drewlesueur

How to Generate the Y-Combinator in CoffeeScript

Problem

For fun, let's say you are programming in a language that doesn't allow variable assignments and you still want to make a recursive function. Although you can't assign variables, you can use functions (and enclosed function arguments). Can you make a function recursive without calling it by name?

Lets try implementing the factorial function. First with a function calling itself by name, then with a funtion that never calls itself by name

Here is the implementation of factorial that calls itself by name. It's a simple recursive function

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

rociiu

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

shuhei

/node_modules
/build

jmont

// Swift Monads -- Maybe
// Juan C. Montemayor (@norsemelon)

// This operator can be used to chain Optional types like so:
// optionalVal >>= f1 >>= f2
// where f1 and f2 have type `Any -> Any?`
//
// If a value is ever nil, the chain short-circuits and will result in nil.
// This is a much neater way to do this than using the if syntax specified in
// the Swift iBook.

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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kachayev

Channels Are Not Enough

... or Why Pipelining Is Not That Easy

Golang Concurrency Patterns for brave and smart.

By @kachayev

Intro

ericelliott

Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

rattrayalex

Bacon = require('baconjs')
Imm = require('immutable')
React = require('react')

window.Actions =
  changeFirstName: new Bacon.Bus()
  changeLastName: new Bacon.Bus()
  changeCountry: new Bacon.Bus()
  addCountryBird: new Bacon.Bus()
  addFriend: new Bacon.Bus()

danielgtaylor

Moving to ES6 from CoffeeScript

I fell in love with CoffeeScript a couple of years ago. Javascript has always seemed something of an interesting curiosity to me and I was happy to see the meteoric rise of Node.js, but coming from a background of Python I really preferred a cleaner syntax.

In any fast moving community it is inevitable that things will change, and so today we see a big shift toward ES6, the new version of Javascript. It incorporates a handful of the nicer features from CoffeeScript and is usable today through tools like Babel. Here are some of my thoughts and issues on moving away from CoffeeScript in favor of ES6.

While reading I suggest keeping open a tab to Babel's learning ES6 page. The examples there are great.

Punctuation

Holy punctuation, Batman! Say goodbye to your whitespace and hello to parenthesis, curly braces, and semicolons again. Even with the advanced ES6 syntax you'll find yourself writing a lot more punctuatio