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Yakov Fain
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Yakov Fain's personal blog at yakovfain.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Yakov Fain's posts as background on developer hiring and on JavaScript top-level await and IIFEs. The comments cite the posts without judging them.
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What Hacker News says?
You're right[0], which is weird because they got most of the way there. I guess I just assumed since they were leveraging IIFEs this would be a natural use case. I'd be interested in knowing why they didn't actually. According to this[1] exchange on Stack Overflow, the IIFE is used by TypeScript because of other scoping issues (specifically protecting class properties before instantiation and defining interfaces). […
Comment linking /2015/06/30/the-private-in-typescript-is-kinda-private/
on “V8 adds support for top-level await”Submitted How serious is Google about Dart? as a story · 95 points
HN discussionAlso consider that you might be below market rate and all the good guys are passing on you. The story reminds me of a blog post from a while ago [1] which concluded with an update that after raising his rates by $5 the first candidate to apply passed with flying colors. [1] http://yakovfain.com/2012/10/11/the-degradation-of-java-deve... .
Comment linking /2012/10/11/the-degradation-of-java-deve..
on “Ask HN: Am I being too hard on the developers I interview?”Submitted The Degradation of Java Developers as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Degradation of Java Developers as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Should Start Developing with Google Dart as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twenty one reasons to use Angular 2 and TypeScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Angular 2: High-Level Overview as a story · 1 points
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