AnEngineer

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by AnEngineer 11y ago
Points well presented, noted, and internalized for future use. :-) Thank you for taking the time to reply. In attempting to preface the content as potentially being controversial, I succeeded in only being trite (or droll or both). Learni
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by AnEngineer 11y ago
(Side note: it turns out I can't delete the other message. I must have hallucinated having that ability last night.) > I would argue that objects are nothing more than a uniquely identified run-time entity. With that identity, they
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by AnEngineer 11y ago
Prefacing a potentially contraversial position is a well established practice to inform a reader that what follows may not be readily accepted. In retrospect, mentioning down voting was trite. Thank you for being conscientious enough to po
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by AnEngineer 11y ago
I want to spend the time to provide a cogent response and it is late where I am at. So this is a "todo" response which will be deleted with a proper one ASAP.
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by AnEngineer 11y ago
My main point was not an "attack" on JavaScript objects. Instead, it was to illuminate that how many people write/speak of JavaScript objects use a frame of reference which simply is incorrect. Your question: > Yes JavaSc
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by AnEngineer 11y ago
I believe what you describe can be also described as performing a shallow copy on the prototype which includes the entries from previous copies of the hash map referenced in prior statements. Unless what transpires is a "back link&quot
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by AnEngineer 11y ago
While the observations I am about to make likely will be down-voted by some/many in this forum, perhaps even be viewed as heresy, I am compelled to present them on the chance that it helps some to understand what JavaScript objects tru
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by AnEngineer 11y ago
This thread may have already gone stale, but just in case not... I've found that treating configuration settings as "first class abstractions" in the Domain Model pays off quite nicely. By this, I mean grouping related setti
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by AnEngineer 11y ago
Is it just me, or is the irony of this story colossal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9662421
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by AnEngineer 11y ago
By "primary system", I meant the initial system(s) interacted with in a distributed environment. Assuming a connection based distributed model (e.g. TCP/IP), there is a system on the other end of the connection to which a cl
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by AnEngineer 11y ago
And my reply: I agree that there are complexities (as you state, “certain realities”) inherent in distributed systems. If there is one thing I believe we could both agree upon is that distributed systems increase the surface area of complex