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// A response to jashkenas's fine proposal for minimalist JavaScript classes.

// Harmony always stipulated classes as sugar, so indeed we are keeping current
// JavaScript prototype semantics, and classes would only add a syntactic form
// that can desugar to ES5. This is mostly the same assumption that Jeremy
// chose, but I've stipulated ES5.

// Where I part company is on reusing the object literal. It is not the syntax
// most classy programmers expect, coming from other languages. It has annoying
// and alien overhead, namely colons and commas. For JS community members who

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// create an array of terms from an array of objects
for item in trend.search_terms
  search_terms.push(item.term)
  

// while a part of the array is left
while search_terms.length > 0

  // create a mini array of 7 items
  for num in [0..7]

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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

First things first:

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var a = {};

a.foo = function() {
  return "foo";
}

a.bar = function() {
  return "bar";
}

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// put inside a .js file, referenced on the page by the resource's URI
// Create a local variable to hold `jQuery', so you type less.
// Using $ is stupíd, since that symbol is (by ES5 specs) reserved for
// machine-generated code.
void function(j) {
    function get_data() {
        // use functions to abstract code sections
        function get_item(i)  { return data[i].high + '<br>' + ~~(Math.random() * 111) }
        function update(idx)  { return j('#high').html(get_item(idx))                  }
        function process(data){ return j.each(data, update)                            }

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var http = require('http');
var fs   = require('fs');
var url  = require('url');

var settingsPath='settings2.json';

var Server = function(path){
	this.readSettings(path);
}

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var sDate = new Date()
  , today = new Date()
  , str   = ""
  , node;

sDate.setFullYear(2011, 0, 1);

if (sDate > today) {
    str = sDate.getFullYear() }
else {