waseem

class CreateVideos < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :videos do |t|
      t.string  :video
      t.text    :meta_info

      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

quirkey

require 'rblineprof'

module Rblineprof
  module ConsoleHelpers
    include Rblineprof::Helpers

    def lineprof_block(options = {}, &block)
      profile = lineprof(rblineprof_profiler_regex(options[:lineprofiler])) do
        ret = yield
      end

chrissimpkins

Use these rapid keyboard shortcuts to control the GitHub Atom text editor on macOS.

Key to the Keys

• ⌘ : Command key
• ⌃ : Control key
• ⌫ : Delete key
• ← : Left arrow key
• → : Right arrow key
• ↑ : Up arrow key

jorinvo

You got your hands on some data that was leaked from a social network and you want to help the poor people.

Luckily you know a government service to automatically block a list of credit cards.

The service is a little old school though and you have to upload a CSV file in the exact format. The upload fails if the CSV file contains invalid data.

The CSV files should have two columns, Name and Credit Card. Also, it must be named after the following pattern:

YYYYMMDD.csv.

FermiDirak

A step by step guide wallthrough on how to access / read a NYT paywalled article

1. Open the NYT article you want to read in incognito mode
2. Open up your devtool console ([cmd][shift][j] on chrome/mac)
3. Open up the devtools command prompt ([cmd][shift][P] on chrome/mac)
4. Type in the command disable javascript into the command prompt, but don't hit enter
5. Reload the page
6. After the content loads but before the paywall appears, enter your disable javascript command
7. If paywall persists, return to step 3. Otherwise, enjoy your free article.
8. Happy reading!

drkarl

Linux Backup Solutions

I've been looking for the best Linux backup system, and also reading lots of HN comments.

Instead of putting pros and cons of every backup system I'll just list some deal-breakers which would disqualify them.

Also I would like that you, the HN community, would add more deal breakers for these or other backup systems if you know some more and at the same time, if you have data to disprove some of the deal-breakers listed here (benchmarks, info about something being true for older releases but is fixed on newer releases), please share it so that I can edit this list accordingly.

Amanda (comments by sammcj)

• It has a lot of management overhead and that's a problem if you don't have time for a full time backup administrator.

jakeonrails

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stream7

 literally always have to look up the meaning of :limit in migrations when it comes to integer values. Here's an overview. Now let's memorise it (oh, this works for MySQL, other databases may work differently):

:limit	    Numeric Type	Column Size	Max value
1	     tinyint	         1 byte	          127
2	     smallint	         2 bytes	32767
3	     mediumint	         3 byte	        8388607
nil, 4, 11    int(11)	         4 byte	       2147483647
5..8	      bigint	         8 byte	     9223372036854775807

Note: by default MySQL uses signed integers and Rails has no way (that I know of) to change this behaviour. Subsequently, the max. values noted are for signed integers.

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

malarkey

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