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Because I'd rather write my programs in a Lisp like Javascript?

Actually, a bunch of us are working on taking the pain out of async programming. Here's my approach, using (fab)'s chained continuations: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tr4nslator/45…

"Traditional Chinese characters are widely used, and are the de facto writing standard in Hong Kong." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Hong_Kong#Written_...

You can even do that in half the bytes by making use of all unary operators together: -~+[] -~ is a good proxy for ++ when incrementing unassigned variables.

I think this should probably point here: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#scripts The salient point is that CoffeeScript now automatically compiles any code in a script t…

The Japanese government is not unique here. Earmarks and pork are just as big a problem in the United States.

Do you anticipate that the use of WebSockets will improve performance? If so, can you estimate to what degree?

I actually think this is less magical than most approaches, since there's no pre-compilation or "with" scoping magic. Sinatra's hello world is awesome, until you realize that a lot…

Indeed you can. (fab) is 100% async: http://gist.github.com/287475#file_hello_async.js

Indeed, CoffeeScript was built on Ruby, and its REPL on Narwhal.

It's vaguely lispy, but without all that nesting. Multi-line functions work okay, but it's definitely cleaner to name them and put them somewhere else so that your code ends up loo…

Yeah, a (fab) function just returns itself. It's like jQuery's chaining, but using argument signatures instead of object methods to delegate work. The last (fab) is just a way to i…

Hey all, I just launched a dead-simple web framework on top of node.js. It uses (abuses?) a lot of the dynamic nature of javascript to create a jQuery-inspired DSL that's pure java…

.live() : DOM event handling :: CSS : DOM styling

The latter was just from my framework of choice until now, Tornado.

Server-side Javascript frameworks seem to be in the midst of a Cambrian explosion right now. I just pushed my own today: http://github.com/jed/fab/

Actually, I'm pretty sure this is another version of the Picasa scrollbar, which has been around for a few years: http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20090102/PIcasaMac-main_610x449.p...

Or for a more quantitative approach, with 1.7 Chinese characters per English word[1] and an average English word length at 5.1 letters[2], then somewhere around 420 characters. (Bu…

Actually, I think their solution is pretty elegant; any task that takes that long is abstracted to its own HTTP request, which itself can be blocking without blocking the original …

I'm pretty sure they're not using much metadata, but instead using collaborative filtering based on the libraries other iTunes users. "Apple's proprietary recommendation engine tha…

You might want to create your own original "feedback" image for the tab on the left. Yours[1] appears to have been copied from uservoice[2] (probably a leftover from deciding to us…

Check out the jQuery Metadata plugin: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/metadata It lets you choose where to define this kind of custom data: in an arbitrary attribute, as a class …