June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
8h 44m
English
If you play with throttleFirst() and throttleLast(), you might be dissatisfied with one aspect of their behavior. They are agnostic to the variability of emission frequency, and they simply "dip in" at fixed intervals and pull the first or last emission they find. There is no notion of waiting for a "period of silence" where emissions stop for a moment, and that might be an opportune time to push the last emission that occurred forward.
Think of Hollywood action movies where a protagonist is under heavy gunfire. While bullets are flying, he/she has to take cover and is unable to act. But the moment their attackers stop to reload, there is a period of silence where they have time to react. This is essentially ...
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