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It's ensuring a default value basically. If you instantiate a person without an argument and try to reference this.gender later, you'll throw a script error. This is just avoiding …

Maybe inspecting source is their first bar to get over? Pretty low if so...

Oh man... the Rhino is a good reference, but lacks all kinds of best practices and essential style pieces. Between 'proper' OO style, short circuiting on falsey assignment (var a =…

So I (blindly) thought that an Apple-integrated SSD might somehow be better than an aftermarket add in I drop in, RE TRIM. Is this not the case? IANAHDS (I am not a hard drive spec…

You know, I was nodding my head as I read the OPs progression. The first programming I ever tried was Rails (it's the hotness, why not dive in!). My problem was that it was magical…

Incidentally, as a webdev who targets big businesses, they in fact usually have -slow- computers. Javascript in IE 6 is pokey, and typical use-cases of Outlook and Excel don't need…

A service that has no backend (no server calls, DB, 'scary' stuff to consumers) that lets you back up your tweets on your own terms. Basically gives you ownership of things you wri…

The Lorem Ipsum book store in Cambridge, MA does just this. It was started by some MIT kids (afaik) with some basic algorithms set up to judge the "goodness" of a book when they go…

Typo: I think you probably meant garlic 'cloves' not garlic 'gloves' in the onscreen recipe. Minor, but I noticed.

I love a very specific kind of blog/article/post and I'd love to know if more exist. They post 'lessons-learned' and 'process-insight' articles about their large scale development …

At the beginning of the learning curve, there's little better for grasping topics than hearing someone else explain them. I've learned more (almost entirely by virtue of genius co-…

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