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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 10:47:06 JST Paul Cantrell

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   • tj usiyan

   @mcc @griotspeak
   I love undefined. It’s like when Tony Hoare called null his “billion dollar mistake,” the JS designers were like “Wow, so then if we have •two• kind of null, that’s like a billion dollars for free!”

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 10:47:07 JST mcc

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     @griotspeak what's horrible about the typeof x == "undefined" is that normally if something is undefined you can't read from it, but typeof is special in that it allows otherwise illegal symbols to follow it

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     tj usiyan (griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 10:47:10 JST tj usiyan

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     @mcc There is *so much* in this tiny little snippet. It's amazing, really.

     I didn't remember that `typeof` returned something that could be compared to a string like that.

     Oh. I read the context for this a few moments ago. THIS IS BECAUSE NODE.

     Another layer has entered the chat.

     Such depth of fervor here.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 10:47:11 JST mcc

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     On further investigation, it turns out this is because the Twitter JSON files are not JSON but in fact contain executable JS code which assumes it is running in a browser environment https://www.garrickadenbuie.com/blog/tweet-archive-in-r/

     … and Darius's existing parser does, in fact, involve simply calling eval() D:

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 10:47:11 JST mcc

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     Just wrote the most normal JavaScript code I've ever written in my life

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 10:47:12 JST mcc

     Current status: I appear to be getting the error "THAR_SHE_BLOWS"