Andrew L. Joseph ofus

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

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?".

GnuPG 2.1.20 Build Instructions

Below you is my build instructions for GnuPG 2.1.20 released on 03-Apr-2017. These instructions are built for a headless Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server.

Or if you wish, you may use the install script to install GnuPG 2.1.20 by entring the following:

curl -sL "https://gist.github.com/mattrude/3883a3801613b048d45b/raw/install-gnupg2.sh" |sh

Install the needed depends

apt-get -y install libgnutls-dev bzip2 make gettext texinfo gnutls-bin \

	/**
	* Annoying.js - How to be an asshole to your users
	*
	* DO NOT EVER, EVER USE THIS.
	*
	* Copyright (c) 2011 Kilian Valkhof (kilianvalkhof.com)
	* Visit https://gist.github.com/767982 for more information and changelogs.
	* Visit http://kilianvalkhof.com/2011/javascript/annoying-js-how-to-be-an-asshole/ for the introduction and weblog
	* Check out https://gist.github.com/942745 if you want to annoy developer instead of visitors
	*

	(based on http://www.whatsmypass.com/the-top-500-worst-passwords-of-all-time)

	123456
	porsche
	firebird
	prince
	rosebud
	password
	guitar
	butter

	Trello: http://trello.com

	Fantastic, simple project management. Free tier does most things you'll ever need. I've tried Basecamp, Unfuddle and a million bug trackers, but a combination of Github and Trello is what I like best. Trello gives you a nice full overview of your whole project and who is doing what. It also makes it really easy to reorganize priorities. Unless my client has a project management tool they want me to use, I create a Trello board and add the client and try to centralize as much communication as possible in there.


	Toggl: http://toggl.com

	Best time-tracking app I've tried, with native apps for just about every OS. Free tier does most things you'll ever need. Paid tier does even more and plugs into various other tools.

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.system.proxy

	# Change de ip address and port number accordingly.
	function myProxyOn() {
	gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'manual' # ' manual / nome / automatic '
	gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http host '10.0.0.1'
	gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http port 8080
	gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https host '10.0.0.1'

	# ANSI color codes
	RS="\[\033[0m\]" # reset
	HC="\[\033[1m\]" # hicolor
	UL="\[\033[4m\]" # underline
	INV="\[\033[7m\]" # inverse background and foreground
	FBLK="\[\033[30m\]" # foreground black
	FRED="\[\033[31m\]" # foreground red
	FGRN="\[\033[32m\]" # foreground green
	FYEL="\[\033[33m\]" # foreground yellow
	FBLE="\[\033[34m\]" # foreground blue

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import sys
	import hashlib
	from OpenSSL.crypto import *

	def main():
	if(len(sys.argv) != 4):
	print sys.argv[0] + " /path/to/ssl.crt /path/to/ssl.key ProcessedMachineIdentifier"
	sys.exit(0)