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by marijn 16y ago
Needs more Eloquent JavaScript.
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by marijn 16y ago
Not if you actually, you know, know what you're doing. This dumbing down of programming does not work--if you have clueless people working on code, it'll end up broken, no matter how many tool-enforced 'best practices' they follow.
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by marijn 16y ago
Well, HN can be hard to predict. My coupon-code-including submission two weeks ago [1] hardly got to the front page at all, yet this one does great. Oh, well, I'm not complaining! Thanks for submitting. (The coupon code is no longer valid,
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by marijn 16y ago
A wide ebook formats will be available from http://nostarch.com/ejs.htm in a week or so. (They have an external party doing the conversions, which is apparently taking his time.)
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by marijn 16y ago
Update: the offer actually goes until the 25th, not the 21st.
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by marijn 16y ago
> Would you recommend your book as a first programming book for designers that want to learn to code? Yes. Though if you want immediate results, EJS might not be quite as practical as you'd like -- it tries to find a middle way between
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Hacker news gets 40% off on Eloquent JavaScript
22 points by marijn 16y ago|8 comments
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by marijn 16y ago
There's no space! Actually, I tried to make this an exercise in minimal, button-poor, intuitive UI design. I'm quite pleased with how simple the thing is, but I guess it's not intuitive to everybody.
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by marijn 16y ago
Pro tip: Go straight for ECMAScript 5, don't waste your time on 3. With CL-JavaScript ( http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/cl-javascript ) we also thought 3 would be easier, but now we regret our decision: - The ECMA5 document is (slightly) easier t
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by marijn 16y ago
Since my http://eloquentjavascript.net recommends always terminating statements with semicolons, I guess I'm being directly addressed by this. The suggestion that 'I don't understand semicolon insertion' doesn't really hit the mark. I wro
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by marijn 16y ago
They provide e-mail addresses over their regular web interface as well. That's why the e-mail field in the account settings says '(publicly visible!)'. This guy is not outing a dangerous, unknown vulnerability—he's just making it a little b
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by marijn 16y ago
Thanks for the promotion. Made my morning.
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by marijn 16y ago
http://eloquentjavascript.net/Eloquent%20JavaScript.zip (sorry)
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by marijn 16y ago
Can you tell me which version you're using? I'm also not seeing any problems (in version 6), but I'd like to figure out what's happening for you.
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by marijn 16y ago
Can anyone recommend something that can be ordered in Europe (Germany) without paying a fortune in shipping costs?
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by marijn 18y ago
Exactly. All I could find in the article was vague naysaying. (Which, actually, seems to be the general tone of most of his posts.) Having a new decent browser that does a few innovative things is good. It won't solve the Internet's problem
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by marijn 18y ago
The current object model is theoretically more powerful than class-based objects, but no one has found a way to implement it very efficiently yet. Thus, for performance, it would be nice to have a more static alternative. (Though I suppose
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by marijn 18y ago
Arguably, there wasn't any copycat Java nonsense in ECMA 4. And even if there was any, it was all entirely optional. (And if you're allocating a huge number of x,y coordinate objects, it would be kind of nice to use specialised two-field ob
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by marijn 18y ago
Just treat it like Netscape 4 or Lynx or whatever -- try to display something meaningful, but don't bother about getting all the details to work entirely right.
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by marijn 18y ago
Which book are you referring to? Googling brought me right back to this very comment.
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by marijn 18y ago
I don't think anyone who knows anything about Kafka sees him as a 'saintly' type. But then, this kind of journalism doesn't typically let reality get in the way of a good story twist.
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by marijn 18y ago
Randomly hating on mac users isn't all that creative either. (Disclosure: I'm not a mac user.)
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by marijn 18y ago
Unicodoth, rather.
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by marijn 18y ago
Not to mention that, even when you state something as obvious as 2 + 2 equals 4, some anxious amateur editor will add a [citation needed], along with a few other deprecating warnings.
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by marijn 18y ago
http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/upload/screen.png (XMonad, so all you see is emacs. Big font because my laptop has small pixels and I have bad eyes. If anyone can recommend a better program font than Luxi Mono (O and 0 indistinguishable, bold
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by marijn 18y ago
The point that this can be done as a separate, server side processing phase has merit. Too bad it had to be wrapped in a ridiculously long, patronising article, containing such gems as the observation that style-sheets are rarely longer tha
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by marijn 18y ago
Upvoted you, since I can't downvote the article. Anyway, I really need to work on pronouncing a clear programmer personality. Am I a hippy? Am I a nerd? I'm so confused. I just hope I'm not a lumpenprogrammer!
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by marijn 18y ago
I was sorting a list, actually. Using an array + some type declarations I got .45 seconds.
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by marijn 18y ago
Like almost all rules in that list, this seems way too broad -- often enough it makes more sense to pass some more primitive value, even if you get it from a property.
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by marijn 18y ago
Exactly. You don't get progress without arrogant bastards re-inventing things every now and then. Overeager re-inventing is often a recipe for disaster, but categorically dismissing it is too simple.

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