skilldrick

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JavaScript, JSON and modern web MVC(skilldrick.co.uk)
3 points by skilldrick 15y ago|0 comments
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The end of progressive enhancement revisited(skilldrick.co.uk)
1 points by skilldrick 15y ago|0 comments
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JavaScript and the end of progressive enhancement(skilldrick.co.uk)
9 points by skilldrick 15y ago|0 comments
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by skilldrick 15y ago
Haha I love "little laptop pixies" :) That's exactly what I was talking about. I think I'm going to have to get this TECS book (no pun intended) - it sounds just what I'm after. Need to finish SICP first though :P Not enough hours in the da
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by skilldrick 15y ago
Interesting. Yes, I came a similar route - no CS background. I read ESR's TAOUT [0], which assumes quite a high level of Unix knowledge - I'd love a book at that level! [0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/index.html
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by skilldrick 15y ago
Wow, those sound very interesting. I've been toying with the idea of a series of blog posts (or possibly even a separate site) that give a bottom-up explanation of all the stacks we work with - starting with electronics => circuits =&#6
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by skilldrick 15y ago
That's kind of my point - you need to accept the 'magic' you're given, at least for the time being. I feel a bit uncomfortable leaving it at that though, I always want to know how things are working. But it's not essential.
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by skilldrick 15y ago
Just so people know, I'm not talking Rails magic here - more the idea that there's stuff we don't understand that's going on that to all intents and purposes is magic. In other words: > anything below your current level of abstraction
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Magic in software development(skilldrick.co.uk)
37 points by skilldrick 15y ago|21 comments
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by skilldrick 15y ago
Crazy! Yeah, Metaprogramming Ruby is on my wishlist. I understand why the rules in Ruby are complicated - it's to make the common case simpler. But I still like the simplicity of JavaScript.
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by skilldrick 15y ago
Thanks, and a really interesting perspective. I find Ruby's rules on scope (and pretty much anything) pretty confusing. I really like the way Ruby does a lot of things, but it doesn't have simple rules like JS.
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Closures explained with JavaScript(skilldrick.co.uk)
4 points by skilldrick 15y ago|4 comments
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Seven steps towards becoming a professional developer(skilldrick.co.uk)
8 points by skilldrick 16y ago|2 comments
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JQuery vs DOM return false;(skilldrick.co.uk)
1 points by skilldrick 16y ago|0 comments
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A short word on nomenclature(skilldrick.co.uk)
1 points by skilldrick 16y ago|0 comments
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by skilldrick 16y ago
I added this to the post in the end - on reflection I think you're right that it's worth mentioning.
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by skilldrick 16y ago
Yes, I nearly put that in, but it didn't feel right. I've only given a very basic introduction to the language - the purpose of the blog was to teach the language rather than give its history. Not quite - "Several brainfuck compilers have b
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by skilldrick 16y ago
Yeah, you're right about the cells usually being bytes. I followed the "spec" far enough for it to be a compliant implementation, but its fairly quick-and-dirty, and will probably break on more advanced programs.
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by skilldrick 16y ago
Cheers :) Just give it half an hour...
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Why you should learn brainfuck (or: learn you a brainfuck for great good)(skilldrick.co.uk)
7 points by skilldrick 16y ago|8 comments
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by skilldrick 16y ago
The point of an IIFE is that it is immediately invoked, i.e.: `(function () { })()` - the outer function is used to return the inner function at that point. So you're returning the inner function, and it's this function, a closure, that is
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Zen and the art of statefulness(skilldrick.co.uk)
4 points by skilldrick 16y ago|3 comments
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Really really simple Ruby metaprogramming(skilldrick.co.uk)
3 points by skilldrick 16y ago|0 comments
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Ruby vs JavaScript: functions, Procs, blocks and lambdas(skilldrick.co.uk)
2 points by skilldrick 16y ago|0 comments
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Clearing up the confusion around JavaScript references (with cats)(skilldrick.co.uk)
2 points by skilldrick 16y ago|0 comments
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A brief introduction to closures, using JavaScript(skilldrick.co.uk)
1 points by skilldrick 16y ago|0 comments
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Avoiding religion in programming(skilldrick.co.uk)
3 points by skilldrick 16y ago|0 comments
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by skilldrick 17y ago
Of course! I take it all back.
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by skilldrick 17y ago
I don't understand why a Lisp hacker wouldn't match parens properly when ending a parenthetical statement with a smiley: (commentless, of course :) Hasn't he seen xkcd: http://xkcd.com/541/ ?