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<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>AdjustWindowForFontSizeChange</key>
	<true/>
	<key>AllowClipboardAccess</key>
	<false/>
	<key>AnimateDimming</key>
	<false/>

geeksam

I mostly work in a wemux session so that my coworkers can SSH in and join me on
short notice, and have configured my tmux status bar to show the usernames of
everyone who's logged in.  However, I also sometimes have tmux sessions open with
personal projects, and don't need to see usernames in *those* sessions.  Also,
some people have really long usernames, so I want to assign them nicknames so
the entire list doesn't get truncated.

geeksam

[NOTE: The original version was posted in 2007 on an O'Reilly blog, but the page has been erroring out for months now. I'm copying it here because archive.org, while useful, can be slow. chromatic is a lovely person who (he thinks) probably has copyright to this piece.]

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The "Is It a DSL or an API?" Ten Question Checklist

Saturday May 19, 2007 6:00AM
by chromatic in Opinion

geeksam

module Enumerable
  def counts_by(&property)
    group_by(&property)               # Group my values by some interesting property
      .lazy                           # (in a potentially more GC-friendly way),
      .map {|x,xs| [ x, xs.length ] } # collapsing the sub-lists of values to simple counts...
      .sort_by(&:last)                # and show them in increasing order of frequency (so that,
                                      # if the list is very long, the high numbers are at the end)
  end
end

geeksam

Feature: Salary range comparisons
  
AS A      person involved in a recruitment discussion
I WANT    to know whether the candidate's and recruiter's expected salary ranges overlap
SO THAT   I can avoid spending time on negotiations that can't ultimately be satisfied

AS A      person who knows about the phenomenon of price anchoring
I WANT    to approach this question without necessarily being first to name a number
SO THAT   I don't compromise my negotiating position

geeksam

Trigger Warning for SA/DV (prompted by recent developments in PDX and Ruby worlds)

• (1/9) I have a terribly sloppy habit, when arguing a topic, of skipping supporting points that "should be obvious". So, for the record: (link)
• (2/9) I've had a secondhand education in sexism, DV, oppression theory from my amazing partner, who worked in DV agencies for years. (link)
• (3/9) One thing I've learned is that abuse is shockingly prevalent, highly underreported, and almost always goes unaccounted for. (link)
• (4/9) I believe @saltinejustine. I can't imagine how much courage it takes to speak up. Nobody deserves abuse, or backlash from reporting. (link)
• (5/9) Abusers are everywhere. You probably know at least one. Our culture, and our desire to think wel

geeksam

class Brogrammer
  def ponder_life
    self.if(you == understand.this) {
      get.a.girlfriend;
    }
  end

  def if(predicate)
    yield if predicate
  end

geeksam

Fluency is "what you can say without having to think about how to say
it."  "Refactoring" is a language that describes ways to make your
code better.  I want to inspire you to learn more of that language, so
you can make your code better without having to think about it.

I'll walk you through the process of reworking a 50-line controller
action that's hard to comprehend, let alone refactor.  We'll tease
apart fiendishly intertwined code, embrace duplication, use dirty
tricks to our advantage, and uncover responsibilities that weren't
obvious when we started.

geeksam

Hi, [insert recruiter's first name here]-

I've gone to some lengths to save everyone some time by maintaining a FAQ page on my resume website: http://resume.livingston-gray.com/faq.html

I've even gone so far as to change my LinkedIn profile so that it directs recruiters to read the FAQs before contacting me about relocation opportunities. So, thank you, [recruiter's first name]! By carefully ignoring all of that information, you've freed me from having to feel even remotely guilty for sending you a canned response.

geeksam

if Rails.env.test? || Rails.env.development?
  module Kernel
    def __breadcrumb__(msg = "")
      return unless $debug
      msg = msg.to_s
      breadcrumb = ">>> #{caller.first}"
      breadcrumb << "\n--> #{msg}" if msg.present?
      Rails.logger.debug breadcrumb
      puts '', breadcrumb
    end