Show HN: A Javascript library to overcomplicate Five

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.

<p><pre><code> five.tooSlow = function() { var returnIn = new Date(new Date().valueOf() + 555); do {} while(new Date() &lt; returnIn); return five(); }; </code></pre> 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.

I poked around at the source code and this really doesn&#x27;t seem to be web scale <i>at all</i>. 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.<p>Until then I&#x27;m afraid this is just far too slow to consider using seriously in my web-scale project. This probably cant even handle 100M+ requests&#x2F;second. Right now, its just me and grandma so I need 2 requests&#x2F;sec, but this really doesn&#x27;t seem scalable.

I&#x27;m a little disappointed the test doesn&#x27;t verify correctness addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.<p>Sigh. I suppose I&#x27;ll have to submit an issue and pull request.

This can&#x27;t be right, nowhere near enough dependencies

Can&#x27;t wait until it reach version... 5

Whoah. The Mongolian word for &quot;five&quot; means &quot;ceiling&quot; in Bulgarian.

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

AHA! I knew it! ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES. What <i>can&#x27;t</i> you accomplish with this library?<p><a href="http://principiadiscordia.com/book/23.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;principiadiscordia.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;23.php</a>

finally. shame it&#x27;s not written in the much more scalable coffeescript.

Who&#x27;s gonna write Flappy Five in JS?

But what good is a five overcomplication library without overly complicated documentation?

This will be ported to GWT 5.5.0 in a FiveLabel. It would fit nicely.