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   by grayrest 17y ago

   I'll "me too" this as well, though I'm only through the first chapter and part of the second. Pacing of the book is considerably faster than Halloway's so it's convenient if you like faster paced books. I was itching for a highlighter when
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   by grayrest 17y ago

   I'll toss in my congratulations to Bob and to Jameson and Ryan as well. Ryan doesn't get a lot of credit, but he's one of the few people out there who can pull off a Web 2.0 design that's clearly identifiable as such but isn't derivative.
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   by grayrest 17y ago

   Tracemonkey and V8 are C++
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   by grayrest 17y ago

   While I like XKCD, can we not XKCD on HN? It's not like you don't see good ones posted elsewhere.
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   by grayrest 17y ago

   ~/dev -- projects I'm (semi-)actively hacking on ~/Repositories -- checkouts of dependencies and projects I'm tracking but not hacking ~/arc -- same as dev but for work
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   by grayrest 17y ago

   Monaco at 11pt on windows Droid Sans Mono at 11pt with a dotted 0: http://www.cosmix.org/software/
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   by grayrest 17y ago

   > Client-side...jQuery...nearly 7K lines The reason I only use jQuery for ajax-sprinkles apps (take a static app and make it ajaxy!) is because it provides no tools for dealing with larger size programs. I used to use MochiKit for the S
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   by grayrest 17y ago

   > Isn't there something more exciting you can do with node.js? My goal for node is to push my apps client side. Once you go all the way client side, the server only needs to serve up the static application files so that I can have them
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   by grayrest 17y ago

   This is one of two unobtrusive browser templating languages (with chain [1] being the other). They're different because they reuse existing page markup as a template, which is an unusual approach outside the XSLT world. [1] http://wiki.git
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    One of these days I'll remember that agents aren't actors, just not today.
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    Any experienced Clojure people care to comment on why atoms were used instead of agents? You don't care when the counter is incremented, just that it gets incremented, so I'd assume that an agent would model the problem more closely. Is it
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    Does the vim mode count? :)
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    I would tell him that he'll never win that argument.
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    > Are you going to maintain your fork in the future? I've been working on building a library like Narwhal's. This fork of underscore is my util.js equivalent.
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    Heya felix. It actually IS possible to get several times faster than jQuery in microbenchmarks on specific implementations when you can hit the native version for a path or something your interpreter knows how to optimize. As an example, I
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    http://clojure.org
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    > But, I'm not sure the node.js version really would scale to thousands of users. There are reports on the mailing of broadcast echo tests (which are basically the same thing) running 10k-20k concurrent users. The main problem seems to
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    I'll point out that I doubt that amount EtherPad's purchase matters to a MOZILLA editor team and that the project being from Mozilla provides at least some guard against obscurity...
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    I strongly recommend Protovis: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/ If graphael gets into shape it might be decent as well.
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    I'd pay more attention to those frameworks if you'd say why they're interesting. I consider python/ruby/perl to be sibling languages. You only really need to know one as your primary language and then steal ideas from the other two. Node is
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    > It's my opinion that JS is the new lingua franca of programming, and it's about time we replaced C/Java. Steve Yegge beat you to it: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.ht...
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-site-hierarchies-... To hell with UGA.
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    From my reading of the V8 docs, the hidden class climbing is done when properties are added to the class. Each added property causes a transition to the next hidden class. The final hidden class has all the properties as offsets and a faile
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    This is the primary advantage of the ivy league schools. If your goal is hacking, there isn't a lot that you'll learn at school that you wouldn't self study. Aside from meeting people, the primary advantage of college is providing an accoun
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    Event driven JS tends to go spaghetti really quickly unless you're using a good events framework. The yui3 and sproutcore frameworks are pretty close to opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of philosophy, but both have very well defined p
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    by grayrest 17y ago

    Note that `let` was introduced in Javascript 1.7 and is not available in other browser implementations.