Eirik L. Vullum eiriklv

Pub/sub with MongoDB and Node.js

Setup:

$ mongo
> use pubsub
> db.createCollection('messages', { capped: true, size: 100000 })
> db.messages.insert({})

High level style in javascript.

Opinions are like assholes, every one has got one.

This one is mine.

Punctuation: who cares?

Punctuation is a bikeshed. Put your semicolons, whitespace, and commas where you like them.

pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace

by humdog (1994)

when i went into cyberspace i went into it thinking that it was a place like any other place and that it would be a human interaction like any other human interaction. i was wrong when i thought that. it was a terrible mistake.

the very first understanding that i had that it was not a place like any place and that the interaction would be different was when people began to talk to me as though i were a man. when they wrote about me in the third person, they would say “he.” it interested me to have people think i was “he” instead of “she” and so at first i did not say anything. i grinned and let them think i was “he.” this went on for a little while and it was fun but after a while i was uncomfortable. finally i said unto them that i, humdog, was a woman and not a man. this surprised them. at that moment i realized that the dissolution of gender-category was something that was happening everywhere, and perhaps it was only just very obvious on the ne

This is a post by Joel Spolsky. The original post is linked at the bottom.

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer.

The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because "it was my idea," or because "I was more experienced" or anything else. Why? Because if I split the company 60-40, the company is going to fail when we argue ourselves to death. And if you ju

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

	macro $do {
	case { $y:expr } => {
	$y
	}
	case { $x:ident <- $y:expr $rest ... } => {
	λ['>=']($y, function($x) {
	return $do { $rest ... }
	});
	}
	}

	var mongoose = require('mongoose');
	var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
	var assert = require('assert')

	console.log('\n===========');
	console.log(' mongoose version: %s', mongoose.version);
	console.log('========\n\n');

	mongoose.connect('localhost', 'testing_1088');
	mongoose.connection.on('error', function () {

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<script>
	window.onload = function () {
	console.log(''+(+new Date)+': Onload fired');
	};

	document.onreadystatechange = function () {
	console.log(''+(+new Date)+': Ready state changed');

	function eachAsync(collection, iterator, callback) {
	var iterate = function(i) {
	setTimeout(function() {
	iterator(collection[i]);
	if (i < collection.length) {
	iterate(i + 1);
	} else {
	callback();
	}
	}, 0);

	// http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
	// http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/12/20/requestanimationframe-for-smart-er-animating

	// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel

	// MIT license

	(function() {
	var lastTime = 0;
	var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];