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by marijn 18y ago
And just today, I had to fix a Firefox bug where the cursor in an editable document would be displayed in the wrong place. Note that this is purely visual -- it acted as if it were in a different place than it showed. Good luck detecting th
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by marijn 18y ago
In general, I agree. Unfortunately, detecting some bugs is either a lot of work or almost impossible -- you can't, for example, generate DOM events programatically, so bugs in event handling are very tricky to test for. On the bright side,
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by marijn 18y ago
Where does it say it is going to make money?
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by marijn 18y ago
Ah, yes, but how do we know you weren't traumatically teased by the author in high school and are now stalking him online and trying to discredit him with vague insinuations? Huh?
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by marijn 18y ago
Okay, help me out here, I really wanted to down-vote you but I have no downward arrows. Yet your negative score suggests that there really is a down-vote feature. Do only people with lots of karma get to downvote?
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by marijn 18y ago
Seconded. Africa is a bit of an opaque, far-off place to a lot of us, but the idea of going over there and sharing some skills definitely appeals to me.
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Learn to program without leaving the browser window: Eloquent JavaScript(eloquentjavascript.net)
8 points by marijn 18y ago|1 comments
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by marijn 18y ago
Also, Lisp lacks a standard? Huh? Care to elaborate on that? I mean sure, CL's standard is older than some dinosaurs, and Scheme's standard is currently rather controversial, but both have standards. Especially in the case of CL, there's li
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by marijn 18y ago
Good place to learn JavaScript: http://eloquentjavascript.net
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by marijn 19y ago
You can fake tail calls with window.setTimeout(continuation, 0)
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by marijn 19y ago
That is not a global variable, it is a closed-over variable, which, in terms of self-containedness, is a whole different beast. See also http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/cps/ .
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by marijn 19y ago
About line numbers -- the people of TYPO3 did add them to their branch (though they made a bit of a mess in the process), and it seems most other in-browser code-editors support them, but I've never really seen their utility. Something like
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by marijn 19y ago
I (author of the thing, didn't submit the link here) did do some polishing and commenting on the code recently -- the last time it was submitted here it was in a bit of a write-only state.