On: How to shoot yourself in the foot in any programmi...

[milesokeefe]

>Javascript

>You’ve perfected a robust, rich user experience for shooting yourself in the foot. You then find that bullets are disabled on your gun.

Anyone have a modern version for this?

[RyanMcGreal → milesokeefe]

    self.shoot(function() {
        holster.unclip(function() {
            gun.remove(function() {
                safety.disable(function() {
                    trigger.pull(function() {
                        // help I'm trapped in a callback factory
                    });
                });
            });
        });
    });

[pkorzeniewski → milesokeefe]

My take:

> Javascript

> There're so many guns to choose from that when you finally choose one, it's suddenly no longer cool to shoot yourself with it so you look for another one.

ps. I love Javascript :)

[talmand → pkorzeniewski]

My version of this: "You have the gun, but you never fire it because you can't decide on accessories."

[samatman → milesokeefe]

Well, first you have to pick a gun framework, then figure out how to $elect your gun in it. Then you update the Gun model and set a callback onFire, and wonder what the hell happened. Later, the callback shoots you in the back of the head.

[Roboprog → milesokeefe]

You try to shoot yourself in the foot, but somebody has monkey-patched your gun so that instead of bullets, a little flag comes out that says "Bang!".

[talmand → milesokeefe]

I was thinking along the lines of, "After building a suitable gun, you find it doesn't fire because the bullets are of the wrong type."

[mcdougle → talmand]

Or better yet, wrong scope

[DanWaterworth → milesokeefe]

You have a solution, but you worry that it isn't web-scale.