Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The super idea is fairly important in the classical pattern, but it appears to be unnecessary in the prototypal and functional patterns. I now see my early attempts to support the classical model in JavaScript as a mistake.