device. And then we provide all of the packaging to actually package up your app for iOS and Android and deploy it into the app store. So one of the great advantages if you're a Windows user, you can actually build iOS apps without having to buy a Mac all the way to deployment into the app store. So I gotta ask you about, I'll see a topic that's always delicate with front-end guys because it's really, and more of an issue on the enterprise side, and that's security, right? So content security policy is really important. John Berghoff just tweeted 30 seconds ago, it's the only security session at fluent conference on content security. Not many people are here. Bluehost cares about security. Obviously, probably worse for Bluehost, but security is an issue, right? I mean, how does that factor in? Is that kind of down the road? Is it a do-over? I mean, how do you look at that piece? It's not really on the radar. So, oh, that's a great question. And actually, in terms of content security policy, one of my teammates is doing a talk on Chrome packaged apps in about 20 minutes, and he will talk about content security policy. And CSP is definitely one of those content, is named for Collins. Yeah, and he'll be actually doing a talk right here in Continental Ballroom before. Well, we should get him on, Todd, on theCUBE. Yeah, yeah, definitely interesting to have him talk. Well, there's a big issue, right? It's one of those things where it's like, you have to address it to kind of check the box, but there's philosophy involved, right? You have a lot of IO going on to the server side. That's where the data is. Absolutely, and we get that. I mean, that comes in, if you're using KendoUI Mobile to build an app and you're targeting the browsers, obviously you have the same security considerations that you do for building any other kind of web app. But you have a similar consideration if you're packaging that up with Cordova and submitting it into the app stores. And it's really a matter of, as a DevTools company, one of the things that we pay a lot of attention to is anything that we can do to make that tooling story, especially on mobile, better for a developer to worry. It is turnkey out of the box. They don't have to worry about those types of things. We want to build it in the platform. We're going to build it in the framework. And there's things around security that we have upcoming, things that we're working on, kind of behind the scenes. But by and large, that's something that has always been at the forefront of what we're doing on the mobile space and on the web space as well. So I got to ask you about Microsoft. Obviously, Microsoft's big presence in the enterprise. What do you tell the folks out there that are in the enterprise side? Because there's a lot of mobile, big bring your own device to work. Again, some security issues, kind of. We don't want to talk about that now. But enterprise clients, they need to have mobile apps. Everyone who has an iPad, we've been hearing this for now two years, make this work on the network. And so you're starting to see that migration. You've done some things. Now it's more, okay, I want to roll out BYOD, bring your own device to work. And I got to hear them to work on that. So what is your advice to enterprises when they come to you and say, hey, I want to quickly turn up some mobile apps to drive my business? I think this is really a sweet spot for us for Kendo UI Mobile. So Kendo UI Mobile is a key piece of Kendo UI. We have Kendo UI Web, DataViz for SPG-based charts and graphs and visualizations, and then Kendo UI Mobile. And Kendo UI Mobile is an adaptive rendering framework that actually gives you a native-looking feel on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry devices. And so it's really a matter of writing one set of markup, one set of HTML, one set of JavaScript, and then our framework will detect the device and render something that looks like an iOS app on an iPhone or an iPad. It looks like an Android app on an Android. And so when you're in that environment of bring your own device, what you're doing is you're building an app for your customers that is one code base that your dev team has to maintain, but something that feels more comfortable to all of your users, even in the enterprise, because it feels like they're other Android apps. And they wrap in development too, right? And you can go