chris-jamieson

Once you are ready to hire a developer, what should you do to mitigate execution / build risk?

1. Writing a good functional specification is key to getting the build phase of this project right. It's not easy to do but it's mostly just about thinking hard and writing out all the boring details of your desired outcome. The best guide for this is Joel Spolsky (recently sold Trello for $425M). He wrote a 4 part series on this, starting here, and also has an example (real) spec on his website here (the PDF link is broken, this is the real one)

2. Before you start on a spec, trim down your functionality to the absolute bare minimum - and be brutal with it! Imagine you had to complete it in one day, or imagine it was only a single feature... take away everything that isn't fundamental

rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

JacobBennett

Recently when refactoring a Vue 1.0 application, I utilized ES6 arrow functions to clean up the code and make things a bit more consistent before updating to Vue 2.0. Along the way I made a few mistakes and wanted to share the lessons I learned as well as offer a few conventions that I will be using in my Vue applications moving forward.

The best way to explain this is with an example so lets start there. I'm going to throw a rather large block of code at you here, but stick with me and we will move through it a piece at a time.

<script>

// require vue-resource...

new Vue({

mickn

# Paths {{{
set folder            = ~/Mail                # mailbox location
set alias_file        = ~/.mutt/alias          # where to store aliases
set header_cache      = ~/.mutt/cache/headers  # where to store headers
set message_cachedir  = ~/.mutt/cache/bodies   # where to store bodies
set certificate_file  = ~/.mutt/cerficates     # where to store certs
set mailcap_path      = ~/.mutt/mailcap        # entries for filetypes
set tmpdir            = ~/.mutt/temp           # where to keep temp files
set signature         = ~/.mutt/sig            # my signature file

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

jaydenseric

Video conversion with FFmpeg

Install

On mac:

1. Download the latest release.
2. Extract the binary and place it in /usr/local/bin.

Command basics

IQAndreas

# Caesar cipher encoding
echo "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG" | tr '[A-Z]' '[X-ZA-W]'
# output: QEB NRFZH YOLTK CLU GRJMP LSBO QEB IXWV ALD

# Caesar cipher decoding
echo "QEB NRFZH YOLTK CLU GRJMP LSBO QEB IXWV ALD" | tr '[X-ZA-W]' '[A-Z]'
# output: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG


# Can also be adjusted to ROT13 instead

qwcode

A basic structure for Pypa project docs

why a consistent structure? in large part for making the "Python Packaging User Guide" more effective when linking and less redundant

All the projects should use the default RTD theme to match the User Guide.

Introduction

elena

"10 ways to make university IT assignments more relevant to industry."

 1) Change the assignment several times while students are working on it.

 2) Assign 5 new members to the team 2 days before the assignment is
due, claiming extra resources are needed. The students are told that
'mythical man month' does not apply in this case because of awesome
management skills.

 3) Have the best programmer in the team designated 'programmer'. Then

jphalip

# Author: Julien Phalip
# License: BSD
# Description: Change the current directory to the path of the given Python package.
 
function goto {
    cd `python -c "import pkgutil; print(pkgutil.get_loader('$1').filename)"`
}
 
function _top_level_packages {
    python -c "import pkgutil; print('\n'.join([name for loader, name, ispkg in sorted(pkgutil.iter_modules()) if ispkg]))"