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Last active October 19, 2016 03:02
uTorrent installs Spigot adware silently

TL;DR

Recently, uTorrent started to install Spigot adware silently (how to remove it).

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I installed uTorrent 1.8.7 yesterday with Homebrew Cask. I was surprised at the end of the download that Brew asks me to run something manually:

To complete the installation of Cask utorrent, you must also
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Created October 13, 2016 20:35
React: stopPropagation VS nativeEvent.stopImmediatePropagation

TL;DR

If you mix JS event listeners and React event listeners, you need

event.nativeEvent.stopImmediatePropagation()

Scenario

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Last active October 14, 2016 15:24
Myth: JavaScript and tools deprecation

TL;DR

We have mostly used the same tools for years. People feel that React or Webpack are the new hype tools for cool kids, but React is there since 2013 and Webpack since 2012. A lot of companies still use Angular 1 (released in 2010, almost 7 years ago).

Complaints

I often read complaints about how fast the libraries/frameworks/tools are replaced with other ones in the front-end world.

For example in a recent Hacker News discussion: