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Client-side tip: make sensible scripting APIs for all your GUI objects, and thin event handlers to bind user input to these APIs.
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The most convenient unit for measuring my current level of sleep deprivation would, experts agree, be the metric fuckton.
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Coming round to the idea that you should design for async first. Once you go synchronous you can't go back.
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I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that requiring specific versions of software dependencies is a twelve-tonne clusterfuck of an idea.
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The projections of Dr Futamura: http://is.gd/94lH5. Does anyone have experience writing compilers vs. specializers? Which is easier?
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My ideal language: JavaScript, + Ruby's arrays, hashes + "fn" instead of "function" and optional "return" for final expression.
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There's still too much JS literature that treats programmers as kiddies and views any kind of modelling as "architecture astronautism".
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JavaScript API tip: if a method takes a function as a parameter, it should also take a call scope. e.g. see Array#forEach http://is.gd/8NjZN
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Dear spammers: would you paint your manipulative bullshit all over my house? No? Hunh. What makes my blog different?
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