Stop paying your jQuery tax

Turns out that pushing jQuery to the footer is quite easy for the common case. If all we want is a nice $.ready function that we have accessible everywhere we can explicitly define it without jQuery. Then we can pass the functions we capture to jQuery later on after it loads.

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Reddit, lets compile a list of the best online learning centers. We could all use a little education. : reddit.com

As usual, I’m feeling that I should learn all the things. So here’s a giant list. Should keep me busy for the next century or so…

Reddit, lets compile a list of the best online learning centers. We could all use a little education. self.reddit.com

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Denouement: David Foster Wallace-Kenyon Commencement Speech 2005

Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master”.

This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.

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noting this because of the obvious, except didn’t he hang himself. checking google…. yep. he did.