Show HN: A Javascript library to overcomplicate Five(jackdcrawford.github.io)

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Show HN: A Javascript library to overcomplicate Five

http://jackdcrawford.github.io/five/

30 comments

Thanks for sharing, but in my app I really need five to be six. If you could address this one small issue I'm sure your lib would see much more use.

joezo12 anni fa

You can get 6 with `(five() + (five()/five()))`

morley12 anni fa

var six = five() + five() / five();

Evgeniuz12 anni fa

var six = function() { return five() + five() / five(); }

Some people may rely on that functionality.

jgillich12 anni fa

    five.tooSlow = function() {
        var returnIn = new Date(new Date().valueOf() + 555);

        do {} while(new Date() < returnIn);

        return five();
    };

Finally a way to escape callback hell. I think somebody should write a jQuery.ajax plugin that calls the function repeatedly until a request is finished.

sfeng12 anni fa

That actually wouldn't work, as the response from the request would never be processed while you were looping.

You can make synchronous requests already though:

    req = new XMLHttpRequest
    req.open("some/url", "GET", false);
    req.send()

zaptheimpaler12 anni fa

I poked around at the source code and this really doesn't seem to be web scale at all. Please look into mongodb to store the five, maybe throw in Redis to cache five in memory, and consider using a real-time processing framework like Storm to implement mapping and reducing five.

Until then I'm afraid this is just far too slow to consider using seriously in my web-scale project. This probably cant even handle 100M+ requests/second. Right now, its just me and grandma so I need 2 requests/sec, but this really doesn't seem scalable.

mooreds12 anni fa

I'm a little disappointed the test doesn't verify correctness addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.

Sigh. I suppose I'll have to submit an issue and pull request.

hacliff12 anni fa

This can't be right, nowhere near enough dependencies

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talles12 anni fa

Can't wait until it reach version... 5

andrey-p12 anni fa

Whoah. The Mongolian word for "five" means "ceiling" in Bulgarian.

neals12 anni fa

Wake up sheeple!

dclowd990112 anni fa

Really makes me wish you could invoke instance methods on numbers (ala 5.amIFive())

Softcadbury12 anni fa

You can :)

Number.prototype.amIFive = function(){ return this.valueOf() == 5; }

5..amIFive();

dclowd990112 anni fa

Ah, so you have to have two dots... I suppose the first one denotes the floating point value, and the second denotes the prototype accessor. Very clever.

phpnode12 anni fa

(5).amIFive();

saraid21612 anni fa

AHA! I knew it! ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES. What can't you accomplish with this library?

http://principiadiscordia.com/book/23.php

timme12 anni fa

finally. shame it's not written in the much more scalable coffeescript.

oakesm912 anni fa

Give it a day and someone will have ported it ;-)

vladharbuz12 anni fa

How about two hours? https://github.com/vladh/five-coffee

`five-coffee` on npm.

rmrfrmrf12 anni fa

Done. https://github.com/barretron/five