Radu Micu radum

Why?

There is a long standing issue in Ruby where the net/http library by default does not check the validity of an SSL certificate during a TLS handshake. Rather than deal with the underlying problem (a missing certificate authority, a self-signed certificate, etc.) one tends to see bad hacks everywhere. This can lead to problems down the road.

From what I can see the OpenSSL library that Rails Installer delivers has no certificate authorities defined. So, let's go fetch some from the curl website. And since this is for ruby, why don't we download and install the file with a ruby script?

Installation

The Ruby Way! (Fun)

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

	# Enable GZIP
	<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
	BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
	</ifmodule>

	# Expires Headers - 2678400s = 31 days
	<ifmodule mod_expires.c>

	// ----------------------------------------------------------
	// A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript
	// without resorting to user-agent sniffing
	// ----------------------------------------------------------
	// If you're not in IE (or IE version is less than 5) then:
	// ie === undefined
	// If you're in IE (>=5) then you can determine which version:
	// ie === 7; // IE7
	// Thus, to detect IE:
	// if (ie) {}

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
	<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
	<head>

	<title>Drag Controls for Oversized Content</title>

	<style type="text/css">
	#full-sized-area {
	position: relative;

	:+1:
	:-1:
	:airplane:
	:art:
	:bear:
	:beer:
	:bike:
	:bomb:
	:book:
	:bulb:

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
	Version 2, December 2004

	Copyright (C) 2011 Jed Schmidt <http://jed.is>

	Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
	copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
	as the name is changed.

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

	Drop in replace functions for setTimeout() & setInterval() that
	make use of requestAnimationFrame() for performance where available
	http://www.joelambert.co.uk

	Copyright 2011, Joe Lambert.
	Free to use under the MIT license.
	http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

	var rAF = "equestAnimationFrame";

	window["r"+rAF] = window["r"+rAF] \|\|
	window["webkitR"+rAF] \|\|
	window["mozR"+rAF] \|\|
	window["msR"+rAF] \|\|
	window["oR"+rAF];


	// A list

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# Generates gource video (h.264) out of multiple repositories.
	# Pass the repositories in command line arguments.
	# Example:
	# <this.sh> /path/to/repo1 /path/to/repo2

	RESOLUTION="1600x1080"
	outfile="gource.mp4"

	i=0