getify

function logger(strings,...values) {
   var str = "";
   for (let i = 0; i < strings.length; i++) {
      if (i > 0) {
         if (values[i-1] && typeof values[i-1] == "object") {
            if (values[i-1] instanceof Error) {
               if (values[i-1].stack) {
                  str += values[i-1].stack;
                  continue;
               }

jabley

CoEd:Ethics

Introduction by Anne Currie (@anne_e_currie)

• Why are we here?
  • Is there a problem with ethics in and around technology use at the moment?
  • If there is an issue, what can we as engineers do about it?
    • What might stop me?
    • How can I get around that?
• There is a workbook for the conference
  • It looks a bit like the ones DareConf used to do

ept

Notes from Coed:Ethics conference, London, 13 July 2018

Cori Crider - "When data kills" / Weaponised AI

• Imam Salem bin Ali Jaber preached in Yemen against Islamic extremism; guest at a wedding of relative; hit by a US Hellfire missile fired from a drone. Relative Faisal made contact with Cori, went to Washington DC. No explanation ever made by government (although compensation was paid).
• Decision-making process behind the attack not known exactly. But there is significant evidence that such attacks serve to further radicalise people; attack results in ~3x more new recruits than extremists killed by attack.
• Most drone attacks are not on named individuals, but rather "signature strikes" — a euphemism for killing people the military doesn't even know, but who match a certain behavioural pattern (perhaps based on metadata — Hayden: "we kill people based on metadata"
• Skynet (known through Snowden relevations): use machine learning to try to find courier

developit

state-machine-component

A tiny (265 byte) utility to create state machine components using two pure functions.

🔥 JSFiddle Demo

Usage

The API is a single function that accepts 2 pure functions as arguments:

jevakallio

TL;DR: If you want to see me perform a spoken word poem about JavaScript in front of 1000 people (and on video), please ⭐ star this gist. If you're on mobile, you'll need to request desktop site.

JavaScript Slam Poetry

jdegoes

Applied Functional Programming with Scala - Notes

Copyright © 2016-2018 Fantasyland Institute of Learning. All rights reserved.

1. Mastering Functions

A function is a mapping from one set, called a domain, to another set, called the codomain. A function associates every element in the domain with exactly one element in the codomain. In Scala, both domain and codomain are types.

val square : Int => Int = x => x * x

iammerrick

import React from 'react';

const MIN_SCALE = 1;
const MAX_SCALE = 4;
const SETTLE_RANGE = 0.001;
const ADDITIONAL_LIMIT = 0.2;
const DOUBLE_TAP_THRESHOLD = 300;
const ANIMATION_SPEED = 0.04;
const RESET_ANIMATION_SPEED = 0.08;
const INITIAL_X = 0;

isaacs

Promises vs Eventual Values

A few times on Twitter, I've complained that Promises are a poor conceptual stand-in for Eventual Values.

A colleague of mine pointed out that I tweet this or something like it every few months. He's correct, I do.

The responses usually flow in saying something to the effect of "Well,

bterlson

Pattern Matching

This is a strawman proposal for adding pattern matching to ECMAScript. Pattern matching is useful for matching a value to some structure in a similar way to destructuring. The primary difference between destructuring and pattern matching are the use cases involved - destructuring is useful for binding pieces out of larger structures whereas pattern matching is useful for mapping a value's structure to data or a set of behaviors. In practice this means that destructuring tends to allow many shapes of data and will do its best to bind something out of it, whereas pattern matching will tend to be more conservative.

Additionally, the power of pattern matching is increased substantially when values are allowed to participate in the pattern matching semantics as a matcher as well as a matchee. This proposal includes the notion of a pattern matching protocol - a symbol method that can be implemented by objects that enables developers to use those values in pattern matching. A common scenario w

DmitrySoshnikov

@kangax's ES6 quiz, explained

@kangax created a new interesting quiz, this time devoted to ES6 (aka ES2015). I found this quiz very interesting and quite hard (made myself 3 mistakes on first pass).

Here we go with the explanations:

Question 1:

(function(x, f = () => x) {