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Comment on RPX in Action by Quincy Cianflone

Quincy Cianflone — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:40:07 +0000

I have just been promoted to new car sales manager at our Ford Store. I have only been in the business for a year and a half but have been in sales in other areas for over 10 years. In my first year I sold 274 cars/trucks but now I have to figure out how to get my guys to work as hard as I do and do things the right way. Any tips for a new manager?

Comment on Found it! Sorta. by Keith Giachelli

Keith Giachelli — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:11:26 +0000

One more thing. In my opinion that there are lots of travel insurance web sites of reputable companies that allow you enter your holiday details and find you the quotes. You can also purchase this international travel insurance policy on-line by using your credit card. All that you should do is usually to enter your own travel information and you can view the plans side-by-side. Only find the program that suits your financial budget and needs after which use your credit card to buy that. Travel insurance online is a good way to start looking for a respectable company for international holiday insurance. Thanks for sharing your ideas.

Comment on Zenit 11 by Isabella

Isabella — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:52:49 +0000

very nice article, I have been trying to look for this. Thanks!

Comment on A Challenge to the Occupy “Movement” by amanda

amanda — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:55:20 +0000

wonderful to hear an opinion such as this, and see positive change in action, in donation to outside in. very cool!!

Comment on Is Your Code Clever or Maintainable? by Peat

Peat — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:44:37 +0000

It may be technically slower, but it would be negligible. If this were enough to make something significantly slower, then it’s time to rethink the development stack (ie, avoid using templates rendered at request time, use something other than Ruby, etc).

Smaller file sizes can be important for reducing latency over the wire — but the funny thing about minified Javascript is that it’s not necessarily faster than simply using gzip compression in your HTTP responses.

These are both issues where a more holistic knowledge of how a system works is more important than optimizing for code density.

Comment on Is Your Code Clever or Maintainable? by Aaron J. Grier

Aaron J. Grier — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:21:18 +0000

is splitting things out this way a performance hit? I’ve heard smaller size and speed as a justification for some very nasty “optimized” javascript…

Comment on Is Your Code Clever or Maintainable? by Matt Youell

Matt Youell — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:12:48 +0000

I made a gist to clarify: https://gist.github.com/1508303. After revisiting this I think #logged_in? is a much better name.

This goes along with what you were saying. The session ID is yet another thing the next programmer shouldn’t have to fit into their brain when scanning the code.

Comment on Is Your Code Clever or Maintainable? by Peat

Peat — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:14:55 +0000

Agreed — my goal wasn’t to change how it works, just to reformat the code so that it’s more readable. I think #active_session_id is accurate, because that is what the method returns … but you’re right, it’s not a perfect fit.

Comment on Is Your Code Clever or Maintainable? by Matt Youell

Matt Youell — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:09:05 +0000

I like this. I’m working on a small project in a related vein that I hope to share at some point.

Two things that came to mind for me:

1. The method #active_session_id is a great improvement but it’s not answering the question. The question is “do I have an active session?”. I’d change the method to boolean with a name like #active_session? or similar.

2. I’d have the values declared in straight CSS and apply the styles with the conditional.

Comment on A Challenge to the Occupy “Movement” by Aaron J. Grier

Aaron J. Grier — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:44:49 +0000

I am interested in the next chapter of occupy. the occupation got attention, and national conversation has been affected. time to move on to the next phase.

the tea party is an example of how a loose movement can affect the larger political discussion; the republican party has definitely been influenced. hopefully occupy can translate into actual political action.

currently the actions of demonstrators are affecting their fellow 99% more than the 1%.