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Can you hoist the `if (result)` into the `try` part of the statement? (Without seeing more context hard to know why that wouldn't work for you). Another pattern to avoid the above …

Personally I find SQL much easier to read. In a product where you might allow users to write queries it is a much more pleasant UX experience to write and read SQL than it would be…

It is none of their business why I needed my money or how many trips it took.

the future is now

Duplicate dependencies affecting client side "size" is highly overrated. We can make tools (and have tools) that can compare files for same content and only include them in client …

Systems where people seem to live under the assumption that if they don't get the latest patch updates or security updates their code will somehow be inferior and they will instant…

Pinning in development is equally necessary if you hope to bring sanity to your development team all using the same codebase. Not pinning may be great for a one person 'team' or mo…

Why should they reconsider it? Someone that just got into development and might want to show their friends or family something they are hacking away on. According to you they now n…

To me the ease of having the library be installable with the "canonical" package manager of my platform is too convenient; just "feels" more natural and simpler. I actually thought…

You can. See the README.

Author of the project here. I want to clarify why this project exists (as many seem to point out that other projects or methods exist for doing this). TL;DR; If you think of localt…

The fix for this is to use a module. Simple. Not a problem.

The generator example has no error handling (at least not from what I can see). Once the "callback hell" example was re-written with named functions, it is not much different than …

I'll get the medic.

As long as every jquery plugin and other code that depends on jquery continues to require all of jquery, all this module stuff is useless. I am sure it helps you organize jquery De…

Lots of those are for Sizzle. jQuery would be great if it broke up all those tiny little and completely orthogonal things it does into modules so that people could use them as need…

This is a lie. The internet browser is way too good.

This is very unfortunate that they are doing this if the data was scraped and not hitting their servers. Is it that some part of the data they think is copyrighted (like grades) ve…

I run a similar service for other schools (courseoff.com) and I have run into this before. I bet what happened was their site failed to cache the course data or seat information an…

You don't have to trust anything. If you want to NIH everything yourself, nothing is stopping you. It is however more likely that many packages on NPM are better than the ones you …

IMO bug bounty payouts are a more effective use of funds for a project. Paying per commit is like paying per line of code. At least with a bug bounty you (the giver) can specify wh…

Because writing plain javascript is simpler for the majority of people to understand and will run in more places without the need for custom setups. Module authors will not write t…

Lots of problems can be solved with one language depending on the language. And I have worked on several single language stack projects. Having a single language stack has many ben…

Don't be hatin' just cause you have never seen panic buying ;)