| 00:02 | <gsnedders> | zewt: IIRC because it minifies better |
| 00:02 | <zewt> | that's pretty disgusting |
| 00:02 | <zewt> | obfuscate code so that it obfuscates better |
| 00:20 | <TabAtkins> | Also: it shortens the scope chain between the code and the global in question, which provides questionable tiny perf benefits. |
| 00:21 | <gsnedders> | uh, an argument is in the same place as a local variable |
| 00:21 | <gsnedders> | at least in most JS VMs |
| 00:22 | <gsnedders> | oh, you mean when it's assigned |
| 00:22 | <gsnedders> | um, in the typical case JS VMs go straight to the global scope, and don't look at intermediatry scopes. |
| 00:22 | <gsnedders> | so there's no scope walking |
| 00:25 | <TabAtkins> | gsnedders: Yeah, thus the "questionable" part. |
| 00:26 | <TabAtkins> | jQuery was an early popularizer of the technique, so I bet a lot is cargo-culting. |
| 00:26 | <gsnedders> | well, it's not questionable unless you're using eval/with in an intermediatry scope |
| 00:26 | <gsnedders> | and if you are you deserve to burn in hell ;P |
| 00:26 | <zewt> | also the call-an-anonymous-function paradigm is usually one-off calls during initialization and not inner loops |
| 00:26 | <gsnedders> | direct eval, that is |
| 02:39 | <MikeSmith> | "using simple components that we understand and avoiding prematurely solving problems that aren't yet problems" |
| 02:39 | <MikeSmith> | http://githubengineering.com/rearchitecting-github-pages/ |
| 02:49 | <zewt> | re: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/515873591515049984 |
| 05:47 | <MikeSmith> | has there been any more progress on annevk's iframe[ansyc] idea |
| 07:26 | <tobie> | As promises and now streams are moving from the DOM directly into ES, are there plans to do the same with events? |
| 07:28 | <tobie> | Context: I'm working on the sensor API, the first draft of which inherits from EventTarget, which makes is unsuitable for implementation outside of the browser (e.g.: in node/io). |
| 08:03 | <hsivonen> | SimonSapin: I think we should get telemetry on the surrogate thing sooner than later. It seems improbable to me that it would be a compat problem to the point of making users reject the browser |
| 09:30 | <jgraham> | Who is this optimist and what have they done with the real hsivonen? |
| 13:20 | <wilsonpage> | hayato ping |
| 13:21 | <wilsonpage> | hayato do you know of any reference material for custom pseudo selectors? (or are they called 'name parts'?) |
| 19:13 | <gentguyman> | http://secure.hostgator.com/~affiliat/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=jimi13 great webserver deal |
| 19:13 | <gentguyman> | whisper me for the link |
| 19:43 | <caitp-> | what a deal |
| 20:54 | <JoWie> | the whisper command is not working |