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by marijn 13y ago
I exchanged a few emails with an underfunded high school teacher in Louisiana who was using the book to teach his students programming. Hence the reference.
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by marijn 13y ago
Odd. Is your screen huge? Your machine slow? Anyway, I've made it so that the bitmaps are hidden when the animation is disabled, since they are the most likely candidate for making scrolling slow.
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by marijn 13y ago
I'm the author of Eloquent JS, so I'm far from unbiased, but the main difference in my mind is that The Good Parts is very spartan and extremely prescriptive in what you should do and, especially, what you should never do, where
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by marijn 13y ago
That's a good point. I'll spend some time learning about ES6 features and their SpiderMonkey/V8 support status.
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by marijn 13y ago
ECMAScript 6 is out of scope for now, since even when the spec is released, it'll take a while for it to become practical to actually program in.
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by marijn 13y ago
Nope. I visited there once (some of my father's cousins emigrated to Brazil 40 years ago) and did recently receive an email from a reader in Belo Horizonte.
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by marijn 13y ago
Good idea. Done.
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by marijn 13y ago
You're right. Seems some recent change in FF upped their requestAnimationFrame fire rate, or I made some change since I last tested it that causes the slowdown. In any case, try to refresh, should be smoother now (I've added a mec
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by marijn 13y ago
If you watch really closely, they even 'mate' and lay eggs. And yes, it's a huge cpu hog. But it will pause when you unfocus/hide the page.
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by marijn 13y ago
Hah, okay. That wasn't the intention at all. Why did it creep you out? Do you have a particular problem with little crawly animals?
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by marijn 13y ago
I feel kind of bad about the fact that they initially didn't enable paypal donations, but enabled them a few hours after I suggested they do. I might be responsible. My own smaller (16k) indiegogo campaign went completely over paypal w
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by marijn 13y ago
A factor I think the article doesn't point out clearly enough is how the main attraction of dissing code is that it serves as an ego-defense mechanism. Understanding code is, almost without exception, challenging. It's much easier
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by marijn 13y ago
Organizations like EFF and ACLU are extremely impressive—they are one of the very few effective actors that actually seem to be able to strike blows at the current wave of authoritarian madness. I wish their German and European counterparts
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by marijn 13y ago
Actually, some of the posters from Die Grünen (Green Party) have a rather personal taste to them. See [1], which shows Merkel and Röstler (figureheads of the current ruling parties) with the caption "It's always someone else'
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by marijn 13y ago
Finding a balance between paralyzingly complicated processes and having to trust single employees with all of your secrets is not easy. I think that's great, since it helps discourage organizations from doing the kind of things that mo
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by marijn 13y ago
That's not quite accurate, as other comments pointed out. But even if no German resident ever used a credit card, the significance of this is that German-based merchants can start using Stripe to accept Internet payments from people al
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by marijn 13y ago
They've been talking about this for more than a year. Not sure if that qualifies as quick. That being said, it's awesome that they got there—I got into the Dutch beta and can say the process of dealing with Stripe is an order of m
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by marijn 13y ago
Linux doesn't appear in the English version of that page, but it does in the German one that they are serving me (ignoring accept-lang, geolocating my IP, I guess)
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by marijn 13y ago
Depends entirely on the project, of course. But putting up demos, preferably as web pages, if that's not possible as a binary, tends to be a great way to show the world what you're doing. Open-source of course makes it easier (jus
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by marijn 13y ago
> you should probably not think in terms of the release that ends the project Yes. I want to stress this some more. I know several people who are/were working on big ambitious projects in a kind of stealth mode, citing concerns that
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by marijn 13y ago
Whenever I see this kind of poorly-informed bashing of the Mozilla team (always mentioning "the memory leaks") I can't help but wonder how the author would do building and maintaining a piece of software as big and complex as
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by marijn 13y ago
See also Rust's emphasis on zero-cost abstractions [1]. The current compiler doesn't emphasize specialization (though it does specialize generics), but the ability to abstract in source code without leaving any trace in the actual
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by marijn 13y ago
This has been driving in the ~1000 hits per month range to http://eloquentjavascript.net for ages. Since that's just one link in the huge list, I guess lots of people are landing on it.
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by marijn 13y ago
A nice touch is that the list of supported systems includes "Linux" (which I'm on), but I still get this message. My navigator.platform is "Linux x86_64", not sure how they are misinterpreting that.
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by marijn 13y ago
If it's a recent version of Firefox, the "use asm" in [1] probably explains the difference. [1]: http://alexey.radul.name/ideas/2013/cleverness-of-compilers/...
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by marijn 13y ago
JavaScript functions have identity, so creating anonymous functions, even if they don't close over anything, actually requires a garbage-collected object to be allocated, rather than just creating a pointer to a piece of code. Doing th
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by marijn 13y ago
My thought process went something like 'That's cute. Should I bother? Guess not—it's Google, very unlikely to last long.' Seems they may have a reputation problem.
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by marijn 13y ago
Look at https://github.com/pcwalton/zero.rs . It's not very far yet, but it proves that it is viable to run Rust without a runtime.
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by marijn 13y ago
That's hard to say until they actually release documentation. When I first noticed it [1] 10 months ago, it seemed very flaky and slow, but it appears to have improved a lot in the meantime. [1]: https://twitter.com/mar
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by marijn 13y ago
I find the cult of ' oh my god you can redefine undefined ' hilarious. Yes, you can. You can also redefine Array , Object , and so on. If you're writing a script to intentionally disrupt a system, for(;;); will

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