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John Hann
Personal blog · unscriptable.comprogrammingweb
John Hann's personal blog at unscriptable.com covers programming and web. Since 2009, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link John Hann's post explaining JavaScript closures, which the author calls the most practical explanation of closures; the linked post is the only one discussed in the comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I don't believe this is "the most practical explanation of closures out there" as the author claims, but it does present a use-case. The most important thing to grasp if you're fussed about naming concepts in JavaScript is the difference between a function, a scope [1], a closure [2], and an IIFE [3]. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen... [2] http://unscriptable.com/2011/10/02/closures-…
Comment linking /2011/10/02/closures-for-dummies-or-why-iife-closure/
on “Understand closures”Submitted Closures for Dummies (or why IIFE == closure) as a story · 13 points
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HN discussionSubmitted AMD vs. CommonJS. Which is better? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debouncing Javascript methods as a story · 1 points
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