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Thanks for the shout out! I'm still amazed how well that talk struck a nerve and it's a real kick seeing people getting something out of it 8 (!) years later.

Not the poster, but the creator: if anyone has suggestions on how to package this up for windows, or wants to suggest the best instuctions/test on linux(es) do let me know! Also ke…

Curious: is this intended to be a paid product or just a free catalog of videos?

I'll add, most of my understanding was done this way: somewhat experimentally. Come up with a hypothesis of how things might work, figure out a way to prove it, and see if I was ri…

Great question, and one i am not totally sure of myself. I guess the question is: if an event doesn't have any handlers listening for it, does it get queued and processed regardles…

Sure, I wasn't expecting you to copy edit if you don't want to, just pointing you to the source. > I appreciate the use of semver, but... Oh, we aren't breaking things _that_ quick…

That works for native types but gets trickier for custom datatypes, and ones where you want to specify custom getters and setters for example, and then specifying some as strings a…

Did you see ampersandjs.com? Perhaps we don't link to that clearly enough. Though yes, a better overview would be useful.

> You might be excited about the motivation behind your project but nobody cares, really. Yes we'll try and improve the content on the homepage to make it more focussed. Though I g…

Sorry, we just wanted to give the background to the project and why in the post, rather than focussing too heavily on code. There's plenty of API docs for the core components in ht…

Ampersand has evolved out of the client and product work we've done at &yet over the years. So there are a number of client projects with various evolutions of it in production, as…

That's true, although many of the core backbone components have been significantly modified/basically completely rewritten, keeping a fair amount of similarity with the backbone AP…

Funny, I hadn't even thought of that. It comes from &yet ( http://andyet.com ) :)

It's not made clear from my post, because I felt it was entirely irrelevant to the context of the post itself (which was merely intended as an interesting meander through the thoug…

Except the question was b==1 && b===2

Arguably the thing that tripped me up for the majority of the time was latching on to the fact that == and === are different, and trying to _always_ satisfy the two conditions, rat…

Ooh, I forgot all about prolog! I worked through the 7 languages in 7 weeks book, and solving a sudoku with prolog blew my mind. I think the first "real" programming I did was a su…

...free for up to 5 documents.

True! Didn't even think of that.

Exactly. The key challenges for us now are: - Expand to more platforms, to increase the total market we can hit. - Improve the product to make it easier for the general market to u…

We are listed here: http://www.freeagent.com/developers/goodies which drives some traffic our way. FreeAgent and our customers have mentioned us on twitter/blogged about us sporadi…