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Restuta / the-bind-problem.jsx
Last active March 16, 2024 00:22
React, removeEventListener and bind(this) gotcha
/* Sometimes it's pretty easy to run ito troubles with React ES6 components.
Consider the following code: */
class EventStub extends Component {
componentDidMount() {
window.addEventListener('resize', this.onResize.bind(this)); //notice .bind
}
componentWillUnmount() {
window.removeEventListener('resize', this.onResize.bind(this));
@zmwangx
zmwangx / markdown-latex-etc.md
Last active April 26, 2024 12:37
An incomplete guide to Markdown, LaTeX, and more, initially written for Jiawen Li.

Markdown, LaTeX, etc.

Caution

  • (10/30/2016) I am not sure when and how this gist gained quite a few stars... But as stated in the v1.13 change log (from 06/16/2015): some content may be outdated, and I am not going to fix them. Moreover, having learned much myself, I do not necessarily agree with every point made in this document from 2.5 years ago. Therefore, please take views from this document with a grain of salt, and do further research as you see fit.

  • This document was initally written for a friend of mine, Jiawen Li, so it might reflect some personal tastes here and there. For instance, some discussions are geared towards Windows, though *nix is obviously superior. For another example, when I say "you seem to love Sublime Text a lot," I'm certainly not expecting most people to love Sublime (in fact I never used it for more than three minutes in a row).

  • This document is written in Markdown. The Markdown rendering engine on GitHub Gist is somewhat limited a

@DTrejo
DTrejo / top3stories.js
Created January 21, 2011 22:41
Gets top three articles from frontpage and newpage of Hacker News. Blog post on scraping: http://blog.dtrejo.com/scraping-made-easy-with-jquery-and-selectorga
// Scraping Made Easy with jQuery and SelectorGadget
// (http://blog.dtrejo.com/scraping-made-easy-with-jquery-and-selectorga)
// by David Trejo
//
// Install node.js and npm:
// http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/
// Then run
// npm install jsdom jquery http-agent
// node numresults.js
//