hdznrrd

Software development
- Which platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac, Embedded) will I develop for?

- What programming languages are you using for which kind of projects / applications?
- What Development Environment are you using?

- Are you using any coding style guidelines?  If yes, can I take a look at the document?
- Are you actively supporting / allowing time for keeping your code base maintainable and up to date?
- How do you handle documentation?  Is there time reserved specifically for documenting projects?

piscisaureus

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

mehcode

# Ensure we're in a virtualenv.
if [ "$VIRTUAL_ENV" == "" ]
then
    echo "ERROR: not in a virtual environment."
    exit -1
fi

# Setup variables.
CACHE="/tmp/install-pygtk-$$"

marcusphi

---
# This has been tested with ansible 1.3 with these commands:
#   ansible-playbook -i hosts ansible_conditionals_examples.yaml --extra-vars="hosts=myhosts isFirstRun=false"
#   ansible-playbook -i hosts ansible_conditionals_examples.yaml --extra-vars="hosts=myhosts isFirstRun=true"
#   ansible-playbook -i hosts ansible_conditionals_examples.yaml --extra-vars="hosts=myhosts"
# NB: The type of the variable is crucial!

- name: Ansible Conditionals Examples
  hosts: $hosts
  vars_files:

jvns

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?".

XVilka

THIS GIST WAS MOVED TO TERMSTANDARD/COLORS REPOSITORY.

PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS AS A REPOSITORY ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS INSTEAD!

pjobson

Removal of McAfee from OSX

Note: This was written in 2015, it may be out of date now.

There are a lot of commands here which I use sudo if you don't know what you're doing with sudo, especially where I rm you can severely screw up your system.

There are many reasons which you would want to remove a piece of software such as McAfee, such as not wanting it to hammer your CPU during work hours which seems like primetime for a virus scan.

I intend this to be a living document, I have included suggestions from peoples' replies.

jj1bdx

while true; do date; sleep 5; done

tarruda

#!/bin/bash
# script for pyenv installation of pygtk3 in ubuntu 12.04
# Adapted from https://gist.github.com/mehcode/6172694

system_package_installed() {
	if ! dpkg -l | grep -q $1; then
		sudo apt-get install $1
	fi
}

joepie91

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

• A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
• A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
• There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.