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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by dclowd9901 on Saturday May 14, 2016 @03:45AM (#11694990)
Just try to interview as a front end engineer these days. Someone at Airbnb laughed at me because I used a for loop instead of lodash on an array. He said "wow, you write it old school."

Why write fast code when you can write triple transpiled bloats bullshit vis a vis Babel, flow and jsx.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by gmmeyer on Saturday May 14, 2016 @04:37AM (#11695121)
The best part of this: The native for loop is what lodash uses. It's the fastest way to do it.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by bhouston on Saturday May 14, 2016 @05:02AM (#11695197)
The issue is the callback, it introduces significant overhead because it is a new context with its own scope on a per callback basis.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by dclowd9901 on Saturday May 14, 2016 @12:37PM (#11696857)
Yes, exactly. I suppose if you registered the callback as a named function expression, a good js engine might be able to optimize on it and inline it, but I also don't like leaning on compilers so much.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by kingosticks on Saturday May 14, 2016 @04:25AM (#11695096)
I could honestly believe that is Airbnb's slogan. But I'm sad to believe they treated an interview candidate like that.

I hope you were able to use that tool to leverage a better job elsewhere and that he/she is no longer interviewing people at Airbnb.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by geuis on Saturday May 14, 2016 @04:21AM (#11695084)
Come check us out at https://massdrop.com
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by ThePaco on Saturday May 14, 2016 @02:19PM (#11697385)
I'm still sad Massdrop removed the vaping section, got a good deal on a keyboard though!
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by dclowd9901 on Sunday May 15, 2016 @03:30AM (#11699904)
You guys aren't hiring in Portland ;)
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