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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Async

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  1. Topic-First Meeting Principle

    The topic-first meeting principle: schedule a meeting only after a topic that warrants verbal discussion has surfaced, not the reverse. The inversion of standing meetings — the conversation creates the meeting, not the calendar slot creates the conversation topic.

  2. Message Systems in Programming: Callbacks, Events, Pub/Sub, Promises, and Streams

    Jesse Warden's survey of async communication patterns in programming — callbacks, events, pub/sub, promises, and streams. A clear taxonomy of a domain where the terminology is often muddled, especially relevant to JavaScript's async evolution in 2014.

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