fast. And this is one of those areas where it's not, you don't have to worry about having four dev team because you're not Facebook and you don't have a billion dollars lying around. Or they might want to go native on maybe one or two apps, not 20. Absolutely, absolutely. Right, exactly. So they can pick a choose. And there's a lot of internal apps where this is a great... And that's the Kendo UI? That's Kendo UI, yeah. So Kendo UI Mobile is that. And what's the website? It's actually kendoui.com. Kendo, K-E-N-D-O, yeah, UI.com. Great, okay. Check that out. We're here at the Fluent Conference. This is Silicon Angles theCUBE. We go out to the events, start to see them from the noise. Go to siliconangle.com and you'll see the blog posts about this event. Also go to O'Reilly Media. They have great content on their site. They're also live streaming. And if you wanna see the videos after all the miss some interviews, go to youtube.com slash siliconangle and you'll see all the videos up there. My final question for you is, as you peruse the event here and you're out pioneering and plowing the fields of the future, what are the things that are gonna, what shoes are gonna drop in the next five years? Obviously this is explosive. There's no doubt about it. JavaScript's gonna be around. You talked about jQuery and other things. It's gonna mature pretty fast. What are some of the things you see happening in the next five years for developers that they should be watching, concerned about participating in? I think the biggest is to pay attention to the fact that the web is continuing to propagate everywhere. We talked a little bit about JavaScript being on the server and in the database. There's also this trend of the web making its way onto platforms. Windows 8 is a great example of this. Windows 8 is the only platform where you can build a JavaScript-based app and a C-sharp-based app and they look identical to an end user and that's actually a full-on platform app. What Mozilla is doing with Firefox OS is the same thing with Firefox OS. You actually now have basically the web browser as the operating system. Chrome's doing the same thing with Chrome OS and so I think that's the biggest thing for developers to pay attention to is that the open web is not about the web browser anymore. It's about all devices. I asked Sergey Brin when he launched Chrome. Is it an operating system? He had a twinkle in his eye. This was in 2008. So again, we make the right predictions here. But this was pretty obvious. Android was right around the corner. You could just connect the dots.  The web is a platform. That's it for all devices. Yeah, and I think this is changing the game. You mentioned Windows 8. I mean, Microsoft Monopoly was based upon having an operating system in apps that run on top of it. You take that operating system away and distribute it with open source. You now have an interesting market dynamic. That's playing a lot into this, isn't it? Absolutely, yeah, very much so. And losing a little bit of that stronghold has actually caused them to innovate a bit more. It's great.  That benefits developers. Yeah, I mean, I think Microsoft, I mean, my assessment of Microsoft following them since I was a first generation in the industry with them is that they start getting their breakfast eaten and now a little bit of their lunch and they realize that if this path, open source is going to eat their lunch and then ultimately their dinner. So I think they're pretty stoked that they have to move quickly. Absolutely, and I've been impressed with the work that they've done. You've seen a lot more Microsoft teams making their way into GitHub, contributing to communities, getting involved in Node.js. The things that they've been adding to Azure for non-windows-based operating, you can run a Linux box in Azure now. Five years ago, that would have been unthinkable. Brandon Satshrip, guru, who's done a lot of JavaScript on the platform side. Great discussion about your Microsoft work you've done and also in the standards as well, Microsoft.  Keep up the good work. We're looking forward to seeing more success there and on the open source side as well. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. This is theCUBE. We'll be right back with our next guest. I'm John Furrier from SiliconANGLE and I'm with Jeff Frick and we'll be right back with our next guest after the short break.


