Linkdump for August 8th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
At the Bocoup blog. Rebecca's posts are almost always fantastic, and this one is particularly fantastic in its raw giddy nerdery. (Who doesn't want to gush over bitwise operators?)
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By Marja Hölttä and Jochen Eisinger (Chrome team, Munich), writing at the Google Open Source Blog. Their example isn't terribly useful for folks that aren't using Closure, but their assertion that "Leak Finder can be configured to detect other types of memory leaks and it can be used with [other] JavaScript libraries" is promising.
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By Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror. An oldie but goodie; great advice.
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A presentation from Tiago Rodrigues on why he chose Buster.js, and how he got it up and running in Phantom.js for his CI environment.
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Felix Salmon, writing for Reuters:
The scientists don’t consider what they do at TED to be science, and the ones who make it onto the TED Talks site are the ones most willing to let TED’s curators guide them to a trite and facile narrative nirvana.
The picture that Salmon paints of TED seems grim. I don't agree that TED talks are themselves A Bad Thing (as Salmon seems to suggest), but I would agree that they are dangerous inasmuch as they are popularizing science in a folksy way when we already know that (as a society) we are dangerously illiterate w/r/t/ scientific discourse, nuance, and rigor.
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By Chris Webb (via @chriseppstein) — a good discussion of how systems like SMACSS and OOCSS can go hand-in-hand with your CSS pre-processor. Let them work for and with each other, not against each other. (Part one of the essay series is worth reading, as well.)
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Steve Sanderson’s round-up of Throne of JS. Amazing post–I'm going to need to read it two or three more times to take it all in. Many thanks to Steve for putting the time and effort into a post like this.
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