159 JSJ Why JavaScript Is Hard

02:54 - Everyone Gets It But Me

• Martin Fowler

04:06 - Tools You “Need” to Know

06:29 - Clojures

07:39 - JavaScript as “Object-Oriented” vs “Event-Oriented”

• Object-Oriented Programming

09:30 - Code That Can’t Be Serialized or Deserialized

10:49 - Clojures (Cont’d)

14:32 - The DOM (Document Object Model)

• [YouTube] Angular + React = Speed by Dave Smith @ ng-conf 2015

19:52 - Math Is Hard

• IEEE754 (Floating-Point Arithmetic)

22:39 - Prototypes

• Sebastian Porto: A Plain English Guide to JavaScript Prototypes

25:43 - Asynchronous Programming

• Debugging
• Gregor Hohpe: Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit
• How Do You Learn It?

32:23 - Browser Environments

34:48 - Keeping Up with JavaScript

35:46 - Node

• Nesting
• Context Switching

42:48 - UTF-8 Conversion

44:56 - Jamison’s Stack

• React
• Koa    
• RethinkDB
• io.js
• Webpack

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