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Marc Clifton wrote: int initializeToZero() {return 0;}
I need to take that as a dependency for a new library I'm working on, but I'll send you a pull request for 20 updated versions (to return 0f, 0x0, ..., and of course, "zero").
TTFN - Kent
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Marc Clifton wrote: Do you have a GitHub account?
I've actually be asked that before. Because you know, if you're not on GitHub, you have cancer and suck as a person. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm more on the "no frameworks" bandwagon now. If you want it done well, do it yourself.
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Camilo Reyes wrote: I'm more on the "no frameworks" bandwagon
I agree with you. However, here's a counter-point. I really think the problem is that a lot of people use frameworks just because they are there and don't know why they use them.
And, what about just the selector stuff from jQuery?
You got to admit that the selector stuff on it's own is nice, right? Right? 
document.getElementById("first").innerHTML = "super stuff";
The original is kind of long and ugly.
$("#first").text("super stuff");
Plus, it's so much easier to select by class and it works in various browsers and browser versions.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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Excellent point. jQuery I feel has taken me down the wrong path, specifically around unit testability. Say:
$('#first').text('stuff');
It looks nice, but how do I unit test this? How about:
function fillWithStuff(el) {
el.innerHTML = 'stuff';
}
The beauty here is I have a testable component. This testable component is not tight-coupled to the DOM. All I need is a simple mock like
{}
So:
function testMyStuff() {
var mock = {};
fillWithStuff(mock);
console.log(mock.innerHTML === 'stuff');
}()
Yea jQuery is cool and all. But I once looked at the code I was writing and couldn't stop seeing where it was taking me. I like writing modules I can test in isolation that aren't tightly-coupled to any DOM. JavaScript is way more beautiful like that. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What if we had a great standard library in JavaScript?
Now, just how do you think that makes John Resig* feel when he reads that headline? You got a lot of 'splainin to do. 
*Creator of jQuery (THE STANDARDEST of standard libs for JavaScript). Just because people call it a framework, don't mean it ain't a library. 
You obviously need some sensitivity training before you continue these blurbs.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke). 
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..it would still be JavaScript 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I can't believe you put the words "great" and "javascript" into the same sentence.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It’s time to go back, re-examine the 23 patterns (and, possibly, a few variants) with a fresh set of eyes, match them up against languages which have had 20 years to mature, and see what emerges. "I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
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The importance Microsoft puts on font is great to see, especially because while fonts are an important aspect of written or typed work, the digital space is where most new text resides, like within an app. Comic Sans... everywhere!
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Uh, if I can't read your font, because I cannot see it, then it's Microsoft and it's Segoe UI Light.
Great font use, Microsoft. Almost as good as your Win10 upgrades!!
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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A few people have names that can utterly confuse the websites they visit, and it makes their life online quite the headache. Why does it happen? null != 'null'
Or is this a duck typing problem?
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Unlucky?
That would be totally 1337, bro!
I am the Artist Formerly Know As �
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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Uhm, can you spell that?
TTFN - Kent
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The "Null" issue looks to me to be a Flex and/or Cold Fusion problem. Java/C#/Javascript would have no issue with it.
So it's not really a problem for programmers, it's just a problem for designers trying to pass themselves off as programmers.
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Must be related to Mr Null[^], who we didn't believe last November. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Microsoft Research is working on a 3D communications technology that simulates teleportation using the HoloLens augmented-reality glasses that it has dubbed 'Holoportation.' "Truly outrageous"
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I guarantee that this is going to revolutionize transportation even more than Dean Kamen's Segway.
And that was a total revolutionary revolution of maximal proportions.
You know it was. 
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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There has been no epoch-breaking technological leap in transport that comes to anything when compared to the mighty Sinclair C5[^].
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That thing is actually very cool. However, the design of the placement of the steering device looks extremely odd. That may be what killed it.
Also, it looks like the motor technology used in it is very similar (maybe the launchpad) to modern electric cars. Very interesting. Never heard of that before here in the US. Thanks for sharing.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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Personally, I think the fact that you would be pretty well invisible to most traffic, and un the fumes of vehicles around you, didn't help much either. I believe most of them ended up as runarounds in theme parks, which was probably a good thing. Would love to try one.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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With Live Tiles, Microsoft has promised much but delivered little. This could be about to change. Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
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They could push something incredible out to live tiles tomorrow, and it's doubtful I'd notice before the end of the year even though I use W10 at home.
0) Reboot PC (after patch Tuesday)
1) Mash a half dozen shortcuts on my taskbar. (Probably should just add them to the startup folder, but I can't be elephanted...)
2) Launch an occasional game via Steam (either the client or the tray icon).
3) Once or twice per month: Start button + search text + enter. This's the only time I have the start menu open; but my eyes are on the left edge where the searchbox/results are and not paying attention to any of the live tiles to the right.
4) Patch Tuesday, time to reboot.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Social engineering and ‘download this attachment’ scams are back – as if they ever left – and working better than ever, unfortunately. We should get rid of them all
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Microsoft apologizes for her behavior and talks about what went wrong. Watch and learn, Siri: this is what happens when you cross us
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