YmMot

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   by YmMot 15y ago

   It's nice to see some critiques of CoffeeScript from an actual user, and not just speculation about why it might be bad...however some of the criticisms strike me as the product of not understanding CoffeeScript and/or not sharing it's phil
2. 62.▲
   by YmMot 15y ago

   Not really. There are several causes of death where this is the case, though admittedly suicide is one of them.
3. 63.▲
   by YmMot 15y ago

   It's not a question of "importance" or "purpose", it's a question of interest or relevance. This young man's death is just as "important" as the young woman you mention...they are both tragedies, they both will leave an indelible wound on m
4. 64.▲
   by YmMot 15y ago

   CoffeeScript doesn't allow you to shadow variables in enclosing scopes. The compiler will declare the variable in the "outer-most" scope in which is is used and then any uses in enclosed scopes refer to that one. In this case as long as OP
5. 65.▲
   by YmMot 15y ago

   Teaching?
6. 66.▲
   by YmMot 15y ago

   >Is it really necessary to expect a front end developer to have complete knowledge of manipulating the DOM without jQuery? It depends. For your average front-end developer adding light functionality to a web page/app? No, probably not.
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   by YmMot 15y ago

   These aren't some obscure "nice to know" functions...this isn't a "you don't have the manual memorized" gotcha question. Those functions are fundamental to writing JavaScript web applications...particularly at that point in time, but ev