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Questions I have asked others/myself while learning @nteractio

These are all questions I've asked myself and others while working on nteract

Find out the answers by asking people the questions/ searching on your own.


  • What is a mimetype?
  • How do I store the result of a callback function for later use?
  • What is a switchMap?
  • What is a higher order function?
  • What is OAuth?
  • What is an agreed upon number of tabs or spaces for code styling?
  • Me to Safia: Can you explain to me what Kyle just said?
  • Me to Kyle: Can you explain to me what Safia just said?
  • Plenty of questions regarding the jupyter messaging spec...
  • Why is my code not working? (Probably too often...)
  • What is a promise?
  • What is a pure function?
  • What is a side-effect?
  • What is an observable? How is it different than a stream?
  • What is a REPL?
  • What is CRUD?
  • Why are there so so so many abbreviations in programming?
  • Why do we need ZMQ for kernel communications?
  • Why can't we upgrade our version of electron?
  • Why is a kernelspec?
  • How should we test behavior of an API?
  • What is an API? (Not just its three letter acronym)
  • Am I asking too many questions?
  • Why are plugins hard?
  • How do I talk to other programmers?
  • What is endianness?
  • What is a UUID?
  • Why is everything a const?
  • What does it mean for a language to be typed?
  • What benefits do we get from immutable data structures?
  • What is the difference between ZMQStatic and ZMQ-Prebuilt?
  • What is the difference between state.app.get('property') and state.app.property?
  • .... more to come.
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