Comment by hurrymaplelad on How do I compile coffeescript before publishing...
@LeonidBeschastny worth noting for sure. Some folks feel strongly that such a build tool is often unnecessary. Node modules are often (ideally?) so small that build tooling beyond scripts is excessive.
View ArticleComment by hurrymaplelad on Do I need to publish to npm every time I update a...
$ travis setup npm adds the above using the travis gem
View ArticleComment by hurrymaplelad on Should I commit Godeps/_workspace or is...
Opened an issue for documentation.
View ArticleComment by hurrymaplelad on Should I commit Godeps/_workspace or is...
Sounds right to me, but what do you make of this branch in the buildpack? Looks like it skips go getting dependencies if there's a Godeps directory at all...
View ArticleComment by hurrymaplelad on Why can't I push this up-to-date Git subtree?
I'm having the same problem. I've been using --rejoin to speed up subtree pushes. When I step through the subtree push manually, running subtree split --rejoin, the split subtree branch only has...
View ArticleComment by hurrymaplelad on How to run travis-ci locally
There's a thread about this on the travis repo.
View ArticleComment by hurrymaplelad on What's the difference between public interfaces...
For example, Charge.create() is both public, and part of the published stripe API, while ChargeRefundCollectionDeserializer.deserialize() is public, but not published. Developers using the Stripe...
View ArticleComment by hurrymaplelad on Can node-fibers be implemented using ES6 generators?
@nalply, fixed. Thanks!
View ArticleComment by hurrymaplelad on How does performance of EXTRACT(day) compare to...
that totally answers my question. Part of me hoped Postgres could optimize an EXTRACT expression, perhaps even transform it to combinations of <= and >=. Sounds like an opportunity to contribute :)
View ArticleComment by hurrymaplelad on Limiting node.js's memory usage
The default limit increased to ~1.5GB around node 2. See github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3370#issuecomment-148108323
View ArticleComment by hurrymaplelad on Javascript "this" in static methods
@MarkReed @Esailija I enjoyed this discussion! ActionScript3 (an ECMAScript derivative) offers an interesting example of how we might expect "first-class" methods to behave in a JS-like language....
View ArticleComment by hurrymaplelad on Flow raises an error for a common pattern in...
Yep, methods are typed covariant by default: flow.org/blog/2016/10/04/Property-Variance/…
View ArticleHow might I check if any mocha tests failed from within an after block?
describe('some tests', function () { /* * Run some tests... */})after(function () { failures = ? // <--- what goes here? console.log(failures +" tests failed!")})I'd use this to keep chromedriver's...
View ArticleWhy do some Gulp streams "flow" by default, while others do not?
Consider these two gulp tasks:gulp.task('src', function(done) { gulp.src('docs/*') .on('end', function() { console.log('ending'); done(); });});gulp.task('dest', function(done) { gulp.src('docs/*')...
View ArticleHow do I install git-imerge on OS X?
Git imerge looks pretty cool, but the README has no hints for getting it installed. Is there a quick way to try it out on a mac?
View ArticleCan node-fibers be implemented using ES6 generators?
Wikipedia suggests that coroutines can be implemented with generators. Does this mean node-fibers could be implemented using ES6 generators?
View ArticleHow does performance of EXTRACT(day) compare to BETWEEN?
I'm querying a PostgreSQL table for rows in a range of days. BETWEEN is a common recommendation:WHERE ts BETWEEN '2015-09-01' AND '2015-10-01'I've also seen EXTRACT used:WHERE EXTRACT(month from ts) =...
View ArticleAnswer by hurrymaplelad for nodejs: Node modules vs singleton classes
Check out Node's module caching caveats for the cases where the 'singletoness' of modules will break down.If you always reference your singleton module with file paths (starting with ./, ../, or /)...
View ArticleWhy is this MongoDB ObjectID infinite in Google spreadsheet?
Type the MongoDB ObjectID 52489e882967060200000283 into a cell in a Google spreadsheet and it's clobbered by ∞. What gives?
View ArticleAnswer by hurrymaplelad for How to run JavaScript using jsc on OS X?
Complements of this post, JSC lives at /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/jscand is not in the shell PATH by default. You can fix that withln -s...
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Answer by hurrymaplelad for Improving graphviz layout
TikZ generates beautiful graph layouts. You can use a manual layout that lets you specify the minimum of hints, or you can ask for automatic layout. Defaults are good, and hooks exist to tweak to...
