UnquietCode

Lava Lamp Random Number Generator

(extracted from the now defunct SGI project at http://lavarand.sgi.com/cgi-bin/how.cgi via the magical Internet Archive Wayback Machine)

Lava Lamps can be used as a source of randomness, which can be used to establish a random number generator. The output of the RNG can then be consumed by various computer applications.

Step 1: Establish a chaotic system

(Set up Lava Lite® lamps in a machine room.)

branneman

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

defunctzombie

The spec has moved to a repo: https://github.com/defunctzombie/package-browser-field-spec to facilitate collaboration.

dcuddeback

module ActiveRecord
  module ConnectionAdapters
    module DatabaseStatements
      #
      # Run the normal transaction method; when it's done, check to see if there
      # is exactly one open transaction. If so, that's the transactional
      # fixtures transaction; from the model's standpoint, the completed
      # transaction is the real deal. Send commit callbacks to models.
      #
      # If the transaction block raises a Rollback, we need to know, so we don't