Linkdump for July 25th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
Nicholas Zakas on some of the new/proposed ES6 syntax. Some good points all around; and I'm particularly head-nodding to his remarks re: "fat arrow" syntax.
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At New York Magazine. I came in through William Gibson's list, but all the lists are fantastic.
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Maria Popova, writing about Pierre Bayard's book "How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read" at Brain Pickings:
Literature becomes not a container of absolute knowledge but a compass for orienteering ourselves to and in the world and its different contexts, books become not isolated objects but a system of relational understanding…
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By Alex Young, writing at DailyJS.
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Conor Friedersdorf, writing for The Atlantic:
By removing himself from the decision-making cycle, the president shielded himself — and all elected authority — from responsibility should a mission go wrong or be found illegal.
Or how about the fact that creating a covert and apparently for-profit team of assassins run by Blackwater, and keeping the whole thing from Congress — maybe that's wrong and illegal?
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