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function awesome(predicateA, predicateB, foo, bar, baz) {
    if (predicateA)
        return foo
    else if (predicateB)
        return bar
    else
        return baz
}

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deleteButton.addEventListener('click', function(evt) {
    evt.preventDefault();
    deleteCode(article.id);
    return false;
});

deleteButton.addEventListener('click', (function (article) {
    return function(evt) {
        evt.preventDefault();
        deleteCode(article.id);

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if (x > y) 
  return A
else if (between(y, z)(x))
  return B
else if (between(d, e)(x))
  return C
else if (x > f)
  return D
else
  return null

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{"str": "own
ed"}

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var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var mkpath = require('mkpath');

// You probably want to pass in a callback to this function to send back errors, normally
var mkfile = function (filepath) {
    mkpath(path.dirname(filepath), function (err) {
        if (err) {
            console.log(err);
        } else {

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def translate(pigstri)
    vowels = [ "a", "e", "i", "o", "u", "y" ]
    pigstri
        .split(/ /, -1)
        .map { |x|
            first_vowel = x.chars.find_index { |x| vowels.include?(x) }
            if vowels.include?(x[0])
                x + "ay"
            elsif x[0..1].include?("qu")
                x[2..x.length] + x[0..1] + "ay"

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var util = require('util');

module.exports = function protoinspect(object) {
    return util.inspect(object) + (object.__proto__ ? protoinspect(object.__proto__) : '');
}

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[Original]

Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs matters

Brian Harvey University of California, Berkeley

In 2011, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of MIT, the Boston Globe made a list of the most important innovations developed there. They asked me to explain the importance of SICP, and this is what I sent them:

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var expect = require('chai').expect;

var identity = function (a) {
    return a;
}

var first = function (a, b, c) {
    return a;
}

jonvuri

function makeSplat(length) {
    var splat = [];

    while (length-- > 0) {
        splat[length] = _;
    }

    return splat;
}