With the news, SBF, you remember SBF, Sam Bankron-Feed, the CEO of Bankrupt FTX. Sam Bankron-Feed was, as you know, convicted of fraud, as you know, because we covered it on the show, convicted of fraud for what he did at FTX and has been fined billions of dollars, so his personal wealth has basically been eviscerated to try to pay off some of the debts that the company had when it had been bankrupt. As interestingly enough, as it turns out, because of what's happened with crypto and particularly what's happened with Bitcoin and with the rest of crypto over the last few months, achieving all-time highs going above 70,000 and stuff, the assets of FTX actually turn positive. I think people actually made money on the bankrupt company because it held enough Bitcoin to cover everything, but of course, that doesn't mitigate the fact that there was fraud committed and at the time of the company shutting down and the fraud prosecution, it was in the red, it's only turned green because of the market, because of the movement in the market. Anyway, Sam Becker-Feed was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in jail. Now, I'm no Sam Becker-Feed fan for many, many, many reasons among them, his effective altruism, but more importantly, he committed fraud and he should go to jail and that is really, really, really bad. About 25 years in jail, I mean, there are rapists who don't get 25 years in jail. Second-degree murder doesn't get, I think in many cases doesn't get 25 years in jail. Beating somebody up, aggravated assault doesn't get 25 years in jail. This seems like, this is nuts. It reminds me a little bit of kind of Donald Trump's 450 something billion dollar, a million dollar fine. I mean, these are ridiculous, particularly in an era where shoplifting cool, we're not going to even prosecute you.  He got like, some minimal thing and he's back on the streets. I mean, there's something very, very wrong about this kind of sentence for these kind of things. SBF is obviously a bad guy, but he's not the kind of bad that I think justifies this kind of sentence. You know, what can you say?  I'm making an example of you. The judge here making an example of SBF, obviously, but for what? Over what? So far it is bad. You know, I would have expected a five-year term, maybe a 10-year term. 25 years is just insane given how we treat violent criminals in this culture. So I don't know. I feel sorry for, I don't know if I was just sorry for SBF, but I guess I do.  I wonder if some future administration will pardon him given how many political contributions he made while he was around, but I'm not sure they will. I mean, why? I'm sure a lot of them would just rather forget him. He's gone. He's never going to make a future contribution, so why bother? Real sacrificial lamb for the sins of crypto, for the hatred of crypto, for the hatred of finance, for the hatred of people being successful in finance. I mean, Bernie may have got 150 years. I mean, that seems exaggerated, right? 150 years given the motorists don't get that. I mean, first degree motorists don't get 150 years. That seems exaggerated.  He had intent from the beginning, really. He built a pyramid scheme. SBF did bad stuff, but you get a sense that he kind of drifted into it. It wasn't one big scheme to defy his investors, the people did business with him. It was something that kind of, like most fards, drifted into and landed up covering himself and covering previous mistakes by committing fraud. It's not the same thing. Intent matters. Bernie made up. I still don't think it deserves 150 years, but certainly it deserves more than SBF. So yeah, sure, SBF is way worse than punching a person in the face. But the person punching in the face got zero. So it's not that much worse. And it's not worse than killing somebody. It's not worse than raping somebody. It's not worse than, you know, some aggravated assault where people are beaten to an edge of their life. And 25 years is a lot in criminal law. So no, it strikes me as way too much, way too much. Well, it's not a hatred of envy of success. It's a hatred of people in finance. And yes, some people in finance came at fraud. So let's really go after them as compared to everybody else. But I would say there are lots of violent crimes that are much, much worse than what SBF did. And look, the people who participated, the people who invested, the people who played along and had dealings with SBF, you know, were somewhat blind to this, right? Were somewhat evasive to this. It's not like they are completely innocent and that a little bit of due diligence wouldn't have discovered this. Same thing is true, by the way, of Bernie made up. Lots of people refuse to give Bernie money because they understood what was going on. So I'm not blaming the victims here, but I'm just saying I'd like to see sentences on violent crime go up. And sentences on this kind of stuff come down. Not to zero, five, 10 years, still a significant chunk of somebody's life. This strikes me as exaggerated. All right.


