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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Stumped! 03

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes are back for another edition of Stumped! where they try to stump each other with interview questions. Today’s questions are from Flashcards for Developers. EmailOctopus - Sponsor Email marketing for less, via Amazon SES. EmailOctopus sends your emails through Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES), saving money without sacrificing deliverability. With simple setup and all the features you would expect, EmailOctopus is as flexible as you need it to be. Get started today at emailoctopus.com/syntax and get your first three months free. Show Notes 4:03 What’s the difference between synchronous and asynchronous code? 5:56 What’s the difference between .call and .apply? 7:08 How do you share code between files? 8:18 What’s the difference between double equals and triple equals? 10:40 What’s the difference between null, undefined, and undeclared? 14:18 What is the event loop? Philip Roberts - What the heck is the event loop anyway? 16:02 Why is extending built-ins never a good idea? 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Monday, Monday, Monday,

0:02.0

Open wide Dev fans.

0:04.0

Get ready to stuff your face

0:06.0

with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,

0:09.0

get workflows,

0:10.0

break dancing, 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 Scott, El Torlocho Tolinsky.

0:26.0

Coming to you live, well sort of love.

0:29.0

Yes, not really.

0:30.0

From the J.W. Marriott in San Francisco.

0:33.2

This is the first ever syntax recorded in the same space,

0:38.2

I guess, the same physical space here.

0:40.2

We have a hasty treat for you today. It's the Monday edition of Syntax. My name is Scott Tlinsky and with me in person in this hotel room is West Boss.

0:50.0

Yeah, this is weird. For those who don't know, I've never actually met Scott and we are ramping up tomorrow. We're doing a full version, a full tasty treat of the syntax podcast at Jamestack Conf.

1:02.5

And we figured might as well just try

1:04.0

to record a little hasty treat as well.

1:05.4

So Scott brought his focus right.

1:07.8

We both brought our microphones.

1:09.3

We had to run to the store and buy an XLR cable for Scott's Mike and now we're trying it so the audio

1:15.9

probably won't be as good because we don't have all of our mixers and

1:19.2

everything with us right now but it'll still be good.

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