Evelyn Pai evie404

Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

In Rails 3

NOTE: This post now lives (and kept up to date) on my blog: http://hakunin.com/rails3-load-paths

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

If you add a dir under app/something/

Emoji Spec

Tired of the same, dull rspec output? liven it up with some emoji!

Below are the sets presently available, and their corresponding id. if you don't set an ID, one will be randomly chosen every run. Emoji icons may not render in certain terminals.

(pass, fail, pending)

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Updated for Rails 4.0.0+

Bower

Set up the bower gem.
Follow the Bower instructions and list your dependencies in your bower.json, e.g.
```
// bower.json
```

{

RCBO understand the difference between freelancing and entrepreneurship
RCBO sell knowledge
RCBO leverage teams
RCBO build a brand
RCBO make time to think, write and learn
RCBO know a lot of the right people
RCBO recognize theire own value
RCBO seek out coaching and mentoring
RCBO constantly innovate new products and services
RCBO take risks

S3 Website "Index Document"

`index.html`:

<html>
<head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head>
<body>

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"unicode"

	"golang.org/x/text/transform"
	"golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm"
	)

	# Installation
	brew install ffmpeg --with-vpx --with-vorbis --with-libvorbis --with-vpx --with-vorbis --with-theora --with-libogg --with-libvorbis --with-gpl --with-version3 --with-nonfree --with-postproc --with-libaacplus --with-libass --with-libcelt --with-libfaac --with-libfdk-aac --with-libfreetype --with-libmp3lame --with-libopencore-amrnb --with-libopencore-amrwb --with-libopenjpeg --with-openssl --with-libopus --with-libschroedinger --with-libspeex --with-libtheora --with-libvo-aacenc --with-libvorbis --with-libvpx --with-libx264 --with-libxvid

	# Easy Peasy
	ffmpeg -i video.mp4 video.webm