mipearson

https://twitter.com/davecheney/status/447523678561898496

Why do I think Go is more 'distributed' than other languages, and why do I think that is a good thing ?

1. Go does not have a BDFL, there is no Guido Van Rossem, no Theo De Ralt, etc. We have our spiritual leaders like Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, but their influence is much less immediate.

2. The very nature of the development of the Go standard library discourages adding new stuff to the standard library.

2a. I believe this is a good thing

mipearson

How to calculate an hourly rate.

Hi,

I've been watching job boards for Ruby related contracts lately and have noticed some low rates being offered with high expectations. It's happening frequently enough that I wanted to post my understanding of how to calculate an hourly rate. Setting reasonable standards of pay for the appropriate level of expertise is vital. There's a lot to say on the matter, so I've tried to be brief.

For some reason it's very easy for software developers to match their experience and knowledge to a full-time rate, but for contracting there is less awareness.

The difference between full-time employment and self employment.

mipearson

# -*- encoding : utf-8 -*-
require 'rubygems'
require 'spork'

# From https://gist.github.com/123370
Spork.prefork do
  ActiveSupport::Deprecation.silenced = true

  # Sets up the Rails environment for Cucumber
  ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "cucumber"

mipearson

November 15, 2012

Firemonkeys, Melbourne-based game development studio, is looking to contract server engineers on a short term basis. There are three positions we are looking to fill:

DBA:

• Knows how to use “EXPLAIN”
• Preferably has used maatkit or percona-toolkit
• Can optimise MySQL queries and apply indexes, and understands the impact of adding too many indexes

mipearson

  def ensure_utf8
    # TODO Proper solution using https://github.com/brianmario/charlock_holmes & detection
    # processing copied from http://trackingrails.com/posts/video-encoding-processor-for-carrierwave
    cache_stored_file! if !cached?

    file_data = File.read(current_path)

    # Ugh. Only way to detect bad UTF8. See
    # http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/checkingfixing-bad-bytes-in-ruby-1-9-char-encoding/
    is_valid_utf8 = begin

mipearson

POINTS = {
  "A" => 1, "B" => 3, "C" => 3, "D" => 2,
  "E" => 1, "F" => 4, "G" => 2, "H" => 4,
  "I" => 1, "J" => 8, "K" => 5, "L" => 1,
  "M" => 3, "N" => 1, "O" => 1, "P" => 3,
  "Q" => 10, "R" => 1, "S" => 1, "T" => 1,
  "U" => 1, "V" => 4, "W" => 4, "X" => 8,
  "Y" => 4, "Z" => 10
}

mipearson

POINTS = {
  "A" => 1, "B" => 3, "C" => 3, "D" => 2,
  "E" => 1, "F" => 4, "G" => 2, "H" => 4,
  "I" => 1, "J" => 8, "K" => 5, "L" => 1,
  "M" => 3, "N" => 1, "O" => 1, "P" => 3,
  "Q" => 10, "R" => 1, "S" => 1, "T" => 1,
  "U" => 1, "V" => 4, "W" => 4, "X" => 8,
  "Y" => 4, "Z" => 10
}

mipearson

package bm

import (
	"testing"
)

var mb = map[string]bool{
	"alpha":   true,
	"beta":    true,
	"gamma":   true,