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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written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

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.

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# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
#
# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
# programs.
#
# Once you're done here, go to
# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
# to learn SOOOO much more.

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# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
#
# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
# programs.
#
# Once you're done here, go to
# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
# to learn SOOOO much more.

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#squatconf 2, Kickoff

Hi there, Some of us started to talk about the 2nd edition of squatconf, and this mailing list if a perfect point to start a broader discussion about it and share the infos for the one that was not there

what was actually talked about :

Location :

- BARCELONA 
- Amsterdam (ping realitygaps, webmind)

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Effective transpiling of ES6

After publishing my article on ECMAScript 6, some have reached out to ask how I exactly I make it all work.

I refrained from including these details on the original post because they're subject to inmiment obsoletion. The tools are changing and evolving quickly, and some of this knowledge is likely to become outdated in the coming months or even weeks.

The tool

When evaluating the available transpilers, I decided to use 6to5, which has recently been renamed to Babel. It features:

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var test = require('tape');
var bytewise = require('bytewise');
var encode = bytewise.encode;
var MIN = bytewise.MIN;
var MAX = bytewise.MAX;

test('tuple queries', function (t) {
  var yearly = tuples('reports', 'yearly');

  // component keys of the tuple space query are available by index

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MDB is unlike most debuggers you've experienced.

It is not a source level debugger like gdb or lldb or even Node's builtin debugger

Generally used for postmortem analysis.

Postmortem is for Production and Development

We operate mostly on core files, though you can attach to running processes as well.

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initscript="
start on started networking
stop on stopping networking

respawn
env HOME='/root'

exec wiki -f -p 80
"

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Interdisciplinary Open Source Community Conferences

Criteria

• Must be an event that someone involved in open source would be interested in attending
• Must be a community oriented event (no corporate owned for-profit events here please)
• Can't be about a specific language/framework.

Leave suggestions in the comments below

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/**
 * Simple userland heapdump generator using v8-profiler
 * Usage: require('[path_to]/HeapDump').init('datadir')
 *
 * @module HeapDump
 * @type {exports}
 */

var fs = require('fs');
var profiler = require('v8-profiler');