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Comment by mattnewton | Hacker News Reader

That's why you need to use ===

Fuck me. What does that stand for? I know =,==, but not ===

It's strict equality in JavaScript.

    17 == "17"  // TRUE
    17 === "17" // FALSE

Heh, just looking at the code rather than the text, my first thought was "type error".