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Today I got an email from a recruiter. I get a lot of emails from recruiters, but unlike most this guy recognized I wouldn't be able to take his job opening. Instead, he asked me a question:

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I thought that you might be the right person to ask. Is raw js still a must for any talented, cutting-edge front-end engineer? I only ask because I’ve basically been told to nix anyone that relies on libraries.

Thats a good question to ask, but it's a very complicated question as well. I think I'll give my answer in the form of an analogy.

My dad is a carpenter, by trade. He has a workshop shed in his back yard that is full of all sorts of tools. I can remember that when I was a kid, at least once a month, he'd buy some new tool from the hardware store that would enable him to do something significantly easier than he could before. Different kinds of clamps for different types of glue joining. New bits for his router that would let would let him create some new intricate shape to the edge of a frame. S

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I have a bit of a story before I get to my point, so please hang with me here.

I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. My parents, my grandmother, one of my uncles, and all of my cousins are JWs. While I was never "active" in the faith, I continued involvement and attendance until I was 23 years old, when I moved out of my mother's house. Since I had continued attending the congregation so long, I had established many friendships with people in the local congregation.

If you ever come across a thread on Reddit or other discussion boards where former JWs are describing their experiences, you find a common theme. Many, upon announcing that they don't want any further involvement with the church, become ostracized from their families and friends. If the person was baptized, this may be the result of the person being "dis-fellowshipped", essentially a congregation level policy of not engaging with that individual on a personal level (meaning casual association).

Dis-fellowshipping is not shunning or banishmen

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var denyRoutes = express.Router();

denyRoutes
	.use(denyAnon)
	.get('/listdocs',                           handlers.listdocs)
	.get('/viewer',                             handlers.viewer)
	.get('/viewer/:filename',                   handlers.viewer)
	.get('/getdoc',                             handlers.getdoc)
	.post('/savedoc',         bodyParser, csrf, handlers.savedoc)

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1. Anna leaves on horseback just five minutes after Elsa runs off, AND rides a sleigh up the mountain, yet somehow is completely unable to catch up to her sister who is on foot.

2. "You think you have it bad? I sell ice for a living."

   This is a terrible way to transport ice in the middle of summer. A sleigh would be unmovable without snow on the ground, and the ice would start to melt before he got to his destination. So either Kristoff is trying to use a sleigh in summer, or he's deliberately trying to sell ice in the middle of a freak snow storm. Either way, he is horrible at his job.

3. After dropping Anna off at the castle, Kristoff manages to walk a mile up-hill in snow in only a few minutes. This movie has no sense of how far a person can walk in snow.

4. And where is Kristoff going? He doesn't have a sleigh any more, and he's walking away from town, where his business would have been based.

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var net = require('net');
var clients = [];
var total = 0;

net.createServer(function (socket) {
	clients.push(socket);
	var id = clients.length -1;
	var name = 'User ' + (++total);
	socket._name = name;

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var Emitter = require('events').EventEmitter;

module.exports = function (target) {
	if (!target) {target = new Emitter();}
	if (target.proxyTo) {return target;}

	var oldEmit = target.emit;
	target.preProxies = [];
	target.postProxies = [];

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var proxmis = require('proxmis');

var parse = function (callback) {
	return function (err, value) {
		if (err) {
			callback(err);
		} else {
			try {
				value = JSON.parse(value);

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var through2  = require('through2');
var path      = require('path');
var gulp      = require('gulp');

gulp.task('bootstrap', function () {
	return gulp.src('./node_modules/bootstrap/js/*.js')
		.pipe(through2.obj(function transform (file, enc, next) {
			if (file.isNull()) {
				this.push(file); // pass along
				return next();

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$ traceroute google.com
traceroute: Warning: google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.224.194
traceroute to google.com (74.125.224.194), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.535 ms  0.369 ms  0.273 ms
 2  10.130.0.1 (10.130.0.1)  10.788 ms  10.516 ms  11.649 ms
 3  * pwy1aggc01-gex0414.sd.sd.cox.net (68.6.11.78)  15.898 ms  15.429 ms
 4  * * *
 5  * fed1dsrj02-xe130.0.rd.sd.cox.net (68.6.8.4)  28.982 ms  32.966 ms
 6  sanjbprj01-ae0.0.rd.sj.cox.net (68.1.5.184)  31.211 ms *  32.996 ms
 7  * paltbprj02-ae1-308.rd.pt.cox.net (68.105.31.37)  30.750 ms  30.803 ms

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<Venn->  Someone's just installed Windows 8 in our office ...
<Venn->  One of the secretaries said she's not coming to work tomorrow if Windows 7 isn't back on her machine again
<chiper> 8, not 8.1?
<Venn->  and two people went home early
<Venn->  saying they'd bad headaches
<chiper> wait, across the entire office?
<Venn->  yup, very bright IT dept.
<Venn->  A load of people are saying they can no longer use their PCs
<Venn->  and need to go on training courses
<chiper> fucking hell.  you don't just deploy that shit overnight