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by joshuacc 14y ago
In addition to node-webkit, I believe the app code itself is written in ClojureScript (a compile-to-js dialect of Clojure.)
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Yep. If you examine the source of this game that's exactly how they handle the game itself.
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I believe he means preprocessors like Sass, Less, or Stylus.
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by joshuacc 14y ago
Regarding #2, I highly recommend reading Trevor Burnham's excellent book Async JavaScript . It goes into a great deal of detail explaining how async operations work, and ways of dealing with them.
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Nor does one have to when using JavaScript. Crockford's recommendations are a good starting point for new JS developers, but they're not the word of God on the subject.
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Very few things have been "proven" in the sense you are talking about. People still have to make judgments about them anyway. By and large, most developers seem to have concluded that syntax highlighting helps them in some way. Possible rea
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Writing Testable Frontend Javascript Part 2 – Refactor away anti-patterns(shanetomlinson.com)
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How to Avoid Agility(blog.toolshed.com)
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Unit testing in AsciiDoc(jspatterns.com)
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Should email be 99.9% typography, too?(campaignmonitor.com)
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> cached phrases I think you mean "catchphrases."
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A commitment to the Catholic priesthood is not a commitment to being poor. It is possible for a very wealthy man to become a priest while retaining his personal wealth, because the Church has no hard and fast rules on the subject. Religio
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Github: Your Single Point Of Failure(brandonsavage.net)
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I'm a Zurb Foundation user, as well as a Bootstrap user and they both have their sweet spots. Bootstrap is great for internal tools and applications that don't need a ton of customization. Foundation on the other hand is extremely customiza
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by joshuacc 14y ago
For those who were asking about an archive page, here it is! http://designpepper.com/js-drip-archive
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Pixel Art Tutorial(makegames.tumblr.com)
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Fun with JavaScript Numbers(jspro.com)
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To be fair, a country's constitution must also be interpreted. That's why things like Supreme Court rulings are so important. The SC gets to decide, "What this amendment means is..."
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> news like this would have a huge impact on their faith. Not necessarily. Non-believers often underestimate the intellectual sophistication that one can find in religious traditions. For instance, Augustine in the 4th century was alrea
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Advice for Up and Coming Front-End Developers(esbueno.noahstokes.com)
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Chrome on Win 7: http://screencast.com/t/S6OTjtWpKI
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> I'll play with that and see. I can't think of any other language where this might matter. CoffeeScript as well, if I recall the indentation rules correctly.
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I specified that #2 is sometimes necessary for a specific end (distinctive design). You seem to be arguing that one should never seek that end. I disagree, but that's an entirely different argument.
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For this particular problem, it doesn't matter whether the site is serving "plain HTML" if the CSS specifies a webfont that the user doesn't already have. So you have two alternatives for a good experience: 1. Use only fonts users have prei
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by joshuacc 14y ago
A lot of this can also be alleviated by being smart about using a web app's login screen to preload resources that will be needed on subsequent screens, as well. It's relatively simple to include a bit of JavaScript on the login page to fet
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by joshuacc 14y ago
I'm not sure why you think Github Issues isn't a bug reporting system. From what I have seen, that's its main purpose. Sure, you can do a pull request instead, but most of the time people just report issues to the maintainers without provid
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by joshuacc 14y ago
I'm using grunt.js (0.4) with grunt-contrib-jasmine to test my front end JS on the command line in phantomjs (headless webkit). If you also use grunt-contrib-watch, you can have this happen every time you save your source/specs. Example: h
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Back to Basics: JavaScript Hoisting(jspro.com)
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I'm planning to do something like that in the near future.
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That's not strictly true. Homeopathic remedies do often include small amounts of alcohol or sugar.

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