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Do not allow your ambition to be pathologized. Refuse to apologize for or disguise your insatiable desire to excel. Reject entirely the notion that you need to be fixed. Reclaim your perfectionism now.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
Katherine Morgan Schafler
The implementation of Array as an object with restricted keys has the peculiar effect in that eliminating an element (as in delete a[1]) does not shrink the overall length of the collection; instead it creates a “hole”: an undefined entry without a key. The treatment of holes by various JavaScript facilities is inconsistent.3 The proper way to remove an element from an array without leaving holes is to use the splice() function. (The delete operator is intended to remove elements from objects.)
D3 for the Impatient
Philipp K. Janert
In 1963, the White House Conference on Narcotics and Drug Abuse concluded that the hazards of smoking marijuana were “exaggerated” and that harsh criminal penalties (which in Georgia, for example, included the death penalty for selling pot to a minor) were “in poor social perspective.” For a country punch-drunk on antimarijuana hysteria, it was a momentary jolt of sobriety.
Smoke Signals
Martin A. Lee
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