At my most recent workplace they sadistically force everyone to use Windows 7. Being used to normal Unix command shells that one might find on Linux or MacOS machines, I was not happy about having to use cmd. However, I discovered MinGW, a program gives you BASH commands right in cmd! Although it's not 100% perfect, it definitely gets the job done and makes working with the command line in Windows a lot more comfortable and familiar. This is a short guide on setting it up.

Here's a thought: all betting games are built around some form of probabilistic randomness. 

In my new role I've been given the opportunity to really dig into React, learn a lot about it, and build an application with it. I had previously used Ngrx in Angular 2 so it was interesting to go back to the original Redux library after having used the Angular step-cousin. After a few small roadblocks the application is progressing rather smoothly, and I have to say I think Redux is pretty dang awesome.

What does the following code return in NodeJS?

var squaredNum = (4 + 1) ^ 2;
return squaredNum;

I got my degree in mathematics so I would expect this to return the number 25. But actually, the result is quite different- it's the number 7!

Oh god, I hope I don't end up being one of those bloggers that posts about Windows stuff all the time! Lol. It's true though- I recenty started working at a bank where theya are forcing me to use Windows 7 for NodeJs stuff. smh -_-

Anyway, here's how you can kill all running node processes in the Windows cmd promt.