Rounded Corners 398 — The Anternet:

§ Function Declarations vs. Function Expressions.

§ In-depth: Cleaning bad code. A good writeup on dealing with that steaming pile of messy old code.

§ Just because it can be done: JavaScript code using only six different characters.

§ Why developers can’t say no to Node. There’s an infographic, so it must be true!

§ Why Waiting Is Torture:

Occupied time (walking to baggage claim) feels shorter than unoccupied time (standing at the carousel). Research on queuing has shown that, on average, people overestimate how long they’ve waited in a line by about 36 percent.

§ Violet:

“Vertically and horizontally centering a <div> with CSS is the hardest problem in computer science.”

§ No bullshit policy for dealing with trolls in the node community. Love it.

tl;dr If you’re a dick, you get kicked out. This is not negotiable.

§ The Anternet:

A collaboration between a Stanford ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet.

 

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