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djbenderon A simple git branching model

Rebase is good for when you need to rewrite or clean-up history. For example: all those "WIP" commits you'll frequently see aren't exactly helpful. If you want to rewrite history of a branch that others are actively working on, well then you're going to have A Bad Time™.

djbenderon Show HN: Rails Performance Help – Tracer Bullets

Very simple library and execution! Thanks so much!

djbenderon Poll: How old are you?

Age is only a number.

djbenderon Any iPhone can be hacked with a modified charger in under a minute

Hardware access is root access.

djbenderon Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help

> I feel as though I've invested too much time and energy to bail now.

Look up Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Also this related episode of Freakonomics is great: http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/new-freakonomics-radi...

djbenderon Please use git pull --rebase

Mislav has a great article on this topic: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2013/02/merge-vs-rebase/

djbenderon Here is today

Works for me. Same browser.

djbenderon Ask HN: What is your daily reading list?

Facebook and Hacker News. My friends post a lot of intriguing articles.

djbenderon Unicorn

Thank you _so_ much. A renaming will really help set your projects apart.

djbenderon We call ourselves innovators, but most of us are really just iterators

I consider myself a remixer. Related, I recommend this video series on the topic: http://www.everythingisaremix.info

djbenderon Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort

I can't stop laughing. Well done!

djbenderon Ask HN: How much of your time is spent on classical algorithmic problems?

Zero.

djbenderon Bootstrap 3 preview

yeah those classes are not new.

djbenderon Improved searching with The Silver Searcher

From the github page (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher):

  ack blahblahblah ~/code  6.59s user 1.94s system 99%  cpu 8.547 total

  ag  blahblahblah ~/code  1.39s user 1.81s system 229% cpu 1.396 total

djbenderon Show HN: Emails that Self-Destruct and Notify You When Read

oh hey, you did blamestella as well? nice work!

djbenderon Show HN: Emails that Self-Destruct and Notify You When Read

Related: https://onetimesecret.com

(I am unaffiliated, just like this service.)

djbenderon ActiveRecord Vulnerability - Circumvention of attr_protected

It looks like this is specific to active_model.

https://rubyonrails-security.googlegroups.com/attach/bb44b98...

djbenderon Histo.c – histograms in the terminal for static or streaming data

thank you very much! I even had it starred. hah.

djbenderon Histo.c – histograms in the terminal for static or streaming data

There was a tool that prints out one line graphs using utf8 characters. I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head unfortunately.

djbenderon Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

"Not allowed to load local resource: file:///"

djbenderon Man uses GitHub as a bug tracker for his house

forked :)

djbenderon Namecheap Makes $44,000 Donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation

All of them.

djbenderon Parsley.js: never write a single JavaScript line to validate your forms

Could you give an off the top of your head example?

djbenderon Rails has Two Default Stacks

me too. slim is pretty much the bee's knees.

djbenderon Multiple vulnerabilities in parameter parsing in Action Pack

hugs += 1

djbenderon Multiple vulnerabilities in parameter parsing in Action Pack

love += 1

djbenderon Why we've banned null in our codebase

Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6CnwYpP...

djbenderon CoffeeKup is markup as CoffeeScript

I can't recommend the slim template engine enough.

http://slim-lang.com

djbenderon I created this small app for you, if you like to write

I'm impressed by the simplicity of the Javascript. Well done. :)

djbenderon Show HN: Badger-Rails

What would it take to make `git push badger master` automagically deploy the app as well?