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>Understanding a methods 'arguments' variable and how it can be used to overload functions through arguments.length and make recursive calls through arguments.callee

seems he doesn't know "use strict"

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Yes I do, if you're using strict this won't work.

just saying, mentioning a well known anti pattern as "advanced level of understanding" is kinda odd.

other than that i believe most of us know that there are shitloads (and then some) of bad javascript devs out there.

It is an anti-pattern but it's one that every framework takes advantage of. jQuery and Dojo use it heavily and it can be dangerous if you plan on incorporating it in strict mode. I will note strict mode in the article, thanks for pointing it out.

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