Chris Barmonde chrisbarmonde

Edit — February 2019

This gist had a far larger impact than I imagined it would, and apparently people are still finding it, so a quick update:

TC39 is currently moving forward with a slightly different version of TLA, referred to as 'variant B', in which a module with TLA doesn't block sibling execution. This vastly reduces the danger of parallelizable work happening in serial and thereby delaying startup, which was the concern that motivated me to write this gist
In the wild, we're seeing (async main(){...}()) as a substitute for TLA. This completely eliminates the blocking problem (yay!) but it's less powerful, and harder to statically analyse (boo). In other words the lack of TLA is causing real problems
Therefore, a version of TLA that solves the original issue is a valuable addition to the language, and I'm in full support of the current proposal, which you can read here.

I'll leave the rest of this document unedited, for archaeological

... my first disclosure. Man, it feels weird doing this.

update 6/6/16 I would like to stress something: I'm not saying "Don't buy an ASUS device" -- I see a lot of people who want to lambaste ASUS for this and boycott their hardware. This isn't what I want people to be doing by any stretch. Stupidly, I like the ASUS hardware I have (it's nice for the price) and I would rather see a pressure on ASUS as an OEM to stop shipping "value added software" to consumers; If you want to help Microsoft in pushing this mentality, go buy a signature machine from them. Microsoft provides support, but also only ships windows and a few select utilities that are essential to the functioning of the system (think: Radeon/Optimus and nVidia control panels) and fall heavily on the hardware makers (ATI, nVidia, Intel) to provide support for the harware.

Consider an ASUS device all you want. Start putting pressure on Microsoft that consumers want bloat-free devices and start voting with your money. Microsoft's store

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');

List of JavaScript Build Tools

Yet another framework syndrome

Name	Date	URL	Stars
Jake	April 2010	https://github.com/mde/jake	1000
Brunch	January 2011	http://brunch.io/	3882
~~smoosh~~	~~March 2011~~	~~https://github.com/fat/smoosh~~	~~329~~
~~anvil.js~~	~~February 2012~~	~~https://github.com/anviljs/anvil.js~~	~~161~~


	class DisableMigrations(object):

	def __contains__(self, item):
	return True

	def __getitem__(self, item):
	return "notmigrations"

	MIGRATION_MODULES = DisableMigrations()

	# Add auto-completion and a stored history file of commands to your Python
	# interactive interpreter. Requires Python 2.0+, readline. Autocomplete is
	# bound to the Esc key by default (you can change it - see readline docs).
	#
	# Store the file in ~/.python_startup, and set an environment variable to point
	# to it: "export PYTHONSTARTUP=$HOME/.python_startup" in bash.
	#
	# Note that PYTHONSTARTUP does not expand "~", so you have to put in the
	# full path to your home directory.

	# Compiled source #
	###################
	*.com
	*.class
	*.dll
	*.exe
	*.o
	*.so

	# Packages #

	#!/bin/sh
	echo "[post-rewrite hook: $1]"

	# by noahgrant & digitaljhelms
	#
	# quick script to call "bower install" and "npm install" automatically if
	# bower.json or package.json are changed, respectively
	#
	# this assumes one top-level file for each

	#!/usr/bin/ruby
	# Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use RGB mode for Display
	# see http://embdev.net/topic/284710

	require 'base64'

	data=`ioreg -l -d0 -w 0 -r -c AppleDisplay`

	edids=data.scan(/IODisplayEDID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i).flatten
	vendorids=data.scan(/DisplayVendorID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten

	# A guide to prevent pain and suffering while upgrading to OS X Mavericks
	# This will vary greatly depending on system set up, so read the instructions carefully

	# Back up Virtulenvs
	####################

	# Very important!
	# For each virtualenv you have, run "pip freeze > requirements.txt" while in the activated virtualenv
	# in order to prevent loss of dependencies during the upgrade.