View ArticleLoading Google Maps API V3 asynchronously with dojo.io.script fails silently
Smushing Google's asynchronous loading docs into dojo's asynchronous loader yields: dojo.io.script.get({ url: 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js', jsonp: 'callback', content: { sensor: 'false' },...
View ArticleWhen would I use a Hack dict over a PHP array?
The docs are pretty light. The interface looks almost identical to an array.When should I prefer a dict?
View ArticleDoes position: fixed create a new stacking context for z-indicies?
The z-index spec makes no special mention of position: fixed, but this fiddle orders elements differently on Chrome 24. Does setting position: fixed create a new stacking context for child elements?
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Answer by hurrymaplelad for Do browsers merge form action querystring params...
No.JS Fiddle suggests Chrome will discard foo=1, and request /signup?bar=2.
View ArticleDo browsers merge form action querystring params with fields?
Consider this form:<form method="GET" action="/signup?foo=1"><input type="hidden" name="bar" value="2"/><input type="submit"/></form>Will browsers reliably request...
View ArticleCan I Vary on a custom header?
I'm bucketing User-Agents by device using something like varnish-devicedetect and storing the result in X-UA-Device on the request and the response. I've seen several recommendations to vary on...
View ArticleAnswer by hurrymaplelad for How do I get the directory where a Bash script is...
$_ is worth mentioning as an alternative to $0. If you're running a script from Bash, the accepted answer can be shortened to:DIR="$( dirname "$_" )"Note that this has to be the first statement in your...
View ArticleHow do I compile coffeescript before publishing to NPM?
I wrote a simple module in CoffeeScript, but I want to publish the compiled JavaScript to NPM. I don't want to manually run the coffee command each time, that's too much typing and I'll probably forget...
View ArticleAre ES6 template literals faster than string concatenation?
Does HTML code generation run measurably faster in modern browsers when using string concatenation or template literals in ES6?For example:String concatenation"<body>"+"<article>"+"<time...
View ArticleHow to tell if a name is a tag, bookmark, or named branch?
Given a nice string labe that works with hg show (ex: hg show stable), how can I determine if stable is a tag name, a bookmark name, or a named branch?
View ArticleType expression describing the string literal union of enum names?
Given:class Color(Enum): RED = 1 GREEN = 2 BLUE = 3Is there a type expression Foo such that:Foo[Color] = Literal["RED", "GREEN", "BLUE"]
View ArticleAnswer by hurrymaplelad for How to test client-side code with NodeUnit
Karma runner has a nodeunit adapter to run nodeunit tests in browsers and PhantomJS. Here's an example test entrypoint and Gruntfile using Browserify to run tests written in CommonJS modules (exports).
View ArticleAnswer by hurrymaplelad for How to test client-side code with NodeUnit
nodeunit-browser-tap+Testling is another option if you're set on nodeunit.The Testling npm package gets you command line output for tests run in a local browser.Testling.com gets you free cross browser...
View ArticleObject.keys() complexity?
Anyone know the time-complexity of ECMAScript5's Object.keys() in common implementations? Is it O(n) for n keys? Is time proportional to the size of the hash table, assuming a hash implementation?I'm...
View ArticleClosest ancestor matching selector using native DOM?
Is anybody working on a jQuery.closest() equivalent in the DOM api?Looks like the Selectors Level 2 draft adds matches() equivalent to jQuery.is(), so native closest should be much easier to write. Has...
View ArticleDoes Varnish-devicedetect cookie based User-agent override require vary:...
varnish-devicedetect lets me return different responses based on User-agent:...elsif (req.http.User-Agent ~ "(?i)ipad") { set req.http.X-UA-Device = "tablet-ipad"; }elsif (req.http.User-Agent ~...
View ArticleDepend on a branch or tag using a git URL in a package.json?
Say I've forked a node module with a bugfix and I want to use my fixed version, on a feature branch of course, until the bugfix is merged and released. How would I reference my fixed version in the...
View ArticleAnswer by hurrymaplelad for Depend on a branch or tag using a git URL in a...
Solution 1From the npm docs, using a git URL:https://github.com/<user>/<project>.git#<branch>https://github.com/<user>/<project>.git#feature\/<branch>Don't use...
View ArticleHow do I prepend to a short python list?
list.append() appends to the end of a list. This explains that list.prepend() does not exist due to performance concerns for large lists. For a short list, how do I prepend a value?
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