Every time one of these stories appears, my hopes are lifted for a split second thinking that maybe it's data structures or scoping tricks or standard library functions, in the vein of Crockford's "The Good Parts". And every time, I know within a split second of looking at the page that it's yet another collection of garish web doodads I'll never use.<p>Just thought you'd like to know.
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