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Asha and I am going to help you with the following question which says find P0, P1 and P2 for each of the following polynomials. Starting with the first one which is Py is equal to y square minus y plus 1 and we have to find P0, P1 and P2. Now to find the values of P0, P1 and P2 we will replace the variable y in the polynomial Py by 0, 1 and 2 respectively. So first let us find the value of P0 which we will get on replacing this y by 0. So first we have 0 square minus 0 plus 1 which is equal to 0 minus 0 plus 1 which is further equal to 1. So this implies P at 0 is equal to 1. Now we have to find the value of the polynomial Py at y is equal to 1.  Thus the value of the polynomial Py at y is equal to 1 is also 1. And lastly we have to find the value of the polynomial Py at y is equal to 2. So replacing the variable y by 2 we have 2 square minus 2 plus 1 which is equal to 2 square is 4 minus 2 plus 1. Now 4 plus 1 is 5 and 5 minus 2 is 3. Thus we have 3 and hence the polynomial Py at y is equal to 2 is equal to 3. Thus we have P0 is equal to 1, P1 is equal to 1 and P2 is equal to 3. So this completes the first part and now proceeding on to the next one where the polynomial is Pt is equal to 2 plus t plus 2t square minus d cube and we have to find the values of the polynomial Pt at 0 at t is equal to 1 and t is equal to 2. So first let us find the value of the polynomial Pt at t is equal to 0. So we have on substituting t as 0 in the polynomial we get 2 plus 0. Now 0 square is 0 on multiplying it with 2 we get 0 and 0 cube is again 0. So the value of the polynomial Pt at t is equal to 0 is 2. Now let us find the value of the polynomial Pt at t is equal to 1.  Thus 3 plus 2 is 5 and 5 minus 1 is 4 and hence the value of the polynomial Pt at t is equal to 1 is 4 and lastly let us find the value of the polynomial Pt at t is equal to 2 and on substituting t as 2 we have 2. In place of t we will put 2 and we have 2 plus t square t is 2 whole square minus t cube is 2 whole cube. Now 2 plus 2 is 4 and we have plus 2, 2 square is again 4 and 2 cube is 2 into 2 into 2 that is 8 and 2 into 4 is 8. So plus 8 minus 8 cancels out and we have 4. Thus the value of the polynomial Pt at t is equal to 2 is 4. Hence we have P0 is equal to 2, P1 is equal to 4 and P2 is equal to 4. So this completes the second part. Let us now proceed on to the third part where Px is equal to x cube and we are required to find P0, P1 and P2. First let us find the value of P0 which we get on replacing the variable x by 0 that is we have 0 whole cube which is equal to 0. Thus P at 0 is equal to 0. Now let us find the value of the polynomial Px at x is equal to 1 which we get on replacing 1 x by 1 which is equal to 1 and thus P at 1 is equal to 1. And lastly on finding the value of the polynomial Px at x is equal to 2 we have 2 whole cube which is equal to 8 and thus the value of the polynomial at x is equal to 2 is 8 and thus we have P at 0 is equal to 0, P at 1 is equal to 1 and P at 2 is equal to 8. So it completes the third part and now proceeding on to the last part which is Px is equal to x minus 1 into x plus 1. And we are required here to find the values of the polynomial Px at x is equal to 0, x is equal to 1 and x is equal to 2. So first let us find the value of the polynomial Px at x is equal to 0. We have 0 minus 1 and 0 plus 1, 0 minus 1 is minus 1 and 0 plus 1 is 1 and on multiplying minus 1 with 1 we get minus 1 and thus the value of the polynomial Px at x is equal to 0 is minus 1. Now let us find the value of the polynomial Px at x is equal to 1, thus we have 1 minus 1 into 1 plus 1 and 1 minus 1 is equal to 0 and 1 plus 1 is equal to 2 and on multiplying 0 with 2 we get 0, thus the value of the polynomial P1 is equal to 0. And now let us find the value of the polynomial Px at x is equal to 2, thus replacing the variable x by 2 we have 2 minus 1 into 2 plus 1 and 2 minus 1 is 1 and 2 plus 1 is 3 and on multiplying 0 with 1 we get 3, thus the value of the polynomial Px at x is equal to 2 is equal to 3 and thus P at 0 is equal to minus 1, P at 1 is equal to 0 and P at 2 is equal to 3. So this completes the solution, so hope you enjoyed it, just be careful in adding, subtracting and multiplying according to the sign and replace the variable by the given values to find the value of the given polynomial. So take care and have a good day.


