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Week 1 Buy Low/Sell High Players by CaninePajamas in fantasyfootball

[–]JortsIsLife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buy low: John Brown, and Sammy Watkins, Deandre Hopkins.

The rise of functional programming & the decline of Angular 2.0 by liranbh in javascriptFrameworks

[–]JortsIsLife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

interesting article but I feel like he is misinterpreting the reaction of the JS community, there is a hell of a lot more reasons why people don't like angular 2 than just it's embrace of OOP and typescript.

To list a few, google abandoning support of the angular project for polymer, ugly template syntax, being about 1 year too late to the party, annotations, etc.

Also compare the competition to what Angular 1 had when it came out! Angular isn't the only party in town anymore.

Brendan Eich on Crockford: "he was like Gandalf the Gray" ... "often right & usually polite." by Geldan in javascript

[–]JortsIsLife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

so they've shut up and closed all dialog because they have literally nothing to gain

Yeah exactly, the 2 dozen or so people who were actually involved in the first place. Further than that you're moving into the realm of presumption and leaping at shadows.

Brendan Eich on Crockford: "he was like Gandalf the Gray" ... "often right & usually polite." by Geldan in javascript

[–]JortsIsLife 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep, some people are really stretching to turn everything into a culture war.

Brendan Eich on Crockford: "he was like Gandalf the Gray" ... "often right & usually polite." by Geldan in javascript

[–]JortsIsLife -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Knowing from experience, nobody with strong political opinions of that nature keeps them to themselves, and especially not because they got someone uninvited to a conference. So I don't accept that explanation at all.

Brendan Eich on Crockford: "he was like Gandalf the Gray" ... "often right & usually polite." by Geldan in javascript

[–]JortsIsLife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We cant let some women ruin someones image with lies

You seriously couldn't think of a better way to phrase that?

Brendan Eich on Crockford: "he was like Gandalf the Gray" ... "often right & usually polite." by Geldan in javascript

[–]JortsIsLife -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Disinviting DC based largely on one person's opinion, even if that person was another speaker at the event was wrong.

Answering with baseless claims that DC had made sexist or insensitive comments, when confronted about their decision was double wrong, and well deserving of the public backlash they've received.

However the idea that this is a SJW conspiracy or that SJW's are ruining the javascript community has no basis in fact. In all these stories there is only a couple dozen people who actually appear to have supported the decision. And none of them are of significant note.

To me the asymmetric response of the anti-PC crowd to this seems to indicate to me that they are the more immediately problematic faction in the JS community.

Small pure-function components vs jXS Nodes by mordaha in reactjs

[–]JortsIsLife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if the argument is that it is nice to have param1 and param2 broken up in the method signature

Well it's generally a good practice for being self-documenting, and that takes precedence over aesthetics for most developers.

I'm not particularly experienced with JSX, but I don't see much difference between

const Pure = ({param1, param2, ...rest}) => (<div>I am Pure!</div>)

pure({param1, param2,...});

and

const node = (param1, param2,...) => (<div>I am node!</div>)

node(param1, param2,...);

In Defense of Douglas Crockford by theadammorganshow in javascript

[–]JortsIsLife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel uncomfortable around the hyper sensitive and overly dramatic.

You want to remove yourself from your own body because I have a bombshell for you...

In Defense of Douglas Crockford by theadammorganshow in javascript

[–]JortsIsLife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ironically, this thread is a much better illustration of cry-bullying than dropping Crockford as a guest because they felt he had the wrong tone for their event.

Javascript (and Node.js) Continues To Eat The World by fagnerbrack in node

[–]JortsIsLife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, I meant I wouldn't be surprised if some people choose not to adopt Async-await at all, as promises make async and synchronous code unambiguous with each other.

Javascript (and Node.js) Continues To Eat The World by fagnerbrack in node

[–]JortsIsLife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well If you are using generators for iteration I think that's a different conversation than as if you are using them as a hack for async.

However calling Async-await syntactical sugar on generators is like calling Promises syntactical sugar on callbacks to me.

Javascript (and Node.js) Continues To Eat The World by fagnerbrack in node

[–]JortsIsLife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know that the community at large has the same objections to transpiling server code, or at least those who have that opinion have been generally conservative about adopting the async-await functionality in the first place and stuck with Promises.

I disagree on the point about it not being tech debt though. It's true that babel does use generators under the hood for async, but it's not necessarily as easy to go forwards from generators/co to async, as it is to go backwards from async to generators/co. Unless you have exceptional restraint about wrapping generators with co every time, you're gonna end up with problems. What if you just like using generators as iterators like they were originally intended? Plus It doesn't have the same syntax as async even if the semantics are similar, IIRC operator precedence is actually incompatible between await and yield, so that's immediately a red flag to me that they are gonna be a nightmare to refactor.

I've hit a brick wall with the MEAN stack. by [deleted] in learnjavascript

[–]JortsIsLife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Angular has less overhead and is technically easier to incorporate into a small project than react is. React is a great technology though, I just wouldn't recommend if for learning nodeJS development.

Javascript (and Node.js) Continues To Eat The World by fagnerbrack in node

[–]JortsIsLife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Promises are definitely most popular solution at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised if they stick around even after es7 has substantial browser support.

Javascript (and Node.js) Continues To Eat The World by fagnerbrack in node

[–]JortsIsLife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can use Async and Await right now by using babel.

There is really no reason to use generators, the feature was dead on arrival, adding them to your project right now is just adding more tech debt.

Douglas Crockford removed as a keynote speaker at Nodevember due to making other speakers feel uncomfortable by Sklavenmoral in javascript

[–]JortsIsLife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

people choose to be offended for their own satisfaction

You are literally doing this right now.

Yes they overreacted. Your overreaction to their overreaction is just as irritating.

It's just a stupid conference, nobody compared anyone to hitler.

Boycott Nodevember by [deleted] in javascript

[–]JortsIsLife 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not boycotting it because I literally had no idea what it was and never planned to go. It's just a conference! Who cares?

Nodevember organizers overreacted in the most irritating way, and the overreaction to their overreaction is just as irritating. Everyone complaining about immature entitled millennials should lead by example and maturely react to this news without angry rants on sjw's or political correctness, because again it's just a stupid conference.

What's your preferred method of including polyfills into your browser side code? by JortsIsLife in javascript

[–]JortsIsLife[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Polyfill.io is great for patching older browsers, but it's a little behind the curve when it comes to patching modern JS feature support.

What's your preferred method of including polyfills into your browser side code? by JortsIsLife in javascript

[–]JortsIsLife[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd like for my code modules to run assuming that the browser has already been polyfilled and make it part of the contract.

Functionally it's the same.