Zach Pomerantz zzmp

No, they're not, but they might seem that way when you first meet them. Thanks to Hack Reactor, I no longer think of them that way. After a deep dive and some BackBone, you won't either. Here's what I'm going to cover:

Why: What makes events so special
How: How a basic event system works
Backbone: A pitfall of the Event API

Bonus round: DOM Event API

If you're comfortable with eventing systems, you'll probably want to skip to section three.

	Latency Comparison Numbers
	--------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 0.01 ms
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 0.15 ms

	### Keybase proof

	I hereby claim:

	* I am zzmp on github.
	* I am zmp (https://keybase.io/zmp) on keybase.
	* I have a public key whose fingerprint is AF20 1653 C7D5 8AB0 3F14 D622 0352 EC88 AE09 42D8

	To claim this, I am signing this object:

	// This code is meant to accompany this [blog entry](http://www.garabagne.io/2014/12/15/spellchecker/).
	// It was inspired primarily by [this article](http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html).

	Spellchecker = function() {
	/** A spellchecker.
	* _Will suggest more common spellings of questionable words._
	* @class Spellchecker
	* @param {string} [text] - space-separated text, as from a book, to use for initial training
	* @example
	* // someText = 'hello world'

	/* REPO UNWATCHER
	*
	* This unwatches any repo that you don't specify.
	* It must be run from the console while you are at https://github.com/watching
	*
	* No need to edit any code - the instructions will prompt you to list out the repos you'd like to keep watching!
	*/

	var repo;
	var repos = [];