Hello and welcome. This is January 12th. This is the Education Committee in the Vermont House of Representatives. And we are just going to have a brief discussion on what the week is going to look like so far. This afternoon, we're going to be meeting with the House General Housing and Military Affairs Committee. We will be looking at healthcare bargaining for school employees. And this is addressing what can be bargained and what cannot be bargained. This was kind of a complicated thing that emerged in 2018 related to a veto by the governor of the budget. And out of that, we had Act 11 that created this commission. And I'd probably say something when we meet with them as well. So this week, tomorrow, my goal this week is to get an update to hear from the field. How are we doing? How are our students? How are our faculty? How are our communities doing in the period of COVID-19? So we are going to hear from various groups. We're going to hear from the superintendents tomorrow morning. This will be followed by the principals. And then in the afternoon, we'll have the sexual harassment prevention training and the operative word there is prevention. I'm assuming that's going to be about an hour. And if there's opportunity to get more after that, I'll let you know. And then on Thursday, we're going to get an update from the agency of education and we'll have an opportunity to get a sense of guidance and what their sense is of how we're doing. We will also be hearing from the school boards. And I believe that we're working on getting the teachers and the guidance counselors in. Is that correct, Jesse? That is correct. So we may end up meeting a little bit later on Friday afternoon to accommodate teachers that are teaching. And we will, we'll be hearing about that. Given that we have nobody that has to drive home to the Northeast Kingdom or down to Pownall or, you know, the southern part of the state. We will, we will be holding our committee meetings a little bit later than we might have on a Friday. Let's see. I'm currently, Jesse and I're currently working on getting a presentation for you on education finance. Education finance is going to be part of one of the tax workshops that Representative Ansel talked about, but it's coming a little bit later. I felt that our committee should have a better understanding of how education finance works. Because people are going to be asking you. So be helpful to be informed. And don't be afraid. It's, it's complicated. Whenever you're dealing with something that is fair or easy. Easy isn't generally not fair. So it's a complicated system. We're also looking to get information from the agency of education and Ted Fisher is in the room with us. So he's listening, but he's just listening right now and I'll let you know, Ted, if I want your attention. We'll be asking to get information on how the CRF funds were spent. That's covered relief funds that came out of the cares act last year. And that money spent and what is left. Jesse, would you, when we do that, will you also invite Robin shy, and that's SCH EU from the appropriations committee. She will be our liaison to our committee for pre K 12 funding. We'll be part of that. And also representative Conlon is also going to be our liaison to the appropriations committee. So he might have to head up to appropriations now and then I'm going to keep saying up because they're upstairs. So just, I'm still in the building myself. So we will, we will be hearing hearing from them. We're also Kathleen is also good. Here comes Casey. We also will be Kathleen is helping Kathleen was appointed by the speaker last year to serve on the select committee for the Vermont State colleges that are our, our, our report on that Kathleen is going to help us set up testimony on what that interim report is about. It will be updated, I believe, in February. I would like us to get in before that. And we will hear from the people that wrote that report and a few others, including the Vermont State colleges will be working on what our role is in that. And then we will hear from the committee that created the select committee, or at least we presented our thoughts on the select committee to to the appropriations committee and, and that's how it got to got to be. And Jesse, when we take that up. Would you also invite. Peter Fagan from the appropriations committee. I'm going to hire add post secondary. I like to think of it as tertiary, but the only one so So if you could just add, add those two people from appropriations when we're talking finance. And then also, we have several bills that have that have been sent to our committee. And then we'll have an opportunity to look at what we're going to take up and what what moves to the top of the priority, given that the circumstances that we're in now and what could possibly wait. And what the committee really doesn't have an interest. So, just questions or thoughts on that is there are there things that you would like