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   by a8i 13y ago

   I'll ask the obvious question: why? Closures are the natural result of allowing the dynamic creation of lambdas, which is pretty central to JS as a language. A language "like Javascript but without closures" would no longer b
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   by a8i 13y ago

   Everyone here is well aware that TIME's editors choose the person of the year, and that the poll is a mere sideshow which at most might influence the editors' choice, right? Cf. moot and /b/'s votespamming.
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   by a8i 13y ago

   If you're a single, early 20s engineer in silicon valley, it's nigh on trivial to sock away ~40 k$ in a year. That's easily a year's runway for yourself, or half a year with a cofounder.
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   by a8i 13y ago

   > in the way that a native speaker does You are aware that native speakers can have (sometimes wildly) varying accents, right? There are inarguably millions upon millions L1 English speakers in India. The fact that the English they speak
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   by a8i 13y ago

   Ironically, this post's explanation caused me understand the pumping lemma for the first time after years of letting my eyes just slide over any time I read across a mention. (It nerdsniped me by claiming it was difficult.)