Last weekend On The Media ran a repeat airing of their excellent episode on online business models. One of the segments is an interview with AdBlock Plus CEO Till Faida, who defends their eyebrow-raising business model of charging large companies to not block their ads. Yesterday Salon ran an article on the travails of online [&]

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Last weekend On The Media ran a repeat airing of their excellent episode on online business models. One of the segments is an interview with AdBlock Plus CEO Till Faida, who defends their eyebrow-raising business model of charging large companies to not block their ads. Yesterday Salon ran an article on the travails of online [&]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/justdiscourse/browsing/~3/Zb39klvUNuw/

Last weekend On The Media ran a repeat airing of their excellent episode on online business models. One of the segments is an interview with AdBlock Plus CEO Till Faida, who defends their eyebrow-raising business model of charging large companies to not block their ads. Yesterday Salon ran an article on the travails of online [&]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/justdiscourse/browsing/~3/n-qKK2gahOs/

Reduce (a.k.a. foldl) is one of my all-time favorite higher-order functions. Its kinda sorta the crane stance of the functional style kung-fu: you dont want to use it a lot but when you do it can save the day. Every now and then you come across an array and you want to combine its items somehow [&]

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Reduce (a.k.a. foldl) is one of my all-time favorite higher-order functions. Its kinda sorta the crane stance of the functional style kung-fu: you dont want to use it a lot but when you do it can save the day. Every now and then you come across an array and you want to combine its items somehow [&]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/justdiscourse/browsing/~3/68WBAgWZhzk/

Reduce (a.k.a. foldl) is one of my all-time favorite higher-order functions. Its kinda sorta the crane stance of the functional style kung-fu: you dont want to use it a lot but when you do it can save the day. Every now and then you come across an array and you want to combine its items somehow [&]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/justdiscourse/browsing/~3/1m-GsL6uZXs/

Lets face it: the map function (a.k.a. apply-to-all) is pretty simple. You just pass it an array and a function and it returns an array of results of that function applied to each item. Whats it all about then? Here comes the important bit: the new array will have the same size as the original one. Always. [&]

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Lets face it: the map function (a.k.a. apply-to-all) is pretty simple. You just pass it an array and a function and it returns an array of results of that function applied to each item. Whats it all about then? Here comes the important bit: the new array will have the same size as the original one. Always. [&]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/justdiscourse/browsing/~3/mY0IbtUChpY/

Adding a toolbar button in a Firefox extension is simple. Since the Firefox user interface is described using XUL, it is enough to inject a snippet of XUL into the toolbar palette in browser.xul. Traditionally this would be done with a XUL overlay. Experienced XUL developers know that a button added like this wont show [&]

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Adding a toolbar button in a Firefox extension is simple. Since the Firefox user interface is described using XUL, it is enough to inject a snippet of XUL into the toolbar palette in browser.xul. Traditionally this would be done with a XUL overlay. Experienced XUL developers know that a button added like this wont show [&]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/justdiscourse/browsing/~3/MUesiHZDnhs/