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		douche on June 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public School... I'm mostly a back-end guy... does it really matter if you you use != vs !== when you know that both operands have the same type in javascript? In this case, you've got string literals, so (flying spaghetti monster, I hope there won't be any type conversions going on)

lmm on June 13, 2015 [–]

It matters for anyone who maintains your code. "!=" is a big red flag, better to consistently use "!==".

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