Those who take on the world with ideas that outlive them belong as much — perhaps more — to it as they do to their families. While their work and public lives are well-documented, the personal side often remains obscured; the hardships and sacrifices taking a backseat as glory, at times infamy, take centre stage.

In Jenny von Westphalen, however, Karl Marx didn't just find a companion who provided him emotional strength and succour as the Marxes battled penury, persecution and the death of four of their children, but also an unrelenting collaborator as he analysed the flaws of capitalism and provided an alternative that continues to stir up impassioned debates. On the political theorist and revolutionary's 201st birth anniversary on May 5, Michaela Talwar and Satchit Puranik are bringing together their German and Indian backgrounds in the new play Mrs & Marx, to present what they call an impossible love story.

Michaela Talwar

Playing themselves, the city-based artistes invoke the spirits of Karl and Jenny (pronounced Yenny) to examine their story through the annals of history. A Harkat Studios production, work began on it exactly a year ago, on the 200th anniversary of Marx. It is a multilingual piece of documentary theatre that juxtaposes the performers' experiences in the present day with that of the world of the Marxes.

"I am privileged to know German. I read several of Jenny's letters, which opened an insight into her personality. Far from a meek housewife, she was a theatre critic, who was unapologetically outspoken," says Talwar, for whom collaborating with Puranik was an easy decision after she watched the production, Karl Marx in Kalbadevi, in which he plays the protagonist.

Puranik explains how his lived experience after marriage further refined Marx's theories and analysis of capital and cash supply, while Talwar says, "Marx wasn't a feminist to start with. [But with Jenny's outspokenness], he would learn to appreciate a woman's opinion. So, she set a subtle but effective example of feminism." Puranik adds, "'Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex...' is among Marx's oft-quoted statements. He rejected the idea of private property, which lay at the core of patriarchy. Even in his analysis of class struggle, he spoke of how women were appropriated into the factory system."

Two centuries after Marx and his beloved comrade and friend Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto, communism as a political ideology struggles for survival today, existing only in a few pockets around the world, including India. Drawing from her experiences in India and Germany, Talwar tells us that opinions on Marx here swing between a deified and demonised image, while in Germany, it is easier to come across detached dissection of his works.

What remains undisputed however, say the directors and actors, is Marx's relevance. "With the financial depression of 2007-08, even his harshest critics couldn't escape the fact that through his works, he lives on to haunt them," asserts Puranik, while Talwar shares, "Nothing has changed in these 200 years, and the world remains an extremely unequal place." But she is quick to add, "Whether you believe in Marxism or not, this is a hopeful play; one that fights the discourse of hate that surrounds us with a love story."

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In this episode, the panelists talk to Matthew Podwysocki about Functional Reactive Programming and RxJS.

02:19 - Matthew Podwysocki Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Microsoft

04:01 - RxJS

• Reactive JavaScript Interview w/ Jeffrey Van Gogh & Matthew Podwysocki @ JSConf 2010
• “First-class Events”

10:18 - Practical Experience of Use

• Observables

17:28 - observable-spec

21:43 - Observables and Promises

25:06 - Using RxJS in Common Frameworks

• RxJS Git Book
• RxJS Gitter Channel

27:53 - Are there places where observables might not be better than callbacks/Promises?

29:16 - Why would someone use RxJS on the backend in place of Node streams?

• RabbitMQ

32:28 - Are Promises dying?

36:13 - Observable Gotchas

• Hot vs Cold Observables

40:29 - Influence

• Elm
• Functional Reactive Programming (FRP)

47:47 - Will observables in ES2016 replace RxJS?

Picks

A cartoon guide to Flux (Aimee)
Promisees (Aimee)
The Dear Hunter - Act IV Rebirth in Reprise (Jamison)
Jessie Char: Expert On Nothing @ NSConf7 (Jamison)
XHR Breakpoints (Dave)
Glove and Boots (Dave)
Computer Programming (Joe)
Evan Czaplicki’s Thesis for Elm (Joe)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Chuck)
thaliproject (Matthew)
BBC Micro Bit (Matthew)
Minutemen (Matthew)

On today's episode, Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames, and Tracy Lee discuss Reactive Programming and RxJS with Ben Lesh. Ben works at Netflix and also has a side job for Rx Workshop with Tracy. He is the lead author of RxJS 5. Tune in to learn more about RxJS!

JSJ BONUS EPISODE: Observables and RxJS Live with Aaron Frost

Mon Jul 29 2019 13:00:56 GMT+0300 (+03)

Episode Number: bonus

Duration: 29:35

https://media.devchat.tv/js-jabber/JSJ_Bonus_Aaron_Frost.mp3

Host: Charles Max Wood

Joined by Special Guest: Aaron Frost

Episode Summary

Aaron Frost joins Charles to talk about what Observables are and why developers should learn about them and use them in their code. He explains the difference between Observables, Promises and Callbacks with an example. Aaron then invites all listeners to attend the upcoming RxJS Live Conference and introduces the impressive speaker line-up. The conference will take place on September 5-6 in Las Vegas and tickets are still available. Aaron also offers a $100 discount to all listeners with the code "chuckforlife". For any questions you can DM Aaron at his Twitter account.

