Cossano: Testerbit, websockets or polling a json api that supports ‘since’ operations

Defusco: Tcsc: any reason you use for var i = 0, l = entities.length; i l; ++i

Defusco: Instead of for var i = 0; i entities.length; ++i ? Just curious

Stathopoulos: Baxx, it’s some thing that used to almost matter for performance in like Ie5.5

Fahrendorff: If I create a div onclick event that has a clearTimeoutblah however the value of blah is null at that point – is this a good place to use eval, or is there a better way around my solution?

Allaire: Fiorito: What do you mean that it is gone? Both Firefox and chrome have a back/forward button.

Dirr: Baxx so it doesn’t have to calculate the length for every iteration

Ploch: Baxx, mostly people just thought it would improve performance

Defusco: Yeah that makes sense

Simonin: Ankr, that doesn’t happen anyway

Defusco: GreenJello: so the evaluation doesn’t occur on every iteration , just at the start and it’s cached

Petzold: Yeah, it’s called loop invariant code motion

Baeskens: But also I’m pretty sure engines store length at update time, not on access

Defusco: It’s got a snazzy name

Brumsey: Tcsc: canvas2 is really cool, neat break from using ncurses lol

Castellanos: GreenJello, do you have a link to working with since operations?

Elvis: Baxx: uh, for that it doesn’t matter

Elvis: But if i add to entities during the iteration

Elvis: I won’t go over the added entities

Elvis: Also yeah it might have a slight performance difference

Cowie: Testerbit, it’s pretty simple, you just ask the server if it has new data since the last time you got new data

Elvis: For this it won’t matter

Defusco: If entities increases it’s still bound by the value that is was going into the loop

Dagle: You p*** it as a parameter to the request, and if there’s nothing new, it returns an empty array

Elvis: Sometimes you want that behavior soemtimes you wouldn’t.

Marsicek: Adding items to arrays in loops is very confusing

Elvis: It’s sort of a necessary evil in a game though.

Elvis: Although I’ve done a double-buffering system where i had two lists of entities, and i swapped them during iteration

Elvis: So that modifications would go into a different array than i’m iterating over

Garbacz: Promise.all often returns a bunch of vastly different data that can’t really be described with a single keyword. Is there a common name to give the variable returned by it?

Elvis: That ends up causing more issues than it prevents though

Formby: Gillice, a promise :-

Nicely: GreenJello: heh? :p I mean the variable it spits out, the array of resolved promises

Knotek: It feels silly to just call it ‘results’ or something

Brandner: Gillice, sometimes results is a fitting name.

Elvis: Name all your variables only using the _ character.

Mccuaig: Though results implies you have the results

Alcott: The results of the promise should be in that

Jalbert: Var ___ = __ + __________

Chall: I guess ‘data’ is another option

Rought: But it’s not very descriptive, I guess you can’t really be descriptive

Elvis: Obligatory http://jsfiddle.net/y605c6L6/

Aquero: Tcsc: needs more ****butt

Elvis: Reformatting it so that it looks like ****butt is an exercise left to the reader

Gioia: Hmm, what is the etiquette for using var bla; var blub; versus using var bla, blub?

Noke: Gillice, Whichever one you like more.

Matthees: In the previous initiation of this application I had all my dependencies listed with commas