December 2011
3 posts
Bootstrap an Audience
Louis CK has been all over the internet this past week. First he wrote a very personal missive urging people not to pirate his new show, he was on Reddit, and now he’s shown that this experiment payed off.
When Kevin Smith decided to independently distribute and market his movie Red State, many people said he would fail miserably. But he did the math and he knew he’d be able to make...
Instance Variable Shelf
Too often I see code that does the following:
declare('Foo', {
constructor: function(input) {
this._input = input;
return new Bar(this._input)
}
});
Chances are that Bar also copies input into an instance variable. Soon there’s a chain of three or four classes all maintaining input’s state. If Bar later updates input with a new struct, all of the other copies are...
Simple Ain't Easy
We watched another video during our Lunch and Learn Fridays. In this one, Rich Hickey masterfully draws the line between simple and easy. It’s been over a month since I first saw it but his words are still burning in my mind.
Hickey’s talk focuses on two common words; simple and easy. Think about easy as near at hand or familiar and simple as uncomplicated. And while we rarely think...