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Re: 3 Things I’ve Learned To Recruit Great Hackers

hoffmanc707 — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:40:27 -0000

never apologize for short posts

Re: 3 Things I’ve Learned To Recruit Great Hackers

hoffmanc707 — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:40:55 -0000

don't ever apologize for a short post

Re: Brandon Dimcheff - Commit a linear git history to subversion

hoffmanc707 — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:04:22 -0000

yes, you need to make it more explicit; just use the SHAs to eliminate confusion.

Re: Infographic: What Tools Developers Actually Use

hoffmanc707 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:07:21 -0000

Yeah this is for bleeding-edge tech people, not for all of us morts, which make up a vast majority of the industry.

Re: Composite Views: Tree Structures, Tables, And More

hoffmanc707 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:25:06 -0000

Do you realize that the tree you construct as your first example has a ul wrapped around every single li (even siblings)?

Re: Composite Views: Tree Structures, Tables, And More

hoffmanc707 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:18:18 -0000

Could you explain why you use
this.unset("nodes");
after setting
this.nodes
to a TreeNodeCollection

Re: Backbone.Syphon: Serialize Form Inputs To JavaScript Objects

hoffmanc707 — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:03:45 -0000

Totally get you on avoiding databinding. Way too Webforms-y if you ask me. This approach seems more elegant.

Re: iPad publishing on the web with jQuery PageSwipe Jun 15

hoffmanc707 — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:46:06 -0000

Looks pretty awesome.

Re: Monitoring Things with collectd

hoffmanc707 — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:20:00 -0000

This article was perfect for me, in that it answered my original question: is there a monitoring package that doesn't require me to make a portable machine essentially internet-accessible? Yes. Awesome.

Re: What This Higgs Boson Thing Really Means

hoffmanc707 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:31:48 -0000

What a waste of time. I was expecting implications, not acquiescence.

Re: How hackers will jailbreak the iPhone 5

hoffmanc707 — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:26:11 -0000

s/hack/crack/g

Re: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/minitest/mock/rdoc/MiniTest/Mock.html

hoffmanc707 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:37:10 -0000

Please show the instantiation of the @mock, and describe whether or not it can be used to mock class methods.

Re: Gemify Assets for Rails - Prioritized.net

hoffmanc707 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:30:45 -0000

::Rails::Engine should be Rails::Engine

Re: Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion

hoffmanc707 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:31:44 -0000

So much for "Don't be Evil..."

Re: Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion

hoffmanc707 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:33:57 -0000

TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Re: Parse Postgresql Queries In Ruby - pganalyze blog

hoffmanc707 — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:57:12 -0000

What an ingenious way of doing proper tokenization, versus relying on regexes to programmatically inspect SQL queries! Wish I'd thought of it...

Re: How to use webpack with Rails | clarkdave.net

hoffmanc707 — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 15:58:35 -0000

Awesome tutorial. I ran into the following problems with a brand new project (rails 4.2 - https://github.com/hoffmanc... ):
1) needed to add bundle.js to precompiled assets in the assets initializer
2) application.js has a default require_tree directive that, when combined with the script tag from the tutorial, will execute the entry.js code twice

Re: How to get from theyâ€™re to they’re - Weissblog

hoffmanc707 — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:21:40 -0000

I like using iconv to force these multi-byte chars into simpler chars whenever possible, so that there is only one type of e.g., single quote:


[1] pry(main)> require 'iconv'
=> true
[2] pry(main)> Iconv.iconv("US-ASCII//TRANSLIT","UTF-8","They’re")
=> ["They're"]

Beyond satisfying my OCD, I have found that making semantically equal strings syntactically equivalent can save a lot of pain down the road. For example, when doing an ad-hoc SQL query against a string column, one needn't account for different versions of certain characters.

Re: Webhooks integration guide

hoffmanc707 — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:46:06 -0000

FYI typo on the offline message JSON (missing comma after group name), and trailing comma after group kind

Re: Five Capybara Hacks to Make Your Testing Experience Less Painful - Quick Left Boulder Colorado

hoffmanc707 — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 07:28:48 -0000

Agreed - as an enhancement, install the `launchy` gem, and modify the code block as follows:

%x{launchy #{current_url}}
require 'pry'; binding.pry

This should open up a new tab in an existing browser session.

Re: Ruby exceptions are 4400 times faster than ActiveRecord::Base#create

hoffmanc707 — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:29:26 -0000

I don't use exceptions because they largely harm readability IMHO, rather than for performance concerns.

Re: Ruby exceptions are 4400 times faster than ActiveRecord::Base#create

hoffmanc707 — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:43:46 -0000

I do like raising ActiveRecord::NotFound manually if a found record is e.g., not accessible to a user - similar to how Github yields a 404 if someone doesn't have access to a project - security through obfuscation.

However, rescuing from that same exception to create a new record is in poor form. Better to simply do a MyModel.find_or_create_by some_attr: params[:some_attr]

Re: i3wm brightness control on T480s

hoffmanc707 — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:54:08 -0000

thank you! just what I needed.

Re: i3wm brightness control on T480s

hoffmanc707 — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 11:21:00 -0000

my version of the script:

#!/bin/bash current_brightness=`cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness` max_brightness=`cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness` if [ $1 == "up" ] then new_brightness=$(($current_brightness + 100)) [ $new_brightness -gt $max_brightness ] && new_brightness=$max_brightness else new_brightness=$(($current_brightness - 100)) [ $new_brightness -lt 0 ] && new_brightness=0 fi echo $new_brightness > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness

Also - needed to remove some existing event configs to get it working as they were "exit 0" and I assume halting the event chain? `asus-keyboard-backlight-down/up`.

Re: gcloud on Python 3.10: module ‘collections’ has no attribute ‘Mapping’

hoffmanc707 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 10:07:25 -0000

Thank you - smart solution.