Show HN: A Javascript library to overcomplicate Five

http://jackdcrawford.github.io/five/

by joezo • 12 years ago

69 28 12 years ago

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timme• 12 years ago

finally. shame it's not written in the much more scalable coffeescript.

oakesm9• 12 years ago

Give it a day and someone will have ported it ;-)

rmrfrmrf2• 12 years ago

Done. https://github.com/barretron/five

vladharbuz3• 12 years ago

How about two hours? https://github.com/vladh/five-coffee

`five-coffee` on npm.

nateguchi• 12 years ago

try this: http://js2coffee.org/

jgillich• 12 years ago

    five.tooSlow = function() {
        var returnIn = new Date(new Date().valueOf() + 555);

        do {} while(new Date() < returnIn);

        return five();
    };

Finally a way to escape callback hell. I think somebody should write a jQuery.ajax plugin that calls the function repeatedly until a request is finished.

sfeng• 12 years ago

That actually wouldn't work, as the response from the request would never be processed while you were looping.

You can make synchronous requests already though:

    req = new XMLHttpRequest
    req.open("some/url", "GET", false);
    req.send()

mooreds• 12 years ago

I'm a little disappointed the test doesn't verify correctness addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.

Sigh. I suppose I'll have to submit an issue and pull request.

weddpros• 12 years ago

Who's gonna write Flappy Five in JS?

filearts• 12 years ago

Thanks for sharing, but in my app I really need five to be six. If you could address this one small issue I'm sure your lib would see much more use.

morley• 12 years ago

var six = five() + five() / five();

Evgeniuz• 12 years ago

var six = function() { return five() + five() / five(); }

Some people may rely on that functionality.

joezo• 12 years ago

You can get 6 with `(five() + (five()/five()))`

andrey-p• 12 years ago

Whoah. The Mongolian word for "five" means "ceiling" in Bulgarian.

neals• 12 years ago

Wake up sheeple!

sramsay• 12 years ago

But what good is a five overcomplication library without overly complicated documentation?

dclowd99012• 12 years ago

Really makes me wish you could invoke instance methods on numbers (ala 5.amIFive())

Softcadbury• 12 years ago

You can :)

Number.prototype.amIFive = function(){ return this.valueOf() == 5; }

5..amIFive();

dclowd99012• 12 years ago

Ah, so you have to have two dots... I suppose the first one denotes the floating point value, and the second denotes the prototype accessor. Very clever.

phpnode• 12 years ago

(5).amIFive();

hacliff• 12 years ago

This can't be right, nowhere near enough dependencies

talles• 12 years ago

Can't wait until it reach version... 5

saraid216• 12 years ago

AHA! I knew it! ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES. What can't you accomplish with this library?

http://principiadiscordia.com/book/23.php

assertnotnull• 12 years ago

This will be ported to GWT 5.5.0 in a FiveLabel. It would fit nicely.

zaptheimpaler• 12 years ago

I poked around at the source code and this really doesn't seem to be web scale at all. Please look into mongodb to store the five, maybe throw in Redis to cache five in memory, and consider using a real-time processing framework like Storm to implement mapping and reducing five.

Until then I'm afraid this is just far too slow to consider using seriously in my web-scale project. This probably cant even handle 100M+ requests/second. Right now, its just me and grandma so I need 2 requests/sec, but this really doesn't seem scalable.

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