Links

• RxJS Live Conference
• RxJS Conference Tickets
• Aaron's Twitter
• Promises
• Callbacks

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber Charles Max Wood does interviews at RxJS Live. His first interview is with Hannah Howard at RxJS Live about her talk. Hannah is really enthusiastic about RxJS especially when it comes to frontend development. Her talk is about how to architect full-scale apps with RxJS. Hannah gives a brief summary of her talk. Charles having met Hanna previously at Code Beam asks her how functional programming and reactive programming work together in her mind. Hannah describes how she sees programming. 

Charles’s next interview is with Ben Lesh, a core team member of RxJS. Ben has been working on RxJS for the last four years. In his talk, he shares the future of RxJs, the timeline for versions 7 and 8. With Charles, he discusses his work on RxJS and the adoption of RxJS. 

Next, Charles interviews Sam Julien and Kim Maida. They gave a talk together covering the common problems developers have when learning RxJS. In the talk, they share tips for those learning RxJS. Charles wonders what inspired them to give this talk. Both share experiences where they encouraged someone to use RxJS but the learning curve was to steep. They discuss the future of RxJS adoptions and resources. 

Finally, Charles interviews Kim alone about her second talk about RxJS and state management. She explains to Charles that many state management libraries are built on RxJS and that it is possible to roll out your own state management solution with RxJS. They discuss why there are so many different state management libraries. Kim shares advice for those looking to roll out their own solutions.

Panelists

• Charles Max Wood

Guests

• Hannah Howard

• Ben Lesch

• Sam Julien

• Kim Maida

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Links

• https://www.rxjs.live/

• RxJS Live Youtube Channel

• https://twitter.com/techgirlwonder

• https://twitter.com/benlesh

• http://www.samjulien.com/

• https://twitter.com/samjulien

• https://twitter.com/KimMaida

• https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber

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In this episode of JavaScript Jabber Charles Max Wood continues interviewing speakers at RxJS Live. First, he interviews Mike Ryan and Sam Julien. They gave a talk about Groupby, a little known operator. They overview the common problems other mapping operators have and how Groupby addresses these problems. The discuss with Charles where these types of operators are most commonly used and use an analogy to explain the different mapping operators. 

Next, Charles talks to Tracy Lee. Her talk defines and explains the top twenty operators people should use. In her talk, she shows real-world use cases and warns against gotchas. Tracy and Charles explain that you don’t need to know all 60 operators, most people only need about 5-10 to function. She advises people to know the difference between the different types of operators. Tracy ends her interview by explaining her desire to inspire women and people of minority groups. She and Charles share their passion for diversity and giving everyone the chance to do what they love.

Dean Radcliffe speaks with Charles next and discusses his talk about making React Forms reactive. They discuss binding observables in React and how Dean used this in his business. He shares how he got inspired for this talk and how he uses RxJS in his everyday work.  

The final interview is with Joe Eames, CEO of Thinkster. Joe spoke about error handling. He explains how he struggled with this as did many others so he did a deep dive to find answers to share. In his talk, he covers what error handling is and what it is used for. Joe outlines where most people get lost when it comes to error handling. He also shares the three strategies used in error handling, Retry, Catch and Rethrow and, Catch and Replace. Charles shares his admiration for the Thinkster teaching approach. Joe explains what Thinkster is about and what makes them special. He also talks about The DevEd podcast. 

Panelists

• Charles Max Wood

Guests

• Mike Ryan 

• Sam Julien

• Tracy Lee

• Dean Radcliffe

• Joe Eames

Sponsors

• ABOUT YOU |aboutyou.com/apply

• Sentry -use the code "devchat" for 2 months free on Sentry's small plan

• CacheFly

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Links

• https://www.rxjs.live/

• RxJS Live Youtube Channel

• https://twitter.com/mikeryandev

• https://twitter.com/samjulien

• https://twitter.com/ladyleet?

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/rx-helper

• https://twitter.com/deaniusol

• https://twitter.com/josepheames

• https://devchat.tv/dev-ed/

• https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber

• https://twitter.com/JSJabber

'Kaala's sin is not that it is presented as a mouthpiece for its director Pa Ranjith's political viewpoints, but that it makes a travesty of them.''Ranjith turns Marx into merchandise, all the while functioning as a hired hand for Brand Rajinikanth,' points out Sreehari Nair.

Here's how Payal Rajput feels about Kartikeya being cast for RX 100 instead of Vijay Deverakonda

Title: Marx's capital [electronic resource] / Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho.
Author: Fine, Ben, author.
Imprint: London New York : Pluto Press, 2010.
Shelfmark: EBSCO ebooks
Subjects: Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Kapital.
Marxian economics.
Kapital (Marx, Karl) fast (OCoLC)fst01356163
Marxian economics. fast (OCoLC)fst01010951

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