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by wycats 15y ago
In general, you can use explicit argument passing or closing over what you need . I tend to use closures to get information from my current scope to a callback, although that doesn't always work in heavily object-oriented code.
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Understanding JavaScript function invocation and "this"(yehudakatz.com)
100 points by wycats 15y ago|9 comments
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by wycats 15y ago
WebSQLDB isn't really a "standard". The standard is "whatever version of sqlite safari happened to ship with" which is really not a tenable long-term solution.
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SproutCore 2.0 Beta 3 Released(blog.sproutcore.com)
45 points by wycats 15y ago|6 comments
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by wycats 15y ago
That's actually not at all what Majd is saying. He's saying that a few good answers with a large community is better than dozens of one-off weekend projects that siphon energy from application developers and open source contributors.
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by wycats 15y ago
FWIW, I think Backbone is an example of a library that does things right: it's well-maintained, has an awesome community, and a whole ecosystem of plugins and extensions around it. It's the Backbone copycats that drive me crazy.
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by wycats 15y ago
It's a developer preview. I've seen people around here talking about dumping IE entirely if a sufficiently small number of their users used IE8. How is this different?
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by wycats 15y ago
Nah. I think Majd was just saying that we've been thinking about a lot of the problems for a while.
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by wycats 15y ago
I'd be interested to see how a better-implemented, properly optimized pure-Ruby version would perform.
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by wycats 15y ago
I know, right?
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by wycats 15y ago
Why do you want Module#mix in favor of Module#prepend. The former introduces a whole new system for mixins alongside the old one, while the latter simply makes the existing system work for extending existing classes (a first-class, no cavea
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by wycats 15y ago
José Valim has written a book[1] that shows how to swap in all manner of functionality into Rails 3. It covers alternate renderers (PDF), alternate models, alternate template stores (SQL), custom template engines, using the built-in notific
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by wycats 15y ago
It appears as though the purpose of CSSLint is to promote the ideas of OOCSS, without the bother of defending OOCSS.
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by wycats 15y ago
You can get some raw data from Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=United+States%2C+United...
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by wycats 15y ago
Similarly, it's become possible for children to become Type II diabetics, which coincides with a massive increase in obesity (probably both caused by a root cause).
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by wycats 15y ago
There's a wide difference in overall sugar intake between the US and countries in Europe. US: 152 lbs. per capita UK: 80 lbs. per capita Canada: 117 lbs. per capita Russia: 112 lbs. per capita France: 79 lbs. per capita You can play aroun
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by wycats 15y ago
HFCS and regular sugar have a very similar proportion of glucose:fructose. The kind of HFCS used in soft drinks is 55% fructose and 42% glucose, while sucrose (sugar) is 50% fructose and 50% glucose. The kind of HFCS used in baked products
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by wycats 15y ago
The problem with HFCS is not its biological impact. It's the economic impact. By heavily subsidizing corn, we have made sugar (via HFCS) incredibly cheap, which makes it easy to use as an additive.
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by wycats 15y ago
YARV was an external fork that was integrated into MRI pretty early, and then worked on by the core team for several years. My point was simply that YARV's existence and the commitment of the core team to get it into core (and the resulting
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by wycats 15y ago
Benchmarks on ActiveRecord before the work Aaron did on Arel (which was dropped in in 3.0.x due to the magnitude of the perfect issue/improvement) are not totally relevant today. There are still some issues, but there is still low-hanging-f
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by wycats 15y ago
I didn't quit the Rails Core team ( http://rubyonrails.org/core ). I no longer work full-time on Rails, but I've been continuing to work with other members of the Rails core team on maintaining code I wrote (most notably encoding-related co
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by wycats 15y ago
Looks like they're using HTML5 microdata: http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/
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by wycats 15y ago
It would also be relatively trivial to convert a Rails app in the first week of development into a Sinatra app, or even a statically generated HTML app. Says nothing about whether it's a very good idea.
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by wycats 15y ago
Just FYI: the version of SproutCore being used here is SproutCore 2.0 developer preview, which made aggressive use of new browser features, but missed a couple of places to polyfill. Those places are now plugged, mostly due to this exercise
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Gem Versioning and Bundler: Doing it Right(yehudakatz.com)
5 points by wycats 15y ago|1 comments
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by wycats 15y ago
Also, microjs is limited to JavaScript frameworks under 5k, and without dependencies.
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by wycats 15y ago
Check it out at http://todos20.strobeapp.com/
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by wycats 15y ago
Having contributed to a number of open source projects in the past, I definitely feel the pain. In order to help people get up to speed with SproutCore, we just released a four-part screencast and guide for contributing to the various parts
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by wycats 16y ago
which demos are you looking at?
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by wycats 16y ago
When I hear "open source", I think "developed in the open". While projects that occasionally dump source can be technically called "open source", they don't look at all like the open source projects I like to work or or with.

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