me to know more about. I'm going to go to Catherine just a second I just remembered when I presented the wall, what the wall looks like. One of the things that Jesse could you pull that up again is that easy to pull up. Well, I'm talking. When I refer to the wall. What I want you to know is that bills that actually passed out of committee are sometimes several bills all put together into one bill. There were probably 15 different bills on the white side of that that were related to delays for act 46, and they all went into one bill that we presented on the floor. That bill ended up dying in the committee of conference. And that ended up being no delays to act 46. In some ways, I think we're probably going to hear that some of those communities in the, as they're working with them closures that may have been a God sound that they were not dealing on. Merging or actually dealing on services. So, okay, thank you, Jesse. And any other questions on that. Any other thoughts. Okay. So, Kathleen James representative James. It's chair web. I just wanted to let everybody know that a revised and updated version of the select committee's report is was posted yesterday on our website. The decision process is already well underway for that next February deadline and I'll send a link to everybody when we're done here. So you can take a look there are a bunch of new sections. And they will be presenting that the people that wrote that wrote that report, I will we are inviting them into the committee to present it to us and the opportunity to ask questions. Representative Austin. Thank you. I think all of us have received a copy of the tax structure commission strapped report. And I started reading that until I realized it was 183 pages long. But they're asking for feedback and I believe the Ed fund is included in that report and I'm just wondering if I don't know if it would be our role as a committee to get feedback or maybe at some time when we had a chance to read at least the Ed fund portion of that report. To talk about it, I, you know, I don't know if that has really anything to do with us in terms of input but you know that would be will you bring that up when when JFO comes in to present the Ed fund to us. Yeah, some questions then. Okay, about that. That would be a discussion also with representative Ansel as to where it is in our jurisdiction. Yeah, so I think they're taking feedback until January 21. Yeah. Okay, thank you. Okay. Let's see. Anybody else. Are there topics of interest that you would like to make sure that we address this year. I want you to also if you see bills that that are of interest to you that come through bearing in mind that we are under pressure. Madam chair, are we considering rate on as something that could be on the horizon or. I haven't seen that anything come in in that regard. I do expect to see something related to school construction. And I think that may end up being that this committee last year passed a bill out of our committee that ended up I think dying in the appropriations committee in the middle of COVID-19 was went through from our committee. We worked with the institutions committee and send it to ways and means and it ended up dying up and out in appropriations. There is possibility we will be looking at the new covert relief funds. We will be looking for presentation on that at some point, but I'd like to work with like to work with our appropriations committee on the order of that. But we will have an opportunity to look at that. And it's certainly an interest of mine. I've been in touch with a congressman Welsh's office about it. And I think we get it as a priority for the national conference of state legislators. We are not the only only state struggling with aging infrastructure in our schools. We spent a lot of money recently on lead remediation, and we certainly have spent a lot of money on each back in air quality. We certainly, we don't have anybody here representing Burlington, but we do know that Burlington high school is facing quite a situation. Representative James, did you have something else. Yep, thanks. Just wanted to bills of interest. I hope I copied everybody yesterday on the latest draft of the community schools bill and if you have any questions about that. I'm going to introduce it later this week. Representative Austin. Yeah, I'm still revising and working on the literacy bill but literacy is a huge concern of mine, and it has been since last year and, you know, whether we take up my bill or not, I would really like to hear again from the Stern Center, and from there was a gentleman I was looking for his name that spoke to us I think from the BMG group that wrote the report on the struggling students. I'd like to hear kind of again from all of them on the state of literacy in Vermont. I understand that the secretary also has that interest, and you are taking you've taken the bill that we passed out of committee last year correct. Yeah, and you're introducing