Lauri Elias Lauriy

A better setup for Git

Git default configuration is good but it can be personalized to improve your workflow efficiency. Here are some good lines to put in your ~/.gitconfig:

# The basics, who you commit as:
[user]
  name = John Doe
  email = [email protected]

Docker - How to cleanup (unused) resources

Once in a while, you may need to cleanup resources (containers, volumes, images, networks) ...

delete volumes

// see: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes

$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true | xargs -r docker volume rm

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Originally posted at http://pastebin.com/BjD84BQ3

Trigger warning: mention of suicidal ideation

tl;dr: I burned out as a developer at Amazon at the end of my second year. I’ve since found a healthy and sustainable work-life balance and enjoy work again. I write this to A) raise awareness, especially for new-hires and their families, and B) help give hope and advice to people going through the same at Amazon or other companies.

Hello, world

There’s been no shortage of anecdotes, opinions, and rebuttals regarding Amazon’s corporate culture as of late. I write this not to capitalize on the latest news-feed fad, but to share what I had already written and promptly deleted. I didn’t think anyone would want to hear my story, but it’s apparent people are going through a similar experience and don’t have a voice.

I’m a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon; SDE II basically means a software developer with at least 2–3 years of industry experience. I started at Amazon as an SDE I.

Angular: Just say no

A collection of articles by AngularJS veterans, sometimes even core committers, that explain in detail what's wrong with Angular 1.x, how Angular 2 isn't the future, and why you should avoid the entire thing at all costs unless you want to spend the next few years in hell.

Reason for this: I'm getting tired of having to explain to everyone, chief of which all the indiscriminate Google Kool-Aid™ drinkers, why I have never believed in Angular, why I think it'll publicly fail pretty soon now (a couple years), and why it's a dead end IMO. This gist serves as a quick target I can point people to in order not to have to parrot / compile the core of the articles below everytime. Their compounded reading pretty much captures 99% of my view on the topic.

This page is accessible through http://bit.ly/angular-just-say-no and http://bit.ly/angularjustsayno, btw.

I won't be using Angular for my next project...and neither should you. • Robe

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About "Women In Tech"

We have absolutely no idea what we're doing in tech. Please explain the utmost basic things to us.
We only do web design. Our whole reason of being in tech is to make things pretty. Consider us the doilies of the industry.
We're not laughing about your joke, so we clearly need you explain it to us. In great detail.
We're only in tech to find a husband, boyfriend or generally to get laid.

	$ python xor.py
	Training:
	Epoch 0 MSE: 1.765
	Epoch 100 MSE: 0.015
	Epoch 200 MSE: 0.005
	* Target MSE reached *
	Evaluating:
	1 XOR 0 = 1 ( 0.904) Error: 0.096
	0 XOR 1 = 1 ( 0.908) Error: 0.092
	1 XOR 1 = 0 (-0.008) Error: 0.008

	from sqlalchemy import create_engine
	from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
	from myapp.models import BaseModel
	import pytest


	@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
	def engine():
	return create_engine("postgresql://localhost/test_database")

	import logging
	from time import sleep
	from multiprocessing import Process

	from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError


	logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

	Sid Meier's 10 Rules of Game Design

	1. Choose a topic you have a passion for. Game Design is about creativity.

	2. Do research after the game is done. Tap into the player’s brain.

	3. Define your axioms, refine your axioms. Prototype, prototype, prototype; sit in all the chairs.

	4. Double it or cut it in half. You are more wrong than you think.