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by boucher 17y ago
Point out what you think is a valid technical criticism in the code review at the top of this thread. I'll respond to it.
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by boucher 17y ago
Then why not stop including insults with your technical criticisms? If you include insults, purely stylistic criticism, and valid technical criticism all in an orgy of excited and angry words, people aren't going to take the time to dissect
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by boucher 17y ago
Doug readily admits that JSLint is opinionated. For example, it considers omitting a curly brace on a single line conditional to be an error. It considers fall through switch statements an error. It even considers differing opinions on whit
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by boucher 17y ago
Admittedly, my point would have been better made without the sarcasm. When provoked, I can be as big an asshole as anyone else I suppose. Still, I think there's a difference between responding to an unprovoked attack thread, and starting on
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by boucher 17y ago
The original was referenced above, an additional reference didn't seem necessary. I don't believe the quotes are out of context, that was the majority of his post. Just so you don't have to search for it, here is the link: http://groups.go
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by boucher 17y ago
It's difficult to have a rational discussion with someone who has already staked out an extreme position and offered little to no evidence to support that opinion. Also, it's spelled Cappuccino. And since David's superficial review containe
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by boucher 17y ago
His response is typical. He denies saying things which can easily be disproved. He makes basic factual errors and in the same sentence validates most of the criticism in this thread: "Cappuccino. That's something built on top of Sproutcore
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by boucher 17y ago
In an ideal world (and apparently this is already a feature in some Java IDEs) you would just tell your editor how you wanted curly braces and whitespace formatted, and it would always show it to you that way. My understanding of the existi
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by boucher 17y ago
You are absolutely right.
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by boucher 17y ago
His latest, on a bug report I filed against google closure: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_t... I'd like to see him write cross browser key-event handling code without doing UA sniffing. Honestly, I would like
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by boucher 17y ago
There are so many better outlets, anyone who's feeling trapped on comp.lang.javascript should just go somewhere else. I think it's a bold claim to say that David's understanding of the DOM is "significantly deeper" than John's. Especially c
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by boucher 17y ago
Not to mention, in his "reviews" he consistently nitpicks on tiny things and then declares that no further effort could possibly even be warranted. Use a dollar sign anywhere in your code and David Mark will declare you an incompetent fool.
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by boucher 17y ago
It's hard to find much validity, especially when it starts to boil down to comments like "As I recall, it seemed needlessly complex." He long ago formed the opinion that all libraries were shit, and apparently made that basis on how complex
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by boucher 17y ago
His arguments are nonsensical. Are there bugs in jQuery? To be sure. But he has absolutely no clue what real developers are looking for in a library. Many of the complaints in his critiques center around the fact that jQuery does things whi
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by boucher 17y ago
According to his LinkedIn, David Mark is now working at Sitepen, the primary contributors to Dojo. I guess he no longer believes that all JavaScript frameworks are completely idiotic...
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by boucher 17y ago
The performance that GWT is able to get is impressive. There are all kinds of optimizations they can make because of the assumptions they have, especially that you will run the code through the compiler.
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by boucher 17y ago
This may be true, but Arrington does push himself as a journalist, not as someone writing about his own venture. He's gone so far as to say that he is ushering in the next era of journalism...
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by boucher 17y ago
It's not redundancy, it's a title. No tab that I have open has room for it's title in Chrome, and almost no tab ever will. If you believe seeing page titles is important, than you have to agree that the Firefox/Safari/etc. approach is super
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by boucher 17y ago
This app was demo'd at Google IO this past spring. It was incredibly cool back then, and it's only gotten better since. It's going to be an amazing tool for web developers.
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by boucher 17y ago
You have to wonder how much of an increase the mint will see in this behavior now that its in the WSJ. I'm pretty tempted to sign up for a virgin america credit card right now just to do it.
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by boucher 17y ago
This is probably a good strategy if you are older. But its definitely bad for your credit rating, so might not be a great idea if you are younger or otherwise trying to maintain a good credit score.
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by boucher 17y ago
Thanks!
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by boucher 17y ago
How does one add a custom type to ack and get it to stick? Per the man page, I tried: ack --type-set objj=.j Doesn't work. I can append that to a query: ack CPWindowController --type-set objj=".j" And it will search .j f
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by boucher 17y ago
Actually, ratings don't really measure viewer satisfaction. They measure the number of people watching. Those aren't really the same things. The advertising based system on television is part of the reason why shows must have broad appeal,
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by boucher 17y ago
This should be a CommonJS package.
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by boucher 17y ago
Disagree. Every month we're seeing a new "X to JavaScript" compiler, and increasingly they are being written natively in JavaScript.
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by boucher 17y ago
Arguably you can use webworkers (available on V8 and JSC, and thus Narwhal on those platforms) for concurrency problems. Webworkers enforce no shared state though, they use a message passing mechanism. Not the greatest solution. Concurrency
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by boucher 17y ago
I think the opposite is true. The hardware is almost a gimmick to push what is otherwise a potentially powerful service. The theory behind this app is that individuals are now empowered to take credit cards for anything they previously woul
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by boucher 17y ago
Almost all of the HTML features in HTML5 are boring and barely useful. The rest, basically, <video> and <audio> are crippled. The useful parts of HTML5 are the new JavaScript APIs (which arguably don't really belong). Unfort
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by boucher 17y ago
The Google Chrome Frame plugin is hardly a panacea for old browsers.

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