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Updated the post with timing numbers. I want to note that the numbers can be deceiving though because they use different mechanisms to record elapsed time. When I ran the same task…

Yeah I know. It was just a quick example. It's useful for something like: f = (options) -> options.foo or= 'bar' # ...

I myself enjoy using CoffeeScript, but I understand it might not be for everyone. It's always good to look at the pro/cons before choosing a language, so I think discussions like t…

Is it really that strange? Those statements are basically (as per ECMA-262 11.9.3): 0 === Number('0') 0 === Number('') '0' === ''

If this was socialism then either the government or the public would own Bell/Rogers/Telus. This is also not free-market capitalism. I'm not sure what you would call it.

The big deal here is that instead of offering competitive plans the big ISPs are _decreasing_ the level of service and _increasing_ the prices of plans. Also, Bell/Rogers/Telus hav…

Not exactly the same signature, but can handle arbitrary number of calls. var say = (function() { var savedArgs = []; return (function recurse () { if (arguments.length) { for (var…

The goal could be CSRF instead of actually reading the cookies. If there's a SessionID cookie for example, you can use JS to GET/POST the request to the server without needing to k…

No problem. It's one of those things developers don't realize when coming from C-style languages. :)

Blocks in JavaScript do not create scopes. This is different from many other languages (like Java or C). In fact, Crockford has mentioned this as well: http://javascript.crockford.…

In the case of closure, yes you will take a small performance hit. But the example given is still invalid because the only scope present is the function-scope (for-loop doesn't cre…

> #13 In any code block, store local references to out-of-scope variables. That doesn't even make sense. The for-loop block doesn't create a new scope, so it's perfectly valid to r…