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var test = parseInt( 'hello', 10 ); // returns NaN
if ( test === NaN ) {
alert( 'Well that made sense' );
} else if ( 'number' !== typeof test ) { // Should work, right? NaN means NOT A NUMBER
alert( 'Should not have to come to this, but still makes sense' );
} else {
alert( 'WAT' ); // Should have used isNaN()
}
ಠ_ಠ
Reminded me of this:
I use Ubuntu full time on all my computers, as you probably know if you read my infrequent posts here or have been unlucky enough to get caught in a conversation about computers with me.
I really like Ubuntu, 1 so naturally I want it to do well. Which will never happen until there’s a more robust ecosystem of user-oriented programs.
I have neither the time nor the skill to really make a dent in that problem, but I did recently put up my first desktop program for Ubuntu on a Launchpad-hosted PPA 2. It’s just a little something to make it easier for me to do something I very much enjoy: use unicode emoticons 3 in text.
So I built a python application that adds to the system tray an icon with a dropdown menu of text items. Click an item and it’s copied to your clipboard.
It also has a preferences menu where the user can add, edit, or remove any item from the text snippets. Maybe you don’t know people who would provoke a ಠ_ಠ or maybe you never want to (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻. That’s fine. You could add something you find yourself typing occasionally that you wish you could have in your clipboard 4.
Can’t decide what text to put in there? Why not (/) (°,,,°) (/)?
Anyway, if you want to install the program in Ubuntu, add my ppa to your software sources list:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:johnpbloch/meme-indicator
And then simply install the package, either through the software center or on the command line:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install meme-indicator
