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desandro / require-js-discussion.md
Created January 31, 2013 20:26
Can you help me understand the benefit of require.js?

I'm having trouble understanding the benefit of require.js. Can you help me out? I imagine other developers have a similar interest.

From Require.js - Why AMD:

The AMD format comes from wanting a module format that was better than today's "write a bunch of script tags with implicit dependencies that you have to manually order"

I don't quite understand why this methodology is so bad. The difficult part is that you have to manually order dependencies. But the benefit is that you don't have an additional layer of abstraction.


@andsens
andsens / bootstrap_homeshick.sh
Last active December 27, 2023 12:47
Script that can set up an entire user account with homeshick automatically
#!/bin/bash -ex
# Paste this into ssh
# curl -sL https://gist.github.com/andsens/2913223/raw/bootstrap_homeshick.sh | tar -xzO | /bin/bash -ex
# When forking, you can get the URL from the raw (<>) button.
### Set some command variables depending on whether we are root or not ###
# This assumes you use a debian derivate, replace with yum, pacman etc.
aptget='sudo apt-get'
chsh='sudo chsh'
@pfig
pfig / mkfavicon.sh
Created February 12, 2012 12:01
Make a multi-resolution favicon.ico from a source image, using ImageMagick
#!/bin/bash
# from
# http://bergamini.org/computers/creating-favicon.ico-icon-files-with-imagemagick-convert.html
convert source-WxW.png -resize 256x256 -transparent white favicon-256.png
convert favicon-256.png -resize 16x16 favicon-16.png
convert favicon-256.png -resize 32x32 favicon-32.png
convert favicon-256.png -resize 64x64 favicon-64.png
convert favicon-256.png -resize 128x128 favicon-128.png
@drewda
drewda / gist:1257765
Created October 2, 2011 18:51
selectively changing d3 elements when Backbone model changes
# note that this function is called whenever a GeoPoint model changes
# Backbone will pass in geo_point, which refers to the changed model
# @geo_points refers to the entire collection of GeoPoint models
# update the bound data
geo_points = @geo_points.reject (gp) => gp.get('markedForDelete')
geoPointMarkers = d3.select('#geo-point-layer').selectAll("g")
.data geo_points, (d) =>
d.cid
@cyberdelia
cyberdelia / mixin.py
Created September 21, 2011 08:26
Django class based view mixins
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.utils.cache import patch_response_headers
from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page, never_cache
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
class NeverCacheMixin(object):
@method_decorator(never_cache)
@hallettj
hallettj / global-variables-are-bad.js
Created February 14, 2009 21:15
How and why to avoid global variables in JavaScript
// It is important to declare your variables.
(function() {
var foo = 'Hello, world!';
print(foo); //=> Hello, world!
})();
// Because if you don't, the become global variables.
(function() {