Month: December 2010

  • The Great void of JavaScript

    In JavaScript, you often see code like this: // 1 (function() { a bunch of code; })(); The code in the function runs immediately and allows you to avoid namespace collisions with other code. If the code includes (inner) functions, those functions are essentially private. In fact, they will go away if there are no…

  • By Any Other Descriptor

    I really have not been paying attention. Apparently there are various editions of Shakespeare’s works, with vastly different text among them, with no definitive versions. In fact, the earliest versions seem to be considered the least reliable. This is the opposite of how original publications of musical works are generally treated, where urtext (original text)…