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written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.
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.
A lot of math grad school is reading books and papers and trying to understand what's going on. The difficulty is that reading math is not like reading a mystery thriller, and it's not even like reading a history book or a New York Times article.
The main issue is that, by the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don't really exist yet. Communicating these ideas is a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.
What can you say?
This describes my basic Arch Linux installation on my Chromebook Pixel.
Note: I'm a coward, so I installed Arch to an SD card instead of wiping out the existing SSD.
| # Install ARCH Linux with encrypted file-system and UEFI | |
| # The official installation guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide) contains a more verbose description. | |
| # Download the archiso image from https://www.archlinux.org/ | |
| # Copy to a usb-drive | |
| dd if=archlinux.img of=/dev/sdX bs=16M && sync # on linux | |
| # Boot from the usb. If the usb fails to boot, make sure that secure boot is disabled in the BIOS configuration. | |
| # Set swedish keymap |
2015-01-29 Unofficial Relay FAQ
Compilation of questions and answers about Relay from React.js Conf.
Disclaimer: I work on Relay at Facebook. Relay is a complex system on which we're iterating aggressively. I'll do my best here to provide accurate, useful answers, but the details are subject to change. I may also be wrong. Feedback and additional questions are welcome.
Relay is a new framework from Facebook that provides data-fetching functionality for React applications. It was announced at React.js Conf (January 2015).
| /* | |
| A pure ES6-style composable React component that handles clicks outside of a HTML node. | |
| This is for those who prefers composibility over mixins. | |
| Simply drop-in the event listener component into your React component. | |
| Adapted from: https://github.com/Pomax/react-onclickoutside | |
| */ | |
| var React = require('react'); |
Emacs packages, features, files, layers, extensions, auto-loading, require,
provide, use-package… All these terms getting you confused? Let’s clear up
a few things.
Emacs files contains code that can be evaluated. When evaluated, the functions, macros and modes defined in that file become available to the current Emacs session. Henceforth, this will be termed as loading a file.
One major problem is to ensure that all the correct files are loaded, and in the
#Translating Marty to Redux
Some people have asked how I've translated a Marty app to Redux. Once you get your head around how Redux works I found concepts in Marty translated easily. Below is side-by-side comparison of the two libraries to help you along the way.
Also if you're looking for some devtools, check out redux-devtools.
##Constants
Marty
A maintainable application architecture requires that the UI only contain the rendering logic and execute queries and mutations against the underlying data model on the server. A maintainable architecture must not contain any logic for composing "app state" on the client as that would necessarily embed business logic in the client. App state should be persisted to the database and the client projection of it should be composed in the mid tier, and refreshed as mutations occur on the server (and after network interruption) for a highly interactive, realtime UX.
With GraphQL we are able to define an easy-to-change application-level data schema on the server that captures the types and relationships in our data, and wiring it to data sources via resolvers that leverage our db's own query language (or data-oriented, uniform service APIs) to resolve client-specified "queries" and "mutations" against the schema.
We use GraphQL to dyn
