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I'm not sure what resolution these images are, but if it's very high-res, it may make sense to make intermediate-sized versions first. I expect that would make recreating thumbnail…

Thanks for explaining difference between concurrency and parallelism so clearly! I'll remember this. I of course realize that Node doesn't truly handle things in parallel. It's a s…

I posted this as a comment on the gist: It's not about performance, it's about parallelism concurrency. If you don't care for Node's ability to handle multiple requests in parallel…

The point I was trying to make is that I see this graph as doing something comparable to saying you're (by definition) born in "the year zero, at 00:00:00".

Does anyone else have trouble understanding (or "intuitively reading") the graph in the f.lux beta preferences? I discovered that's a kind of "ego-centric" graph. I mean ego-centri…

This is a nice example of a "commitment device", "a means with which to lock yourself into a course of action that you might not otherwise choose but that produces a desired result…

"Attendees [...] learned a technique called "pre-hindsight" that uses emotional cues to create more foolproof plans. It works like this: Imagine that six months have passed, and yo…

Wouldn't it be better if it would just say "mock your HTTP responses to test your HTTP client", or "to test your HTTP client code"? The service makes a lot of sense otherwise.

From the post: "This is annoying at the level of Arrays, but gets more difficult with more complex types, and function interactions. The recent brouhaha around the Promise/A+ highl…

Perhaps the most surprising to me is how much difference the array.map(function(item){ return parseFloat(item); }) statement makes. Removing this gives almost a 100% speedup. Using…

It seems the blog had a kind of "invisible" filter on the comments, which made it appear there were zero comments, or one (your own) if you had posted one. Now a whole pile of comm…

"let's implement that corrected version of the node.js application and run the benchmark again." - Do it. I'm curious. :)

I'll take that as a compliment. ;) If I ever would be doing such a thing, it would be more of a lesson in how to use node.js properly (even for non-typical tasks like sorting) then…

Thinking this through some more, using sort with a comparator function would be unnecessary slow. Given the objective of the algoritm (return a median), it's much better to convert…

I posted this comment: "It's obvious that you're new to Node.js. First of all, you should be aware that Async.js is a mere flow-control library. It does not offload work to separat…

Tim, do you know about https://github.com/danlucraft/git.js ?

You can vote on which editor you want Tern to be integrated with (aside from emacs and vim): http://ternjs.net/vote.html

Looks cool! How do you gauge the difficulty of adding support for CoffeeScript to this? Re the indiegogo campaign: I think you should consider adding an extra supporter tier betwee…