twykke

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by twykke 9y ago
having used Coffeescript almost exclusively (in the Node.js world) for something like 6 years, async/await was the only feature i have been gnashing my teeth waiting for, but i wasn't even that impatient because i have also been u
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by twykke 9y ago
i tend to use an explicit return except in one-line functions; there are plenty of CS features you can forgo if you don't think they benefit you.
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by twykke 9y ago
list comprehensions was exactly what i was talking about :) however i replace them with lodash and ramda, which benefit enormously from CS's lambda syntax
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by twykke 9y ago
some colleagues of mine have complained about the significant whitespace being difficult to understand. i can't argue with something subjective like that. however i like to point that our entire codebase, CS, JS, TS, Python, Java, Swi
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by twykke 9y ago
i also don't use CoffeeScript because of any 'feature' it has over standard JS but instead because of its concise but expressive syntax. it's less about what it does have/do, and more about what it doesn't h
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by twykke 9y ago
spread some love for moonscript (and its inspiration coffeescript of course, my daily bread-and-butter) - to my mind the best possible syntax for a (dynamic) programming language. python being second place. is it possible to get a tattoo w
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by twykke 11y ago
all our opsworks servers have been unreachable from the internet since around 05:13Z when we see a mysterious 'configure' command with no further details in the opsworks logs EDIT: they are in EU-West zone btw
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by twykke 13y ago
Can we all agree that the amount of humans which the Earth's (mass/surface area/volume/energy/environment/resources/what-have-you) can support is finite? Can we also agree that the ideal number of humans