jashkenas

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   by jashkenas 17y ago

   Thanks for the suggestion, Simon -- It's done. The Underscore page now has the download for version 0.1.1, with a noConflict function that returns the "_" variable to its previous value. var myUnderscore = _.noConflict();
2. 1832.▲
   by jashkenas 17y ago

   Yep -- that one is questionable. It's there to provide symmetry with "_.last", which is definitely more convenient than: array[array.length - 1];
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   by jashkenas 17y ago

   Underscore isn't tied to jQuery either. It just complements it nicely. Oliver Steele's Functional is a great library too, and bits of Underscore were inspired by it. The main difference between the parts they have in common is that Function
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   by jashkenas 17y ago

   Quick Summary: Underscore provides all the functional programming goodies that you would expect with Prototype.js or Ruby, but without extending any core javascript objects, so it can fit hand-in-hand with jQuery. In Javascript 1.6 complian
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   Underscore.js: Functional Programming for jQuery(documentcloud.github.com)

   117 points by jashkenas 17y ago|35 comments
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   by jashkenas 17y ago

   Here it is in Ruby. LISP_METH = /^c[ad]+r$/ def method_missing(name, *args) meth = name.to_s raise NoMethodError, "undefined method '#{name}'" unless meth =~ LISP_METH list = args.first calls = meth.split('')[1..-2
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   by jashkenas 17y ago

   Yes, you're quite right -- sorry for the omission. The worker daemons (via the Daemons gem) use Kernel.fork and UNIX signals for management, neither of which are really supported on Windows. There's a decent chance that Cygwin will work.
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   by jashkenas 17y ago

   Clickable Link: http://wiki.github.com/documentcloud/cloud-crowd Blog Announcement: http://www.documentcloud.org/blog/2009/09/14/cloudcrowd-para...
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   MapReduce-inspired: A Parallel Processing System for the Rest of Us (Ruby)

   18 points by jashkenas 17y ago|5 comments
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    by jashkenas 19y ago

    Works on Mac, Windows and Linux. Using interactive Ruby (via-jirb), you can do Live Coding, redefining your methods and classes as you go.
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    Processing has been the Canvas of Choice for Artistic Programming: Introducing Ruby-Processing.(the-shoebox.org)

    10 points by jashkenas 19y ago|3 comments
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    Shoes, a Ruby GUI toolkit, now has some sweet apps.(the-shoebox.org)

    9 points by jashkenas 19y ago|1 comments