[nodejs] Re: Giving up on node.js / Flatiron / hook.io

2012-09-13 Thread jstewmon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xJjCnWm5cvE#t=100s On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 2:28:22 PM UTC-5, Tim Dickinson wrote: > > Get a job! > > On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:17:48 AM UTC-4, Filipe wrote: >> >> Tim, when you already have food on the table, right? > > --

[nodejs] Is it recommended to mitigate leaking global variables like this?

2012-02-28 Thread jstewmon
Yesterday, mocha surprised me by telling me that my application had a global variable leak. I tracked it down to calling the mongodb ObjectID function without the new keyword. Aside from from the leak, the function was working as expected in our application. But, it made me wonder if this issue