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Today I had a brief debate on twitter about AMD vs CommonJS, https://twitter.com/TechWraith/status/441387541778808832. It's a debate worth having for sure. But I had to bail out of this one. The thing that annoyed me is that the first argument that people bring up to disquality AMD is "the syntax is too complex". I disagree with this. There are lots of reasons to prefer CommonJS over AMD, but the module authoring syntax is not a very good one. There was also a related statement that AMD authoring introduces more "cognitive overhead". This is absolutely true. But I don't consider this to be synonymous with "complexity" by any means.

So I thought I'd explore some comparable examples. Here's a simple one that was offered up by someone else in the thread. This was on twitter so I can forgive erring on the side of brevity.

AMD

define('myThing', ['some', 'deps'], function (some, deps) {
  //my code
  
 return myThing;

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"broad question: how does fast load work? site is a one page app, switches categories similarly, but no URL relation."

https://twitter.com/drewdil/status/452228299150721024

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https://microsoft-my.sharepoint.com/personal/marcoro_microsoft_com/_layouts/15/WopiFrame.aspx?sourcedoc={017C4530-D5CF-4E6D-BC75-6BA97A5D7EB1}&file=Notes&action=default&RootFolder=%2fpersonal%2fmarcoro_microsoft_com%2fDocuments%2fYammer%2fNotes

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def format_number(num):
  numstr = str(num)
  chunks = []
  while numstr:
    numstr, newchunk = numstr[:-3], numstr[-3:]
    chunks.append(newchunk)
  return ','.join(chunks[::-1])

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/**
 * Autolink urls in text
 * Optionally autolink usernames and hashtags in twitter text
 */

function autolink(txt){
    if(!txt) return;
    var txtstr = txt + ''; //make sure it's a string
    var url_re = /(http(s)?:\/\/[^\s)]+)/ig;
    return txtstr.replace(url_re, '<a href="$1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">$1</a>') || txt;

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"""
various python utils just for my reference
"""

# convert string to datetime
import time
from datetime import datetime
day = datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.strptime(d, '%B %d, %Y')))

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var sys = require('sys');

var XML = require('libxmljs');
var doc = null;

function mem() {
    sys.debug(sys.inspect(process.memoryUsage()).replace(/\n/g, ''));
    sys.debug(sys.inspect(XML.memoryUsage()));
}

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/** 
 * simple.tal file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<div xmlns:tal="http://axiomstack.com/tale">
    <p id="testing" tal:omit="true">
        Hello <span tal:content="data.name"/>
        You have just won $<span tal:content="data.value"/>!
        <span tal:if="data.in_ca">
        Well, $<span tal:content="data.taxed_value"/>, after taxes.

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/*
 * Simple example of using fs methods to append to a file
 */
var sys = require('sys'),
    fs = require('fs');

fs.open('my.log', 'a', undefined, function(err, fd) {
            if(err) throw err;

            fs.write(fd, 'Appending to this file\n', undefined, undefined, function(err, written) {

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npm configfile /Users/polotek/.npmrc
npm sudo false
npm install pkg npm
npm fetch data npm
npm response
npm install pkg npm
npm install pkg npm@0.1.4
npm install pkg http://github.com/isaacs/npm/tarball/v0.1.4
npm fetch http://github.com/isaacs/npm/tarball/v0.1.4 to /Users/polotek/.node_libraries/.npm/.tmp/http---github-com-isaacs-npm-tarball-v0-1-4-1273332589145-0.8430941854603589.tgz
npm fetch http://github.com/isaacs/npm/tarball/v0.1.4