LittleDan

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by LittleDan 2y ago
LGTM! Smells like Redux (in a good way). But then ultimately at the root you probably want the event to update your “model”, and then that leads to an update of the “view”. This is the part where signals can be useful.
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by LittleDan 2y ago
I think there is room for improvement in how we explain this. The problems aren’t really visible in this small sample and comes up more for bigger things. PRs welcome.
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by LittleDan 6y ago
> what do you do to retain talent? Wouldn't senior employees look elsewhere for better pay? Giving everyone a true sense of co-ownership is great for retention. Plus interesting, meaningful work, good pay, etc. Why would you need to
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by LittleDan 6y ago
It would be great to hear feedback from everyone on the Temporal survey: https://forms.gle/iL9iZg7Y9LvH41Nv8
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by LittleDan 10y ago
pizlonator, Is ShadowChicken cheap enough to turn on all the time and make Error.stack work similarly to without PTC?
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by LittleDan 10y ago
We wrote about this in detail in http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/04/es6-es7-and-beyond.htm... under the heading "Proper Tail Calls". tl;dr we implemented it, it works, but we are not shipping it becau
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by LittleDan 10y ago
From the post: "The V8 team is already working to bring upcoming features such as async / await keywords, Object.prototype.values() / Object.prototype.entries(), String.prototype.padStart() / String.prototype.padEnd() an
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by LittleDan 10y ago
Sorry for the inaccurate shorthand; maybe that should read that SpiderMonkey supports it. Eric Faust of SpiderMonkey is a co-champion of the proposal, and spoke against implicit PTC at the March 2016 TC39 meeting. It's hard to get much
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by LittleDan 11y ago
And you can use that sort of library in ES6 because generators were standardized.
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by LittleDan 11y ago
Not sure what you mean by virtual DOM. From the WebAssembly FAQ: "Is WebAssembly trying to replace JavaScript? No! WebAssembly is designed to be a complement to, not replacement of, JavaScript (JS). While WebAssembly will, over time, a
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by LittleDan 11y ago
ES2016 is proposed to be based on Ecmarkup, a more modern system which will let us collaborate on Github more easily, rather than a canonical MS Word document on the editor's computer.
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by LittleDan 11y ago
What approval means here is that it was ratified by the ECMA General Assembly. The move by TC-39 to send ECMAScript 2015 to the GA was voted on at the last TC-39 meeting around a month ago.
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by LittleDan 11y ago
The plan is to keep releasing them mid-year.
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by LittleDan 11y ago
Hey, I was just going to mention how easy it was for me to move... to right next to your cube! (I'm in V8.)
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by LittleDan 11y ago
Strong mode prohibits most (all?) implicit conversions https://developers.google.com/v8/experiments . Brendan's talked about adding a macro system. I'm not sure if a macro system could really let you redefine
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by LittleDan 11y ago
For background on the user-defined operators and literals idea for ES7, see this: http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/value-objects (it took me a little while to find; it hasn't been as prominent in recent discu
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by LittleDan 11y ago
6% is nothing compared to the raises or stocks or other random bonuses that come with working for a big tech company for a while and doing well. It seems really short-sighted to compare details about initial offers at such a minute level. P
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by LittleDan 11y ago
When I got out of school 4 years ago, people were already making the same arguments. While Google isn't perfect, I can't imagine a place I'd rather work, where I can really dig into technical details of things while having fr
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by LittleDan 12y ago
I agree, that's a great book to start with. When I started out programming the Linux kernel, I thought I had to understand everything and I hated the book for not going into detail on how things worked. But really, I just had to start