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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Stump'd

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes are back with another edition of Stump’d! where they try to stump each other with interview questions. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 3:54 - What is the difference between NULL and undefined? 5:40 - What is short circuit evaluation in JS? 7:25 - What is use strict? 9:07 - What is the only value not equal to itself in JS? 10:36 - When would you create a static class member? 11:54 - What is a pure function? 13:08 - What is JSONP? 14:24 - Describe the layout of the CSS box model? Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday.

0:02.0

Open wide Dev fans.

0:04.0

Get ready to stuff your face with JavaScript,

0:07.0

CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, get workflows,

0:10.0

breakdancing, soft skills, web development,

0:12.0

the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

0:18.1

Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Torloko Tolinsky.

0:25.0

Oh, welcome to Syntax in this Monday hasty treat.

0:30.0

We're going to be bringing back one of our favorite segments and favorite types of shows.

0:34.8

We all know that you loved this type of episode and this is, of course, I'm talking about the

0:40.4

stumped episodes. Now, in Stumped, if you are a new listener to syntax, you might not have heard

0:46.3

one of our stumped episodes, but what they are is Wes and I are going to ask each other a few interview questions

0:52.1

that we randomly selected, and we're going to do our best to answer them.

0:56.9

Now this is no pressure. We're not getting to look up any of the answers here and if you've

1:00.9

listened to any of these episodes before you will know that we

1:04.4

both get easy questions wrong all the time.

1:07.6

So that's the beauty of this stuff is when you're put under the pressure you might not always

1:12.2

come up with it.

1:13.0

So my name is Scott Tlensky.

1:14.4

I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado.

1:15.8

And with me is always is West Boss.

1:17.5

How you doing, Wes?

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