Chris Dillon squarism

Advice

Any advice, best practices or rules I run into. Mostly from reading new books.

Use float64 for floating point numbers whenever possible, because all the functions of the math package expect that type.

Rebase when you want a clean merging history. You can merge rebased feature branches and have the best of both worlds. When you are in a branch, rebase to the last commit of the develop or master branch (git rebase -i). Then squash all commits down (except first one). Commit it and it will prompt you for the commit message. Summarize all the commits to be the feature. Now merge like normal. The advantage here is that feature branches won't create long merge bubbles. It's a matter of taste really.

Here's all the custom and normal keyboard shortcuts I use all the time. This is mostly for a Mac.

In iTerm, set left alt to be +ESC

ALT + b - Move one word backward.
ALT + f - Move one word forward.
Ctrl-r - Search history, do this instead of up arrows, you'll make less mistakes when in a rush.
Ctrl-e/a - Move to beginning and end of line without deleting anything.

	require 'java'
	require 'observer'
	require 'thread'
	require 'pp'
	include_class 'java.util.Random'

	# port of deadgrid_refactor
	class DeadGrid
	attr_accessor :block_size, :grid, :width, :height

	# encoding: UTF-8
	# hey when is redis 2.8 coming out with clustering?
	# I DON'T KNOW SO LET'S DO THIS HAPPY HORSE HOCKEY UNTIL THEN


	require 'redis'
	require 'redis/distributed'

	r = Redis::Distributed.new [
	'redis://box1:6379',

	# omfg ocd dev box instructions incoming

	# start with vanilla debian 7

	# the cd installer doesn't give you a local mirror
	# add these lines to the end of sources.list
	# deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
	# deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
	sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

	require 'tire'
	require 'nobrainer'

	NoBrainer.connect 'rethinkdb://server/company'

	class Employee
	include NoBrainer::Document

	field :name
	field :title

	# Plot Twist: Does not contain all my Ruby Tricks <('‿'<)

	# initialize a hash with empty array default value, on no key found, you can just push into a new array
	hash = Hash.new {\|h, k\| h[k] = [] }
	hash[:never_seen_before] << "asdf"
	hash
	# => {:never_seen_before => ["asdf"]}


	# Default method options.

	// You have to have your GOPATH and all that set up for this source file separation
	// to work. I was playing with source file organization at the same time.
	// If this is too annoying, I can rework it.


	// car/car.go

	package main

	import (

	# run me with jruby so that race conditions happen more frequently

	# run with num_threads = 1 and then change num_threads to anything above 1.
	# notice the difference? :D
	num_threads = 1

	require 'active_support'

	class Counter
	cattr_accessor :i

	After Seventy
	Read by Olive Higgins Prouty at her fiftieth reunion at Smith College.

	PAMPER THE BODY
	PROD THE SOUL
	ACCEPT LIMITATIONS
	BUT PLAY A ROLE
	WITHDRAW FROM THE FRONT
	BUT STAY IN THE FIGHT
	AVOID ISOLATION