duplicates = multiple editions
A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory, Kenneth Ireland Michael Rosen
A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory, Kenneth Ireland Michael Rosen
This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.
Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:
getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
// the rest of your code goes here.
In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:
http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/
It became a big deal:
http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1
The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)
LINK_DETECTION_REGEX = /(([a-z]+:\/\/)?(([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+([a-z]{2}|aero|arpa|biz|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|jobs|mil|museum|name|nato|net|org|pro|travel|local|internal))(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/[a-z0-9_\-\.~]+)*(\/([a-z0-9_\-\.]*)(\?[a-z0-9+_\-\.%=&]*)?)?(#[a-zA-Z0-9!$&'()*+.=-_~:@/?]*)?)(\s+|$)/gi | |
EMOJI_DIRECTORY = "/path/to/assets/emoji/20x20" | |
# Handlebars is presumed, but you could swap out | |
ESCAPE_EXPRESSION_FUNCTION = Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression | |
MARKSAFE_FUNCTION = (str) -> new Handlebars.SafeString(str) | |
# Emoji unicode chars become images. |