Exactly, I said "discourage," which isn't sensor. I'm not saying we should 
delete their posts, I'm saying we should turn them in to social pariahs :P

On Apr 24, 2013, at 3:34PM, Nathan White <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
>> You are asking to censor replies.  This is obviously not acceptable.
> 
> Relax. No one is stopping anything... just encouraging best practice for 
> communication to the whole audience.
> 
> In a technical forum I think it's best to disclose affiliation to a project. 
> A good habit when suggesting packages is to use an objective source like npm 
> stats like Mikeal has done. Or at least a compare/contrast on why I might use 
> your package.
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Mikeal Rogers <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> I feel really bad for people that ask incredibly simple questions on this 
>> list.
>> 
>> The solution nearly everyone in this community uses is the async library:
>> 
>> https://npmjs.org/package/async
>> https://github.com/caolan/async
>> 
>> Its currently depended on by 1901 other packages. It's the defacto-standard 
>> for flow control in node.js. The only people that don't use it are people 
>> that prefer to do everything by hand and people that wrote their own pet 
>> library, anyone asking this question is unlikely to fall in to one of those 
>> categories.
>> 
>> This list fills up with people advocating the library they wrote that almost 
>> nobody uses, which confuses new users in order to further their own agenda. 
>> If this is to be a place for new users to ask simple questions we need to 
>> find a way to discourage this behavior.
>> 
>> -Mikeal
>> 
>> On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:02AM, greelgorke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> where's the fibers guy? :D
>>> 
>>> Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013 22:31:57 UTC+2 schrieb azer:
>>> I wrote a guide for defining async values previously; 
>>> https://github.com/azer/declarative-js 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Bruno Jouhier <[email protected]> wrote: 
>>> > With streamline.js (https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs), you just need 
>>> > one 
>>> > line of code: 
>>> > 
>>> > var result = (Object1.retrieveNum1(_) + Object2.retrieveNum2(_)) / 
>>> > Object3.retrieveNum3(_); 
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > On Monday, April 22, 2013 9:54:50 PM UTC+2, Slobodan Blazeski wrote: 
>>> >> 
>>> >> Hi All 
>>> >> 
>>> >> I'm looking for suggestions of how to retrieve values asynchronously: 
>>> >> 
>>> >> In the synchronous world I have 
>>> >> 
>>> >> var num1 =  Object1.retrieveNum1(); 
>>> >> var num2 = Object2.retrieveNum2(); 
>>> >> var num3 = Object3.retrieveNum3(); 
>>> >> 
>>> >> var result = (num1 + num2) /  num3; 
>>> >> 
>>> >> 
>>> >> but since functions  Object1.retrieveNum1,Object2.retrieveNum2 & 
>>> >> Object3.retrieveNum3 
>>> >> retrieve data from the database or represent long calculation I need to 
>>> >> pass callbacks, 
>>> >> that leads me to below 
>>> >> 
>>> >>  Object1.retrieveNum1Async(function(num1){ 
>>> >>       Object2.retrieveNum2Async(function(num2){ 
>>> >>             Object3.retrieveNum3Async(function(num3){ 
>>> >>                  var result = (num1 + num2) /  num3; 
>>> >>             }); 
>>> >>       }); 
>>> >> }); 
>>> >> 
>>> >> is this the idiomatic way of doing this or there is something better 
>>> >> 
>>> >> 
>>> >> thanks 
>>> >> Bobi 
>>> >> 
>>> >> 
>>> >> 
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