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by tcopeland 9y ago
Looks interesting! I've always used https://github.com/aasm/aasm , but this looks pretty good. More generally I get worried about my ActiveRecord objects getting too bulky and business logic getting all wound up i
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by tcopeland 9y ago
When my wife's parents come visit us from Moldova they usually bring over a box of Turkish Delight; it's always unveiled with cries of "Turkish Delight for the young prince! Ha ha ha!"
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by tcopeland 9y ago
More generally if you like functional programming, the archives of the "Functional Geekery" podcast are a great resource: https://www.functionalgeekery.com/ There's at least one episode that's devoted to
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The Constructive No(monkeyandcrow.com)
1 points by tcopeland 9y ago|0 comments
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A Ruby shadowing bug in the wild(thomasleecopeland.com)
2 points by tcopeland 9y ago|0 comments
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Turning a data set into a game(thomasleecopeland.com)
2 points by tcopeland 10y ago|0 comments
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by tcopeland 10y ago
There's an interesting bit at the end of John Barry's "The Great Influenza" about how Wilson got the flu at Versailles. Barry suggests that Wilson was physically and mentally affected and thus gave in on terms around pu
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by tcopeland 10y ago
When my wife's parents come visit us from Moldova they usually bring over a box of Turkish Delight; it's always unveiled with cries of "Turkish Delight for the young prince! Ha ha ha!"
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by tcopeland 10y ago
Thanks for including real numbers, e.g. "Only 100 requests were rejected this month from this rate limiter". Always interesting to see how much a particular trapdoor actually had to be opened.
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by tcopeland 10y ago
You're in good company with liking this one - "The Box" was on the 2017 Navy reading list ( http://navyreading.dodlive.mil/ ).
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by tcopeland 10y ago
At one point I was working on a utility to detect suboptimal sequence of method calls; canonical example is using "[1,2,3].select {|x| x > 1 }.first" rather than "[1,2,3].detect {|x| x > 1}". These can be performa
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by tcopeland 10y ago
To me microservices work when you split out things that the core app doesn't always need. So "promocodes" becomes its own microservice because not all purchases need a promo code. And now the main app isn't cluttered w
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Six years is too long to go between server rebuilds(thomasleecopeland.com)
1 points by tcopeland 10y ago|0 comments
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Upgrade Ruby, find a bug(thomasleecopeland.com)
1 points by tcopeland 10y ago|0 comments
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by tcopeland 10y ago
Yup, that's on the March 2014 revision of the Army Infantry Basic Officer Leader Course reading list, the April 2009 revision of the Army Chief of Infantry list, and the April 2011 revision of the Army Maneuver Center of Excellence lis
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by tcopeland 10y ago
Yup, official military reading lists include a fair bit of fiction. Recent ones that I can think of are Ghost Fleet, Starship Troopers, Enders Game, Red Badge of Courage, The Orphan Master's Son, The Kite Runner. The really nice thing
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by tcopeland 10y ago
In my experience, military web sites are pretty spotty in terms of maintaining links. So for the past decade or so I've been keeping a "list of lists": https://militaryreadinglists.com/ Always looking for ne
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by tcopeland 10y ago
At one point Sven Jacob added some data flow analysis. It was interesting stuff; I feel like we could have taken that a lot further. But anyhow, the combination of PMD and FindBugs can find quite a few bugs that would be hard to track dow
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by tcopeland 10y ago
I remember you writing that, thanks Keith!
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by tcopeland 10y ago
For many more variations on Star Wars in terms of the modern military, check out Angry Staff Officer's posts: https://angrystaffofficer.com/category/star-wars/ One of my favorites is "Skywalker on Trial&
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Rewriting Ruby with synvert(thomasleecopeland.com)
6 points by tcopeland 10y ago|0 comments
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Programs that rewrite Ruby programs(thomasleecopeland.com)
77 points by tcopeland 10y ago|8 comments
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Classic Military Quotes Brought into the Modern Era(angrystaffofficer.com)
3 points by tcopeland 10y ago|0 comments
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by tcopeland 10y ago
Andrew Turley has given a nice COBOL talk; the title alone - "What We Can Learn from COBOL" - is worth the price of admission: http://confreaks.tv/videos/goruco2014-what-we-can-learn-from...
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by tcopeland 10y ago
Haha I put that one in there for a buddy of mine who's a big Sox fan :-)
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by tcopeland 10y ago
Thanks! They're getting pulled randomly each time. So far I've been finding videos and adding data manually; it would be interesting to try to get some of the data from some combination of the mlb.com APIs and the YouTube APIs.
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Show HN: Passed ball or wild pitch?(passedballorwildpitch.com)
10 points by tcopeland 10y ago|4 comments
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by tcopeland 10y ago
In which case that start-up succeeding mostly by not giving a shit about any actual business problem and just hiring a group of excellent engineers. But I think the acquisition amount in these cases will be small; maybe 2x? A
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by tcopeland 10y ago
I think the upgrade challenge is going to be the dependencies - declarative_authorization, typus, etc. Ah well, all part of the fun.
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Why is a BasicObject a Range?(thomasleecopeland.com)
1 points by tcopeland 10y ago|0 comments

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