that. I would say that we have an opportunity this year, perhaps to use some of the money coming in from from the current. I'm not sure what it's called but we'll just call it CRF for now. We'll have an opportunity to use some money for that as well as we as we look at learning loss, learning loss and, and I think the NEA would prefer we called it in undelivered education. Everybody's learning I just don't know what they're learning and it's not necessarily great stuff that some of the kids are learning. And I am including a section on the impact of COVID on learning in this new bill. And remember it doesn't have to be completely perfect before you. Thank you, Kate. Better to get it better to get it introduced so we can fix them committee. Okay. Let's see represent James is that still you have another one. Yeah, I haven't really gathered my thoughts around this at all yet. Thank you and I mentioned this in passing yesterday if if time permits. I would like to at least learn a little bit more about media literacy and how students in our schools are taught to assess sources to understand and have some discernment around what they see on social media. And how to gain some skills around determining whether what they're seeing online is accurate. Certainly, we certainly call on the agency to have a conversation with us about where it where it fits in the standards. And I think over all of that for for me as we're looking at at things like the waiting study is who's overseeing the standards that they're actually being implemented. I will tell you when when 911 happened I was working in the Williston Central School, and I remember walking into a classroom, and I saw some of the most amazing teaching as that the towers were being, you know, decimated, and I was watching the teacher teach them how to assess what they were watching. What was fact what are they assuming how do you what you know what are you going to do with that assumption that you think it's the Russians, for example, is this unknown it watch watching the teacher go through what they were assuming, and being able to bring them back to evidence was was really impressive so there are some people that really know how to do this well. I'd love to know how we're how we're teaching that like I said I haven't started to explore this but you know, I think there's nothing. If we're all to democracy then making sure we're all operating from a shared set of facts. So if we have time I'd love to, I'd love to take a look at that. That's great and if anybody's interested take a look at the Jill the poor article called hacking of America. It's pretty interesting discussion on how we sort of gotten to the state of what's happened to media and goes back to the fairness doctrine and what happened in the Reagan administration and it's fascinating article and also refers to the founding fathers okay sorry geeking out representative to. Thanks chair web, sort of a little late we had a caucus went a little bit long so. I was wondering I don't know if you talked about it or if we're going to speak about it. I know in the governor's address he spoke about and I'm sure we'll know this after his budget address but childcare. That retains what that means to the agency of education. Right. That's a big one. And I thank you that that is that it is that will be a very big conversation. Thanks. Anything else. So, I will see you then after we will be after the floor. We will be I believe that's right is that right Jesse can you just review the. Yes it is so you all have the house floor at one o'clock today and then 15 minutes following that we will be joining House general housing and military to walk through there. So just to understand there. There was a bill that passed the Senate. Last year related to healthcare bargaining. We ended up going to House general housing and military affairs. It, we didn't do anything with it. It's the bill that I think we're reviewing is the bill that came over from the Senate. That is about to be reintroduced. There was a bill that just also went to that committee that representative Conlon submitted. I think we're just going to sort of start that conversation and see what happens. I'm happy to talk with you a little bit about the history of how we got there. I think represented I think representative Coupoli Conlon and I were the only ones that were in the edge committee in 2017 and 18 when this came forward in the special session. So it may need another look. Yeah. Is what the 21 0030. I don't know, but, but it was too, too. It was as 226 from last year and it will be. I think it might be on the it might be on the House general. What page. If it isn't on ours. Okay. I don't think it's on ours. Okay. It is on House general. Yeah. Okay. So it's on ours now too. Okay. That's outdated. Yeah, that's it's on. I apologize. Yes, it is on as of this morning. Okay. So everybody take a little break. We'll see you on the floor. So to speak. And we can go off live.


