rgs

Falsehoods programmers believe about prices

1. You can store a price in a floating point variable.
2. All currencies are subdivided in 1/100th units (like US dollar/cents, euro/eurocents etc.).
3. All currencies are subdivided in decimal units (like dinar/fils)
4. All currencies currently in circulation are subdivided in decimal units. (to exclude shillings, pennies) (counter-example: MGA)
5. All currencies are subdivided. (counter-examples: KRW, COP, JPY... Or subdivisions can be deprecated.)
6. Prices can't have more precision than the smaller sub-unit of the currency. (e.g. gas prices)
7. For any currency you can have a price of 1. (ZWL)
8. Every country has its own currency. (EUR is the best example, but also Franc CFA, etc.)

parndt

def extension_path_for_nested_extension(path, apply_tmp)
  if File.exist?(path.gsub(/\.erb$/, ""))
    if %r{/(locales/.*\.yml)|((routes|#{gem_name})\.rb\.erb)$} === path
      # put new translations into a tmp directory
      path = path.split(File::SEPARATOR).insert(-2, "tmp").join(File::SEPARATOR) if apply_tmp
    elsif %r{/readme.md$} === path || %r{/#{plural_name}.rb$} === path
      path = nil
    end
  elsif %r{lib\/#{plural_name}.rb$} === path
    path = nil

haileys

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
gem "parser", "~> 1.4"
require "parser"
require "parser/ruby19"
require "set"

class ConstantDeclarationAndUseProcessor < Parser::AST::Processor
  attr_reader :declared, :used

  def initialize

ragingwind

Backend Architectures

Twitter

ror, scala, jetty, erlang, thrift, mongrel, comet server, my-sql, memchached, varnish, kestrel(mq), starling, gizzard, cassandra, hadoop, vertica, munin, nagios, awstats

• Introduce Gizzard of Twitter - 트위터의 새로운 분산 관리 라이브러리 Gizzard를 소개합니다.
• The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5 Seconds
• Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster

ashrithr

Introduction to Kafka

Kafka acts as a kind of write-ahead log (WAL) that records messages to a persistent store (disk) and allows subscribers to read and apply these changes to their own stores in a system appropriate time-frame.

Terminology:

• Producers send messages to brokers
• Consumers read messages from brokers
• Messages are sent to a topic

havenwood

Unscientific Benchmark

The Benchmark

def is_prime? n
  (2...n).all? { |i| n % i != 0 }
end

def sexy_primes n

kvnsmth

Let's say you have an iOS project, and you want to use some external library, like AFNetworking. How do you integrate it?

With submodules

Add the project to your repo:

git submodule add [email protected]:AFNetworking/AFNetworking.git Vendor/AFNetworking

or something to that effect.

sbkinney

/* This function runs when the spreadsheet is opened and populates a menu option
   labelled Zendesk that contains two options (7 days and 30 days) which are tied
   to the listed functions
*/

function onOpen() {
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var entries = [{
  name : "Pull Satisfaction Data (last 7 days, rolling)",
  functionName : "getSatisfactionDataLast7"

sferik

#!/usr/bin/env sh

brew update
brew install rbenv
brew install ruby-build
brew install openssl
CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-openssl-dir=`brew --prefix openssl` rbenv install 2.0.0-preview1

domenic

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.