jvns

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

sos4nt

#!/bin/sh
file "$1" | grep -q "text"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  /usr/bin/open $1
else
  /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl $1:$2
fi

sky-y

#!/bin/sh

# Unicode NFD to NFC
# 標準出力に出力されるので、適当にパイプで処理する
iconv -f UTF-8-MAC -t UTF-8 input.txt

jpbochi

// The code below will extend underscore.js adding the groupByAndMap function.
// groupByAndMap works like the regular groupBy, but it accepts an optional third "selector" argument.
// The 'selector' is used to select values inside each group.
// As usual in underscore, you can either pass a function or a string with the name of an attribute you want.
// groupByAndMap is useful when you don't want the key to be present in the values inside the group.
// Also, it completely covers the groupBy functionality because the last argument is optional.
// If you want, you can replace groupBy instead of defining a new function.

_.mixin({
	groupByAndMap: function(list, keySelector, valueSelector) {