isaacsanders

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

ryandotsmith

A Backbone.js demo app (Sinatra Backend)

Oct 16 2010

Updates

• 04/10/2011 - Updated application.js and application.rb thanks to @rebo's comments

In this article, I will walk through some simple steps to get a [demo app][2] up and running with [Backbone.js][3] and [Sinatra][4] on [Heroku][5].

simi

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.2.1'

# Bundle edge Rails instead:
# gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git'

gem 'sqlite3'

holman

Just install this in your apps like so:

gem 'test-spec-mini', :git => 'git://gist.github.com/1806986.git', :require => 'mini'

mindscratch

# BSON stores document keys as strings, so Hash keys are strings
# when going into MongoDB and coming out. This extension allows
# a developer to not worry as to whether or not the keys are
# Strings or Symbols.
#
# This requires Mongoid 2.4.3+ and Rails 3.
#
# Instead of needing Rails you could just require ActiveSupport. In your Gemfile (or .gemspec)
# gem "activesupport", ">= 3.0.0"
#

ChuckJHardySnippets

class String
  def to_bool
    return true   if self == true   || self =~ (/(true|t|yes|y|1)$/i)
    return false  if self == false  || self.blank? || self =~ (/(false|f|no|n|0)$/i)
    raise ArgumentError.new("invalid value for Boolean: \"#{self}\"")
  end
end

wr0ngway

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

rss = '.+?Rss:\s+(\d+)'
share =  '.+?Shared_Clean:\s+(\d+)'
share << '.+?Shared_Dirty:\s+(\d+)'
priv =  '.+?Private_Clean:\s+(\d+)'
priv << '.+?Private_Dirty:\s+(\d+)'
MEM_REGEXP = /\[heap\]#{rss}#{share}#{priv}/m

def mem_usage_linux

spikebike

$ go run client.go 
2012/03/28 22:30:21 client: connected to:  127.0.0.1:8000
Client: Server public key is:
[48 129 159 48 13 6 9 42 134 72 134 247 13 1 1 1 5 0 3 129 141 0 48 129 137 2 129 129 0 188 73 207 11 137 150 106 118 45 27 12 18 76 183 252 31 22 193 109 43 118 130 188 244 197 136 26 55 239 51 225 67 171 20 87 35 107 190 16 158 181 84 225 159 112 70 131 173 136 181 130 151 156 4 142 141 218 100 116 219 228 211 136 155 179 220 50 21 181 134 211 72 22 38 226 51 170 165 39 65 231 3 15 26 54 193 142 242 28 66 96 88 138 237 217 65 144 89 231 177 179 200 116 30 45 148 174 56 57 244 29 17 8 22 86 54 215 14 207 55 223 164 216 184 21 46 29 233 2 3 1 0 1] <nil>
2012/03/28 22:30:21 client: handshake:  true
2012/03/28 22:30:21 client: mutual:  true
2012/03/28 22:30:21 client: wrote "Hello\n" (6 bytes)
2012/03/28 22:30:21 client: read "Hello\n" (6 bytes)
2012/03/28 22:30:21 client: exiting
$ 

joshsusser

if Rails.env.development?

  Rails.application.assets.logger = Logger.new('/dev/null')

  Rails::Rack::Logger.class_eval do
    def call_with_quiet_assets(env)
      previous_level = Rails.logger.level
      Rails.logger.level = Logger::ERROR if env['PATH_INFO'] =~ %r{^/assets/}
      call_without_quiet_assets(env)
    ensure

jlong

var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port;     // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search;   // => "?search=test"
parser.hash;     // => "#hash"
parser.host;     // => "example.com:3000"