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hexasquid··on Element: setHTML() method
After a minute of digging, found discussion here: https://github.com/WICG/sanitizer-api/issues/100 Perhaps it can be reopened (or a new issue can be opened) regarding naming.
hexasquid··on Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during JerryRigEverything's durability test
"You're folding it wrong"
hexasquid··on VIM Master
Anyone can learn :q to quit vim

But can anyone truly quit vim? No

hexasquid··on Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?
let's just map pedantic->precise and call it a day :)
hexasquid··on Your Prize for Saving Time at Work with AI: More Work
30h week please
hexasquid··on Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?
I've never been quite sure when I'm applying data to a function, or applying a function to some data
hexasquid··on The Level Design Book
I can believe we'd get a level, but I'm not ready to believe we'd get something as refined as the undead burg (a case study in the book).
hexasquid··on AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please
Treat AI like a junior employee?

Absolutely not. When giving tasks to an AI, we supply them with context, examples of what to do, examples of what not to do, and we clarify their role and job. We stick with them as they work and direct them accordingly when something goes wrong.

I've no idea what would happen if we treated a junior developer like that.

hexasquid··on Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
I'd guess for the same reason we want native apps to be able to do that.
hexasquid··on Geist, a typeface specifically designed for developers and designers
At last!
hexasquid··on React VR
Shall we do it in jQuery?
hexasquid··on Show HN: A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties
How about both?
hexasquid··on “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
The JavaScript community really needs to get together and fix it so only one version of any possible library is published.
hexasquid··on React Native for Ubuntu
JSX is syntactic sugar for JavaScript.

Not clear what you are referring to by the "many layers" or indeed the "framework".

hexasquid··on OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
Is it Mac Oh Ess or does it rhyme with GladOS?
hexasquid··on Juniper screenOS authentication backdoor - master ssh password posted
"My God, it was Edward Snowden"
hexasquid··on React v0.14
.getDAMNNode
hexasquid··on Apple Unveils the iPad Pro
In context Jobs was talking about getting them, putting them away and losing them.
hexasquid··on Tesla unveils new car-charging robo-snake
T-600s were covered in rubber - turned out people could spot them easily, so they were poor infiltrators.

Tesla should consider covering these with living tissue to make them more palatable to humans.

hexasquid··on Some analysis of the 1M most popular sites on the web
Not really. NPM is also used with a tool called browserify to enable frontend web developers to use NPM modules in the browser.
hexasquid··on Is ReactJS really fast?
React gets faster if you use it's features. Angular gets faster if you don't.
hexasquid··on Is ReactJS really fast?
Well... I'm not expecting to do both, and get 100fps on the client while also doing all the processing serverside.
hexasquid··on [dead]
Fancy animation? It's a JavaScript animation, in the age of CSS animation.
hexasquid··on Mountains Aren't the Shape You Think
Is your body a stick figure? Read this before you hit the beach.
hexasquid··on If two objects approach at 75 percent the speed of light
Get out of the way?
hexasquid··on Who Cares about the Apple Watch Edition?
Every evening, if the battery needs a daily charge.
hexasquid··on Introducing Aurelia
We make these jokes with the documentation for the Julia language.

"The easiest way to learn and experiment with Julia is by starting an interactive session".

hexasquid··on Functional Programming Patterns
This reply is a little late, but there is a series on the (non-free-but-worth-it-for-one month) "Frontend Masters" site. It is called Hardcore Functional Programming (or similar) and goes into Monads, Functors in normal JavaScript.
hexasquid··on Functional Programming Patterns
How are you finding the mooc? Can you recommend it?
hexasquid··on Step-by-step JavaScript interpreter, written in JavaScript
This is terrific. I'd love a description of what the interpreter is actually doing at each step, perhaps optionally sent to the console. This could be a wonderful tool for teaching how JavaScript works.
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