more on JavaScript type quirks: A good companion piece to “why you should basically never use the Number constructorâ€, arriving at many of the same conclusions by many of the same methods.  However, I would disagree that the issue is with the equa…
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Each Second Counts, or Not:
The moral of the story here is to think simple when trying to optimize code, otherwise we end up going to far into optimizing and actually make the code more complex and likely slower, but this does not mean that the code w…
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Inspired by some recent entanglements with a vendor’s API: The type coercion will ultimately work in your favor but the main point is that the type coercion has to take place in the first place. Granted, it is probably an edge case 1 to do something like: …but you never know. There’s some strange code […]
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