I'm going to show you how to unlock your body gate for health and vitality.  You want to be healthy, but some kind of sickness, some kind of disease, or some kind of problem in your body is just holding you back. You're not able to do the things that you used to do because of something stopping you and your body is not letting you do it. What you're about to see is a lesson from one of my courses that value over $1,000 and here you're going to learn about it absolutely free. So pay close attention because before I learned about these techniques I was sick, I was depressed and had chronic illness that I suffer from every day. Ever since I learned about what I'm about to share with you, my life was completely transformed, I became a lot healthier, able to do a lot of things that I couldn't do when I was sick. So pay close attention because this might transform your life forever. That and more is coming up. Four ways to get unstuck in your life. So the first one is unlocking your body gates. In Chinese martial arts and in meditation, tension is equal to blockage. So any kind of mental or physical tension, that's a blockage in your chakras, in your body, okay? Disease is actually just a lack of ease or this dash ease. So a lot of our problems with the body is not because it just comes into us, it's because we don't have that ease in our body. We have too much blockages. We have too much tension in our bodies that actually causes disease, okay? So blockage of Chi energy flow is a big problem and it is caused by many things. So dieting, lack of exercise, external influences, also emotional issues, traumas and things like that, cause blockages in our mind and body and then block the flow of energy in our bodies and minds, okay? So how can we activate this Chi flow in our body? How can we unblock those blockages? So if you study Qigong or meditation or yoga or whatever, we have energy centers. We have chakras and then I want to focus on our Dantian or also known as the naval chakra center. So let's do a exercise, Qigong exercise right now. So why don't we all stand up and then this is a very easy exercise. We're just going to put our left hand over our belly button. Just imagine there's a there's a center here, right? So this center goes right on top of your belly button and then the right hand locks in like that and then over your belly button like this.  Can you do that?  Okay? Breathe in, belly gets big, breathe out, belly gets small. Do that a few times. So you look from the side, you can see my belly getting bigger. As I breathe in, breathe out. So do that. You can feel your belly coming in back in and out, right? Okay? And if you do that, if you practice this a lot, you can actually get like, how do you feel when you do that? More calm? Yeah, how do you feel? Relax. Okay? So when I'm doing this, I actually feel like, I feel hotter. Okay? So people have different senses. So what's happening is you're activating this chakra center, your navel chakra center. And in Chinese martial arts, this is the center of your chi. It's called the sea of chi translated. And this is like your battery source. Okay? And this is what powers a lot of the processes in your body. It's also called this second psychic center. You know, there's so many nerves we have in our navels, chakra center is actually just as many nerves as we have in our brain.  Okay? So when you have that gut feeling, you know, you've had that gut feeling before is actually thinking, right? So there's another way to think about it. Okay? So the second way we do it, that's the worst way, just breathing. Now, the second kind of like a progression is to do the same thing, except when you are breathing out, add a little bit of pressure, like kind of push back down into your belly as you're breathing out. So add a little bit of like resistance to your breathing. So as you're pressing in, you're breathing out. So both hands on your belly and kind of press into your belly, add some resistance. Okay? Okay? And the third progression is I want you to do some consecutive breaths in and out. So we could go, so you're dividing it into four breaths. Okay? In, in, in, in as it's coming out, out, out, out, out. So it forces you to get control of that diaphragmic muscle in your stomach. Okay? So how do you feel with that exercise?  More control? More calm? How do you feel? Rhythm? All right. Okay, let's have a seat. Thanks. That's the beginning of starting to access that chi energy in your body. Naturally, you don't have to take any drugs, you don't have to do, you don't have to work out even. Like this is like a workout of your internal nervous system. So how are we going to turn negative energy into positive energy? We, this is level four. There's also six healing sounds that cleanse your organs from the inside out. We discussed this in level four in the, in the course, which you're going to get access to later. Okay? We also are going to talk about structure versus force. This is from level one. So if you want to go back to level one and review that, that also applies to this of how to use power without using tension.  And it adds to the practices that you're already doing with that meditation. Do exactly the same thing, except use this and put it on your belly. That's all I need to do. Hey, do you like what you're watching so far? I've got a lot more content for you that you're going to love. So make sure you go and click these videos here and watch them next. If you haven't subscribed to this video, click the subscribe button here. And if you haven't taken the chi energy score, click the link in the description below to take the quiz.