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159 JSJ Why JavaScript Is Hard

May 13, 201558 min
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02:54 - Everyone Gets It But Me04:06 - Tools You “Need” to Know06:29 - Clojures07:39 - JavaScript as “Object-Oriented” vs “Event-Oriented”09:30 - Code That Can’t Be Serialized or Deserialized10:49 - Clojures (Cont’d)14:32 - The DOM (Document Object Model)19:52 - Math Is Hard
  • IEEE754 (Floating-Point Arithmetic)
22:39 - Prototypes25:43 - Asynchronous Programming32:23 - Browser Environments34:48 - Keeping Up with JavaScript35:46 - Node
  • Nesting
  • Context Switching
42:48 - UTF-8 Conversion44:56 - Jamison’s StackCheck out and sign up to get new on React Rally: A community React conference on August 24th and 25th in Salt Lake City, Utah!Picks Jason Orendorff: ES6 In Depth (Aimee)
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A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Joe)
Gregor Hohpe: Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit  (AJ)
Firefox OS (AJ)
Flame (AJ)
OpenWest 2015 (AJ)
801 Labs Hackerspace (AJ)
Stack Overflow Careers (AJ)
Dota 2 (Jamison)
Beats, Rye & Types Podcast (Jamison)
JS Remote Conf Talks (Chuck)
Workflowy (Chuck)

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