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JavaScript advice #parody

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Let’s do it! Angular vs. JVM vs. XML vs MongoDB.

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Local variables slow your code down; use globals and define them at the top of your file. Single character names speed up code x30.

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Don’t you find it funny how only *other* people write crap code?

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Comment liberally, because your coworkers are morons and can never understand the brilliance of your mind.

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Use CoffeeScript.

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Confucius say, typeof is operator, not function, stupid.

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Confucius say, dom is piece of pie to be eaten.

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Set all your variables to null at the end of every function. Helps free up memory.

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Use 'new RegExp` instead of `/.../` as the latter is susceptible to XSS.

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Why rely on the native JSON.parse when you can write your own parser!?

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I'm gonna need you to go ahead and add a redundant doc comment above every single variable... k?

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Don't just limit yourself to single or double quotes. Use both of them in unsparing and inconsistent fashions.

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Make love, not JavaScript.

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function isJavaScriptEnabled() { return true ? true : false; }

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You can annotate a line of JS to run faster by prefixing with '//'

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LOL some guy told me JSON is not the same as object-literal syntax... HAHAHA

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You know what's better than one var declaration per scope? One var declaration per application. Yup.