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Daily Archives: December 18, 2014

“…they haunt it.”

by not another Rob?

“In his introduction to the collection [“Beyond Armageddon”], Miller noted that the stories shared a nostalgia for things that have been lost. “Post-Megawar stories are about an afterlife,” Miller wrote. “Survivors don’t really live in such a world; they haunt it.””

Jon Michaud, A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders (The New Yorker)

Remy Sharp: My five promise patterns

by !undefined

My five promise patterns:

Remy Sharp’s write-up of several patterns that have emerged from his usage of promises. By itself I feel like this one winds up reading a lot like a few other Promise-related posts that I’ve seen (and/or like an inverse of this anti-patterns post) — but his discussion around throw vs. reject is worth the price of admission.