JavaScript is Everywhere? Cool, let's try to level up programming.

Dear jQuery plugin writer, say hello to three of my friends: abstraction, actors and functional programming.

Talk given at http://jsconf.co. Notes and more details about the talk can be found here: http://mheroin.com/jsconf/. Typography and colors were borrowed from Zach Holman's "If I Only Knew This Shit in College" (http://zachholman.com/talk/if-only-i-knew-this-shit-in-college/)

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1. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE?
   COOL, LET’S LEVEL UP PROGRAMMING
   FEDERICO BUILES
   @FEBUILES
   

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3. MOTIVATION
   

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4. Our capacity to create new
   things is limited by what our
   computers can do.
   

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5. What our computers can do is
   [only] limited by what we can
   tell them to do
   

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6. What we can tell them to do is
   limited by... us?
   

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7. bar charts, our effort vs.
   computer
   

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9. This protocol is what allows
   us to express ideas to the
   computer
   

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10. One part of this protocol are
    programming languages
    

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12. Having a better protocol
    allows us to create greater
    things
    

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13. JAVASCRIPT
    

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14. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE
    

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15. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE
    BROWSER
    

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16. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE
    SERVERS
    

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17. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE
    EDUCATION
    

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18. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE
    ELECTRONICS
    

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19. EVERYWHERE IS JAVASCRIPT
    0_0
    

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20. TOMORROW’S LANGUAGES ARE
    DIRECTLY INFLUENCED BY THE
    LANGUAGES WE USE TODAY
    

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21. Mandatory cliché quote: “The best
    way to predict the future is to
    invent it."
    Alan Kay
    

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22. JavaScript is a mainstream
    language and it’ll affect the
    future of programming
    

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23. JavaScript is a mainstream
    language and it’ll affect the
    future of programming
    Let’s try to improve a bit.
    

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24. 3ABSTRACTION
    ACTORS
    FUNCTIONAL
    PROGRAMMING
    

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25. ACTORS
    FUNCTIONAL
    PROGRAMMING
    1ABSTRACTION
    

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26. [1] We Really Don’t Know How to
    Compute
    http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-To-Compute
    [2] Up and Down the Ladder of
    Abstraction
    http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
    

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27. ABSTRACTION
    ACTORS
    FUNCTIONAL
    PROGRAMMING
    2
    

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28. “According to Carl Hewitt, unlike previous
    models of computation, the Actor model was
    inspired by physics including general relativity
    and quantum mechanics.”
    Wikipedia
    

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29. ACTOR
    SEND MESSAGES
    SPAWN ACTORS
    PREPARE FOR NEXT
    MESSAGE
    

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30. SEND MESSAGES
    SPAWN ACTORS
    PREPARE FOR NEXT
    MESSAGE
    ACTOR
    

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31. SEND MESSAGES
    SPAWN ACTORS
    PREPARE FOR NEXT
    MESSAGE
    ACTOR
    

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32. SEND MESSAGES
    SPAWN ACTORS
    PREPARE FOR NEXT
    MESSAGE
    ACTOR
    

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33. ACTOR
    SEND MESSAGES
    CREATE ACTORS
    PREPARE FOR NEXT
    MESSAGE
    CONCURRENTLY
    

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34. “This will take a
    while. I better
    spawn 10k agents
    and let the others
    know about them”
    

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35. “This will take a
    while. I better
    spawn 10k agents
    and let the others
    know about them”
    SEND MESSAGES
    CREATE ACTORS
    PREPARE FOR NEXT
    MESSAGE
    

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36. “This will take a
    while. I better
    spawn 10k agents
    and let the others
    know about them”
    SEND MESSAGES
    CREATE ACTORS
    PREPARE FOR NEXT
    MESSAGE
    

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37. “This will take a
    while. I better
    spawn 10k agents
    and let the others
    know about them”
    SEND MESSAGES
    CREATE ACTORS
    PREPARE FOR NEXT
    MESSAGE
    

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38. THE ACTOR DOES NOT KNOW
    WHO THE SENDER OF A
    MESSAGE WAS
    

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39. NOW YOU’RE FORCED INTO ASYNC.
    THE ACTOR DOES NOT KNOW
    WHO THE SENDER OF A
    MESSAGE WAS
    

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40. ACTOR
    IDENTIFIED BY AN ADDRESS
    

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42. [1] A Universal Modular ACTOR
    Formalism for Artificial Intelligence
    http://worrydream.com/refs/Hewitt-ActorModel.pdf
    [2] The Future of Programming
    http://worrydream.com/dbx/
    [3] Erlang & Scala
    

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43. ABSTRACTION
    ACTORS
    FUNCTIONAL
    PROGRAMMING
    3
    

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59. MAP/REDUCE
    

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60. MAP/REDUCE
    HADOOP
    

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61. MAP/REDUCE
    HADOOP
    BIG
    DATA!
    

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62. [1] Why Functional Programming
    Matters
    http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pdf
    [2] Functional JavaScript
    http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028857.do
    [3] Underscore.js
    http://underscorejs.org/
    

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63. "Google uses Bayesian
    filtering the way Microsoft
    uses the if statement."
    Ex-Microsoft Employee ca. 2005
    

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64. http://mheroin.com/jsconf
    federico@mheroin.com
    @febuiles
    

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