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Month: July 2018
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How did typeof null === ‘object’ ?
How did typeof null === ‘object’ ?
We’ve all heard it was some kind of a bug in the original JavaScript source code, too late to fix now, but what kind of bug was it?
Dr Axel Rauschmayer (of course) explains it very well.
Charles Murray, American intellectual and total monster.
Charles Murray, American intellectual and total monster.
Not a lot of people know this but Liberalism is actually the political philosophy of merchant bankers.
Not a lot of people know this but Liberalism is actually the political philosophy of merchant bankers.
Amazon is garbage.
Amazon is garbage.
Concentration is a mathematical inevitability of a scale free network.
Concentration is a mathematical inevitability of a scale free network. The connections that allow a million shops from a thousand cities to compete on a global market are the same connections that mean they can all be replaced by a single shop operating from a single city.
The internet allows this to happen frictionlessly and rapidly but it’s no different to the consequences of normal competition under capitalism. Long term, competition always tends toward monopoly.
Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting
A simple introduction to function composition which also happens to be the way RxJS replaced its heavy use of…
A simple introduction to function composition which also happens to be the way RxJS replaced its heavy use of prototype methods with simple to implement and compose functions.
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