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by grayrest 17y ago
I, at least, would prefer you link the article directly instead of making it a pseudo-ask HN. That said... Overall, I think it's pretty neat and not too far off what I've been thinking about doing for a in-browser templating language. I thi
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by grayrest 17y ago
> Duplicating 2 or 3 lines may seem like a minor problem, but having to change those 2 or 3 lines every time you make a change quickly becomes a maintainence burden, especially when they're littered throughout your CSS. The extra burden
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by grayrest 17y ago
YUI3 is MUCH smaller than YUI2. The rewrite was mostly about addressing this exact issue though everything-in-a-closure and pervasive query API were also major reasons. They basically took a fair number of the modules in YUI2 and sliced the
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by grayrest 17y ago
The third slide is out of date. 1.30 removed support for promises. All previously promised-based functions now take a callback parameter as their last argument instead, so the slide would be written: posix.rename("/tmp/hello", "/tmp/w
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by grayrest 17y ago
Note the blog author posts in the comments that this is NOT a leak about IE9 canvas support.
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by grayrest 17y ago
> difficulty of finding trained programmers This one in particular always really annoys me. I get shot down all the time for this reason and I really don't recommend anything a competent developer couldn't pick up in a week. That means
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by grayrest 17y ago
There are a couple other parser generators for JS: * http://zaa.ch/2k - Jison * http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/peg_first_release - another Packrat (has an es5 parser as an example) Plus a few more that work but produce generated code
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by grayrest 17y ago
I think it's amazing that the Internet works. Topical video (Everything's amazing and nobody's happy): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
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by grayrest 17y ago
That is what I was talking about. I remembered it being Atul but looks like I was a year off.
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by grayrest 17y ago
The guys over at Humanized (now at mozilla) did this for plain javascript about two years ago, FWIW. It's not quite as awesome when you don't have a sweet parser DSL.
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by grayrest 17y ago
If you know about vim text objects and f/t motion, there isn't much that paredit mode can do that vim text objects don't. E.g f) is the equivalent to paredit-forward while ci( is 'replace contents of s-expr' and da[ would be 'delete vector'
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by grayrest 17y ago
I'd actually say that Leo is horrible except for the one feature that makes it amazing (outlines). I find myself wanting to implement outlines in Vim but knowing I never will.
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by grayrest 17y ago
Since coffeescript was mentioned, the Ruby andand library is also frequently mentioned when this comes up. (I only ruby for Rake).
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by grayrest 17y ago
No more than you can protect an image in a page from being downloaded. e.g. you could escape the URL or check referrers, but that's not really going to stop anybody.
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by grayrest 17y ago
Do not write your own library from scratch. It sounds a whole lot easier than it is since most of the work in writing the library isn't the actual code writing but rather getting it tested and debugged in all the variants of all the browser
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by grayrest 17y ago
It's a fairly strange list mostly because it seems the guy doesn't do a lot of programming. The whole 'only focus on one thing' is pretty well known for writing, which is why the vairous writeroom clones exist. I've always felt that vim was
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by grayrest 17y ago
I'll agree with this. Pylons is a win when: 1. You need SQLAlchemy. 2. You're not really leveraging the Django admin. 3. You don't need anything in pinax or the rest of the django apps. I actually prefer the various wsgi options over Django
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by grayrest 17y ago
Having poked around the source as part of implementing full vim support, I believe that nodes.coffee [1] exercises every single coffeescript feature except splats and js escaping, so that might be interesting to people as well even if it is
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by grayrest 17y ago
> I also wish for less hype around the Node project I'm tremendously amused that you write this when every other poster on HN is desperately trying to generate hype for their project/company.
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by grayrest 17y ago
The server side javascript guys are more interested in templating than most client side and all server side templating engines will run in the browser. Here's a pair of discussions on the subject: http://groups.google.com/group/commonjs/br
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by grayrest 17y ago
The first place I saw this style of interaction is in the novella-weight Magic Ink [1] essay. [1] http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
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by grayrest 17y ago
Since we're discussing this, is there any equivalent to git rebase --interactive? Coming from darcs to git (I add -p more or less exclusively), I didn't think I'd use rebase much but commit reordering/squashing has turned out to be very use
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by grayrest 17y ago
Mark Ramm (maintainer) works for SF. It's not like it's a bad framework.
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by grayrest 17y ago
I split 75/25% client/server (Python/Pylons/Django) and find the server stuff easier. The thing about doing server development is that once it's working, it's working. On the client side, once you get it working you're only halfway there un
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by grayrest 17y ago
Do you have any plans on intra-character spacing as well? I know this is done in print to reduce the word gaps in justified text but I'm not sure if the resolution on screen would allow it. I have a  hyphenator using Liang's algori
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by grayrest 17y ago
There's no real shortage of sinatra clones for js: http://www.fabjs.org/ http://code.quirkey.com/sammy/ http://github.com/visionmedia/express/ and there's no real trick to using them: require 'express' require 'express/plugi
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by grayrest 17y ago
Is there any reason the object comprehensions can't be rewritten from: ages = (function() { __a = []; __b = years_old; for (child in __b) { age = __b[child]; if (__hasProp.call(__b, child)) { __a.
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by grayrest 17y ago
isNaN() will return true for anything that can't be coerced into a number while !(x == x) will only be true for the NaN value itself.
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by grayrest 17y ago
I'll toss in a recommendation for Mochi Media. They were very accomodating to me during my brief stint with them 2 years ago. The briefness was my doing, not theirs.
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by grayrest 17y ago
What I think every time I see the blue boxes screenshots: http://gr.ayre.st/s/images/go_flash.png

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