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jimmyhchan

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jimmyhchan··on A Simple, Comprehensive Overview of Javascript
typeof is an operator not a function
jimmyhchan··on What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
Prep for an earthquake. This is not techy but very necessary.
jimmyhchan··on dōmo: Markup, style, and code in one language
High quality code. Good job!

Template engines allow you to reuse template as functions. I do not believe this system promotes reusable markup. If this is intended for simple static HTML, I would rather use static HTML -- pre-generated using HAML or mustache.

Determine the global object: why not just pass this into your closure function?

jimmyhchan··on What I Hate About Git
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/115983/how-do-i-add-an-em...

Git questions on SO with more than 300 upvotes should be considered bugs.

jimmyhchan··on MTV News covers "The Internet", video from 1995
Funny how it comes around again but in circa 1995 everything was streaming using RealAudio so the music industry was pretty eager to have it available since the user never actually had the files. http://books.google.com/books?id=wAcEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA107&...