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by ufo 15y ago
I can assert this comic has a very appropriate alt-text
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by ufo 15y ago
HTML validation is overrated. Lots of HTML5 features, like data attributes and the shorter doctype, where there all along and just happend to be standardized now.
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by ufo 15y ago
There is also the problem of having the documentation being "split" whenever there is more then one way to do something (say declarative vs programatic widgets) or there has been a major API upgrade (say AMD modules or the ObjectStores) so
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by ufo 15y ago
Pretty starightfoward until you hit a hard-to-google for problem. Yesterday my build process was crashing because I used Windows backslashes in a command line argument instead of the Unix slashes that it expected :(
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by ufo 15y ago
The joke is that those four text editors mentioned by the student are also the result of someone one day attempting the impossible goal of creating the perfect tool.
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by ufo 15y ago
The Church-Turing thesis is not a proof - it is a definition of computability. (The thesis is that it is the reasonable definition. For all I know someone could come up with a new kind of computation that is stringer then turing machines
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by ufo 15y ago
Actually, there are already monadic interfaces for Javascript async code with widespread use. Promises! http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dojo/Deferred.html http://api.jquery.com/category/deferred-object/ new deferred objects can b
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by ufo 15y ago
His homepage has some stuff http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonpj/
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by ufo 15y ago
But you wouldn't want to refeer to copyrighted software like of of those pirates , would you?
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by ufo 15y ago
I disagree that is not inherent to Javascript. The way "this" is promiscuous among functions allows methods to be "just" function properties and is integral to prototypical inheritance. The alternative closure-based OO style also works fine
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by ufo 15y ago
...but is it really worth it to give Google a "backdoor" into your https app just because you want to load jQuery faster?
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by ufo 15y ago
At least in languages like Haskell you can use things like Monads that allow you to write the high level code and do the error routing for you behind the scenes. In C manually writing the error handling is a painful and error prone process.