phase_9

The glory days are over. In the future, one software engineer will be able to support multiple product areas much like how one HR team can support 1,000's of employees.

LLMs have made domain knowledge and reasoning "cheap"; it doesn't matter if the output is lower quality - look around you for countless examples of where cheap wins and "cheap" continues to improve.

Good luck out there; we will all need it.

The surplus stock was incinerated. Source: wished at mind candy in the early 2010s

Hey plexicle - I also bumped into this one when I started with webpack; I've written the approach I use as a blog post, hope this helps: http://jonnyreeves.co.uk/2016/simple-webpack-prod-and-dev-co...

Slightly off topic, but can anyone share a link to a large, well designed (open-source) codebase written in TypeScript? Github incorrectly/mistakenly tags C projects at TypeScript thanks to the `.ts` files present (thanks for picking a unique TLA Microsoft ;)

[0] https://github.com/trending?l=typescript

I have anyways seen git submodules (and svn-externals before) to be a quick and dirty workaround for managing dependencies between modules.

I've been under the impression that using an artifact management tool such as Apache Ivy or Bower provides a more manageable and scalable solution, especially in projects with 20+ developers.

How does the solution proposed by the author compare? Does it compliment a managed artefact based solution?

I've seen this style of library come up quite a few times whilst hacking away in JavaScript where developers try to introduce a sense of strict typing (I even wrote a similar one myself when I first moved over from ActionScript). In the end I learned to stop worrying and love the <strike>bomb</strike> duck typing[0].

For me; one of the "joys" of coding JavaScript is the expressiveness that comes with a dynamic languages; should you throw an ArgumentError when your function that expects a number is invoked with a String? Maybe - sure it can help catch problems early and effectively "stop-the-line" in your public API, but then again it will probably end up throwing the classic `TypeError: Object foo has no method 'bar'` for you anyway.

For "public" methods which form part of an API (especially when that API is going to be shared outside of my team) I try to make my functions handle failure early (before they delegate off to the "private" internal methods), even better if the public methods can repair any unexpected usage, ie:

  function convertToHex(value) {
    var result;
    
    if (typeof value !== "number") {
      result = convertToHex(parseInt(value, 10));
    }
    else {
      result = "0x" + value.toString(16);
    }
    
    return result;
  }

Also, with regards to default argument values, I've always felt the "native" JavaScript approach was fairly compact and descriptive when required:

  function doFoo(bar) {
    bar = (bar !== undefined) ? bar : "default_value";
  }

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing

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ECMAScript 4 was implemented in ActionScript 3[1]; a very nice language to work with IMHO. The members of the ECMAScript steering group launched into a public fracas on their respective blogs[2] which eventually ended in the draft being canned, despite the fact both ActionScript and Silverlight were already based on the standard... shame.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript#ActionScript_3.0

[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2007/10/30/ecmascript-3-a...

Shame I can no longer hear anything thanks to the roar of my laptop's fans!

Text only link for TFA: http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiamat.tsotech.co...

This is a small jQuery plugin that I have been maintaining for a few months now. It provides a bit of sugar when using both jQuery and Mustache templates.

True, but I find the lack of Micro-SD Card Slot to be particularly galling, especially as it's becoming an increasingly popular trend with Android handset manufacturers looking to add a hefty markup between otherwise identical models. Just ends up hurting us consumers who want to carry their music collections around with them :(

Yet another promises library (: It's great that people are writing and sharing code, but it feels like people are trying to re-invent the wheel when stable, mature and well tested libraries[0] already exist for these problems.

[0] https://github.com/cujojs/when

Anecdotal, I know, but I found VideoJS to be a bit of a mess. From a code point of view, the player instance would not destroy correctly resulting in a memory leak for single-page web apps and IMHO the CSS was a pain to work with.

Yet another HTML5 "Game Changer" which has already been available as part of the Adobe Flash Platform[1] for the best part of three years.

Just saying :)

For those down-voting me; I find this attitude very strange. If the tools were present in another widely deployed runtime, but were heavily under utilised then why are people getting so excited about them this time around?

I guess some people just love to hate Flash.

[1] http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cirrus/

So store it in Dropbox and have a copy on a USB Key you carry with you (along with a portable version[1] of Keepass)

Also, on the same subject, it's the "all you need is your memory" bit that makes me smile. If you could rely on your memory then why would you need to have these hashing functions in the first place? (:

[1] http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/keepass_portable/

I don't understand why people are trying to come up with such complex solutions to Password and Security Question retrieval when portable and open source solutions, like Keepass[1][2] exist.

Just store your "random" Security Question answers alongside the login credentials - they'll be encrypted safely.

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[1] http://www.keepass.info/

[2] http://www.keepassx.org/

I loathe sites that disable pasting passwords (I'm looking at you, Apple!) as it makes entering that random 24 char string generated by Keepass an exercise in frustration.

"Aura is currently missing two important items needed to help us get out a stable release. These are good unit tests and stronger documentation."

I can understand the lack of documentation, but I balk at the fact that framework developers wouldn't use TDD to guide the development :(

Unsalted MD5s. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/speed-hashing.html

I've just spent the last couple of hours creating unique longins for every site I can remember having a login for and storing them in Keepass (opensource password safe). The Keepass database is stored on my dropbox account so it's automatically synced to all machines / devices I use.

I get the impression this is going to be a bit of a PITA, but with the rate these sites are being breached it's probably a sensible move.

AppleTV + XBMC? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4iEl3BqhUI

I liked the part where you encouraged the developer to think about how the API will be consumed by the end user; however even a brief mention of some BDD / Unit tests here would have been nice (:

Reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/#!/dozba/status/198081985506328576. Seriously, put the effort in to learn a unit testing framework (Qunit) and a mocking framework (SinonJS) and use them. You'll find that refactoring your large dynamic projects no longer involves blindly 'changing shit'.