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42 42  We haven't used a lot of JavaScript at www.marketocracy.com, for a very simple reason: We don't have the testing staff to fire up 10 different browser variations to test the site. And lets face it, programming in JavaScript sucks.
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44 -Since someone invented that cool acronym though, that's changing. You would think it shouldn't matter that something has a name, but it does. I remember when the GoF Design Patterns book came out. There was nothing in there I hadn't figured out on my own, but now they had a name! I could say "Singleton" to my co-workers and they would know what I was talking about. I could buy a junior engineer the book, and he would soon be programming at a much higher level.
44 +Since someone invented that cool acronym though, that's changing. You would think it shouldn't matter that something has a name, but it does. I remember when the GoF Design Patterns book came out. There was nothing in there I hadn't figured out on my own, but now they had a name! I could say "Singleton" to my co-workers and they would know what I was talking about.
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46 +I could buy a junior engineer the book, and he would soon be programming at a much higher level.
46 46  So having a name helped, and the result is that there are a lot of cool toolkits out there. Since someone else wrote the JavaScript, that means I don't need to test 10 different browser variations.
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48 48  Which means I can make the site much easier to use and more interactive. Huzzah!
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50 50  ==== Research ====