Marcus Crane marcus-crane

Long story, short: I'm totally open to supporting more rubies if possible. Details follow.

Related issue: http://code.google.com/p/logstash/issues/detail?id=37

Summary:

core and stdlib ruby changes violently and without notice and without backwards compatibility. I want nothing of that.
need a cross-ruby date library that isn't part of stdlib (see previous point) and is also good.
need an easy way to use multiple cpus that is cross-ruby (threads are not it)

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

This article is now published on my website: Prefer Subshells for Context.

In penance for cracking stupid jokes on Twitter, here's my Emacs cheat sheet. Emacs has a steep learning curve, so I've tried to order them by importance so you could learn them in stages.

One overall rule of thumb: pay attention to the minibuffer (the line at the bottom of the editor). It will often guide you through a process, and also gives you hints about what state you're in, such as the middle of a multi-chord sequence.

The other rule of thumb: when in doubt, C-g it out.

Basics (mandatory)

You simply can't get by without having these at your fingertips.

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

	#!/usr/bin/env python2

	"""
	Other Repositories of python-ping
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	* https://github.com/l4m3rx/python-ping supports Python2 and Python3
	* https://bitbucket.org/delroth/python-ping

	#!/usr/bin/perl

	use LWP::UserAgent;
	use HTTP::Request;
	use HTTP::Cookies;
	use SOAP::Lite;
	print "-----------------------------------\n";
	print "- Nokia N9 Firmware Downloader -\n";
	print "-----------------------------------\n";
	print "Downloading product list...\n";

	"""A basic database set-up for Travis CI.

	The set-up uses the 'TRAVIS' (== True) environment variable on Travis
	to detect the session, and changes the default database accordingly.

	Be mindful of where you place this code, as you may accidentally
	assign the default database to another configuration later in your code.
	"""

	import os

	13:15 <xQuasar> \| HASKELL IS FOR FUCKIN FAGGOTS. YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF
	\| FUCKIN PUSSIES
	13:15 <xQuasar> \| JAVASCRIPT FOR LIFE FAGS
	13:16 <luite> \| hello
	13:16 <ChongLi> \| somebody has a mental illness!
	13:16 <merijn> \| Wow...I suddenly see the error of my ways and feel
	\| compelled to write Node.js!
	13:16 <genisage> \| hi
	13:16 <luite> \| you might be pleased to learn that you can compile
	\| haskell to javascript now