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by tcopeland 6y ago
"What writer? We're talking about a sitcom!" https://youtu.be/EQnaRtNMGMI?t=108
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by tcopeland 8y ago
Martin Crevald has a book on the USMC reading list ( https://grc-usmcu.libguides.com/usmc-reading-list/intermedia... ) "The Changing Face of War: Combat from the Marne to Iraq". Interesting that he uses that b
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by tcopeland 8y ago
Another scenario is when an acquisition occurs for the data a company has collected and so the codebases are quietly retired. In that situation there's still some value in paying down some technical debt - security updates on libr
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by tcopeland 8y ago
Maybe Mary Rose Cook live coding a game as a conference presentation: https://vimeo.com/105955605
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by tcopeland 8y ago
FWIW "The Box" is on the current CNO reading list: https://www.navy.mil/ah_online/cno-readingprogram/hvo.html
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by tcopeland 8y ago
That's the truth. I had a thing come up the other day where a client wasn't including a content type header and thus the body was being interpreted as application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Rack middleware to the rescue on that
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by tcopeland 8y ago
"Nudge" is on the Center for Homeland Defense and Security reading list: https://www.chds.us/c/hsbooks
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by tcopeland 8y ago
> I'd definitely include "Kill your dependencies" as a bullet point Or at least your monkeypatches!
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by tcopeland 8y ago
I was always disappointed by rails:update - look at all these crazy changes, I can't do all this stuff! - until I figured out I was using it the wrong way. A good way to use it is to run it in a different branch and then scroll throug
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Invalid or incomplete POST parameters(thomasleecopeland.com)
2 points by tcopeland 8y ago|1 comments
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Safer JSON munging(thomasleecopeland.com)
1 points by tcopeland 8y ago|0 comments
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Building ruby with jemalloc(thomasleecopeland.com)
1 points by tcopeland 8y ago|0 comments
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by tcopeland 8y ago
That looks great, and my local library has a copy, thanks for the pointer!
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Db:migrate:down and Bash completion(thomasleecopeland.com)
1 points by tcopeland 8y ago|0 comments
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by tcopeland 8y ago
Here's a direct link to the PDF: http://www.benning.army.mil/armor/316thCav/ASA/content/pdf/A...
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by tcopeland 8y ago
Interesting, that's on the Army Advanced Situational Awareness reading list ( http://www.benning.army.mil/armor/316thCav/ASA/ReadingList.h... ).
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Advanced Active Record(thomasleecopeland.com)
2 points by tcopeland 8y ago|0 comments
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by tcopeland 8y ago
In the "things learned from Ruby" section: Focus on strong object oriented programming What I've learned from Ruby is to favor functional programming concepts - minimize side effects, isolate state mutation, etc. Ruby
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Active Record associations without foreign keys(thomasleecopeland.com)
1 points by tcopeland 9y ago|0 comments
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An encouraging podcast(thomasleecopeland.com)
1 points by tcopeland 9y ago|0 comments
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Mastering Ruby: Strings and Encodings (ebook)(aaronlasseigne.com)
1 points by tcopeland 9y ago|0 comments
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by tcopeland 9y ago
Yes, although many changes are performance optimizations and other under-the-covers sorts of things. Here are the changes for 2.5 which if tradition holds will be out on Christmas: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news&#x2
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by tcopeland 9y ago
> I'm planning a full rewrite of the interpreter for Ruby 2.0 [...] It will use a bytecode engine. And so it did! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YARV
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Finding missing non-null constraints(thomasleecopeland.com)
2 points by tcopeland 9y ago|0 comments
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by tcopeland 9y ago
In the morning, usually setting things up for whatever operations are scheduled for the 0800-1200. In the evening, squaring things away from whatever we did that day and maybe prepping for night helo ops.
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by tcopeland 9y ago
That an interesting watch rotation to stand. At first I dreaded that one because you get less sleep. But the upside is that 0400-0800 is a quiet time aboard a ship, and 1600-2000 things are usually winding down as well. And if you're
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by tcopeland 9y ago
Yup but coverband doesn't do code coverage during tests (like simplecov); it does code coverage in production by sampling requests and profiling them.
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by tcopeland 9y ago
Seconded; this was a good one. It was on the 2014 U.S. Navy reading list.
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Automating a redirect_to / flash cleanup(thomasleecopeland.com)
1 points by tcopeland 9y ago|0 comments
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Preserving technical knowledge(thomasleecopeland.com)
2 points by tcopeland 9y ago|0 comments

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