alicebartlett

A while ago I did some rage tweeting about job ads. Here is a list of helpful things people sent me to read then and since:

On good hiring generally

• (diverse hiring generally) https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/25-tips-for-diverse-hiring
• (hiring and retaining women) http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/HOWTO_recruit_and_retain_women_in_tech_workplaces
• (Buzzfeed's approach to building a diverse team) http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/what-were-doing-to-keep-building-a-diverse-editorial-operati#3jjmnvr

On programming tests

• https://twitter.com/alicebartlett/status/528300863333605376

vpicavet

-- Open These views with QGIS
--   You can label the ticks view with this expression : "CASE WHEN m % 5 = 0 THEN h END" to get hour numbers
--   Set categorized styles on typ and unit to set different styles for dials, and for the hands
-- Please tweet your best clock designs with #PostGISClock hashtag

create or replace view ticks as
select 
	m as id
	, case when m % 5 = 0 then 'h' else 'm' end as typ
	, m % 5 as h

ryanflorence

var Dialog = React.createClass({
  render: function() {
    // 1) render nothing, this way the DOM diff will never try to do
    //    anything to it again, and we get a node to mess with
    return React.DOM.div();
  },

  componentDidMount: function() {
    // 2) do DOM lib stuff
    this.node = this.getDOMNode();

daudo

bash$ GLOBIGNORE="confidential.txt"
bash$ ls -l /opt/too_many_files/*
secret.txt
top_secret.txt
public.txt 

elithrar

A quick "how to" on what you need to do to both setup AND recover a single-server PostgreSQL database using WAL-E

• WAL-E: https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
• Assuming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ("Precise")
• We'll be using S3. Make sure you have an IAM in a group with GetObject, ListBucket and PutObject on the bucket you want to use (and that it's not public).

Setup:

1. These packages:

sgillies

vas-y:parallelz seang$ time parallel wc ::: `find ~/writing/blog/2013 -name *.rst`
      18     128     791 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/10/07/downgrading-my-blog.rst
     106     567    4011 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/10/08/linking-geojson.rst
      34     249    1586 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/10/24/joining-mapbox.rst
      70     373    2910 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/11/24/introducing-rasterio.rst
      14      45     395 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/12/02/geojson-website-refreshed.rst
      25     158    1256 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/12/03/atom-extension-for-tinkerer.rst
      16      74     627 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/11/27/new-home-on-github-for-geojson.rst
     143     685    6211 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/12/04/json-diff-and-patch-for-geojson.rst
      26     202    1237 /Users/seang/writing/blog/2013/12/05/first-blog-post-at-mapbox.rst

DavidHernandez

The moon is a harsh mistress - Robert A. Heinlein - 5*
A canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller 4*
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes 5* 
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - 4*
The Stars my destination (also known as Tiger! Tiger!) - Alfred Bester - 5*
The Road - Cormac Mc Carthy - 4*
God is Dead - Ron Currie Jr. - 4*
The world without us - Alan Weisman (not really sci fi, but interesting, anyways) - 4*
Animal Farm - George Orwell - 5*
1984 - George Orwell - 5*

hgomez

Mint upgrade procedures

Some investigation and tests on how to upgrade Mint machine.

Tests performed on Mint Cinnamon 14/15/16, on physical machine 14->15 and VirtualBox VMs for 14->15->16 and 14->16.

As usual you could break your machine, so please do backups before and cross fingers.

Mint 14 -> Mint 15

wsargent

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Location: https://github.com/wsargent/docker-cheat-sheet

Hi there!

The docker cheat sheet has moved to a Github project under https://github.com/wsargent/docker-cheat-sheet.

Please click on the link above to go to the cheat sheet.

dergachev

# taken from http://www.piware.de/2011/01/creating-an-https-server-in-python/
# generate server.xml with the following command:
#    openssl req -new -x509 -keyout server.pem -out server.pem -days 365 -nodes
# run as follows:
#    python simple-https-server.py
# then in your browser, visit:
#    https://localhost:4443

import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer
import ssl