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Re: Determine the gender of a first name

Harold Giménez — Mon, 14 May 2018 17:36:36 -0000

Hi! As far as privacy and and regulations like GDPR go, it'd be very useful to know how data is being processed by genderize.io itself. For instance, are the names being saved in your side at all, or does the app do a lookup and respond with the payload without storing anything? How about any caches, or logs? Thanks in advance!

Re: PostgreSQL Addict

Harold Giménez — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 23:17:45 -0000

I reserve comment on the name "Monitoring stats," but I kind of like "Planner Stats" as a better name for the proposed "Data distribution stats"

Re: Copying Heroku Databases Between Apps

Harold Giménez — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:09:21 -0000

Hi. Thanks for the article.

It should be noted that with a production tier database (crane and up) you can instead create a fork of your database into your staging app. https://postgres.heroku.com...

-Harold

Re: http://biggestfool.tumblr.com/post/24049554541

Harold Giménez — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:05:09 -0000

Re: http://biggestfool.tumblr.com/post/24049554541

Harold Giménez — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:01:23 -0000

On Heroku you can just add a config var with your secret token and load that up using ENV, 12 factor app style: http://www.12factor.net/config

Re: Boundary: not just for clusters

Harold Giménez — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:27:18 -0000

Thanks for sharing. What version of postgres?

Re: https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/3/1/postgresql_91_now_default

Harold Giménez — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:10:14 -0000

This only applies to dedicated databases (ronin and up). For now.

Re: https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/1/16/postgresql_91_available_in_beta

Harold Giménez — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:09:04 -0000

No, both forks and followers are of the same version as their parents.

Re: https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/3/1/postgresql_91_now_default

Harold Giménez — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:21:42 -0000

Nope, actually all dedicated postgres plans run on their own clusters. Dedicated plans can be seen here: https://postgres.heroku.com...

Re: https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/3/1/postgresql_91_now_default

Harold Giménez — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:03:10 -0000

Thanks for the heads up. I see it too; we will get it fixed soon.

Re: https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/3/1/postgresql_91_now_default

Harold Giménez — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:58:01 -0000

pg_cancel_backend was only available to super user roles. Because we don't give users super user accounts, that was a problem for users wanting to cancel their queries, so this is a safe way to empower non-super users to do that on their own backends.

Re: Convert Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 hash syntax

Harold Giménez — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:23:52 -0000

My thing also didn't take care of

`rescue Some::Exception => e`

So here's what worked across an entire project.

`perl -pi -e 's/([^\w^:]):([\w\d_]+)\s*=>/\1\2:/g' **/*.rb`

Re: Convert Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 hash syntax

Harold Giménez — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:03:47 -0000

Because the regex looks for any non whitespace character - [^ ]* - it will be too greedy when there are colons prior to that symbol's colon, as is the case with ruby in many cases when colons are used to fully qualify a namespaced class: http://rubular.com/r/xlMLC6.... In that case I ended up with something like Namespace:Class.method(:key: "value")

A more restrictive regex:

`perl -pi -e 's/:([\w\d_]+)(\s*)=>/\1:/g' **/*.rb`

#lolperl

Re: https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/2/8/small_change_big_win

Harold Giménez — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:05:57 -0000

Joe,

2 is a better value than 4. Tuning is a continuous process, and as we gather more data there's always the possibility it will change again.

Re: https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/1/18/postgresql_91_available_in_beta

Harold Giménez — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:10:55 -0000

@Pierre, check out http://addons.heroku.com/he...

Re: The Durable Document Store You Didn’t Know You Had, But Did

Harold Giménez — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:17:40 -0000

Hey @nirvdrum , no idea, have never done compression in the database itself. Something to investigate for sure. With an untrusted language, unlike PLV8, you could shell out and call `gzip` or something. I wonder if there's something on PGXN to do this?

Re: The Durable Document Store You Didn’t Know You Had, But Did

Harold Giménez — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:36:43 -0000

They both use libxml2 to do the actual work, but that said I haven't done crazy amounts of parsing inside Postgres so I can't speak to that.

Re: The Durable Document Store You Didn’t Know You Had, But Did

Harold Giménez — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:29:43 -0000

That's awesome. Definitely check out the javascript language I link to here (PLV8). It's a fast, trusted language that you can run inside postgres to parse JSON data as demonstrated in Will's talk (also linked).

Re: Tidy views and beyond with Decorators

Harold Giménez — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:50:55 -0000

I'm not sure what the DSL would look like but it'd be good to see what you're thinking.

I will say, I haven't felt any pain with the API here, so creating a "cleaner" DSL seems unnecessary, IMO.

Re: Tidy views and beyond with Decorators

Harold Giménez — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:49:28 -0000

Yeah, I've put them in lib/.

Re: How-To: Quick Rails Benchmarking

Harold Giménez — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:31:33 -0000

yup, the command I posted there will install the gcdata patched 1.9.2 MRI Ruby. I added --name gcdata so that it would also call it that. I therefore have:

$ rvm list
...
   ruby-1.9.2-p180-gcdata [ x86_64 ]
=> ruby-1.9.2-p290 [ x86_64 ]

and I can just do

$ rvm use ruby-1.9.2-p180-gcdata
Using /Users/hgimenez/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180-gcdata

Re: http://davidczarnecki.com/post/9766126496

Harold Giménez — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:11:44 -0000

Hey David, thanks for the patch!

Maybe I should've just been straight up: No tests, no merge. It's not about whether it warrants a test: No code should exist that is not tested. If you practice TDD every line of code you write is motivated by a failing test, so this si just a natural extension of that.

There are many ways to test this, but at the end it's not about whether Capistrano logger is doing its job (we know it is) - it's about whether we're using the capistrano logger (the point of your pull request), ensuring no regression bugs, and making it easy to make changes in the future.

Thanks again for the patch, and hope to see more contributions from you in the future!

Re: ActiveRecord, Caching, and the Single Responsibility Principle

Harold Giménez — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:00:43 -0000

it's an (awesome) RSpec helper: http://relishapp.com/rspec/...

Re: See you at PostgreSQL West

Harold Giménez — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:20:51 -0000

you could always OUTER join us.

Re: How to make the most of an apprenticeship

Harold Giménez — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:11:07 -0000

Hey Alex,

Great article! Linking you to the ESR article was arguably a cold move - although it is a classic that must be read at least once. And you're right, there's no such thing as a stupid question.

One of the things that I wanted you to accomplish is improve your autodidacticism even more by tinkering, trying stuff out, researching, experimenting, whatever. That's one the most valuable skills a doer can have and helps secure a life-long learning experience. Go you!

I agree with your sentiment about pairing. Pairing with someone new always teaches me something, either a new programming technique or pattern, a vim trick, or generally anything that helps me become more productive. It's a great way to share knowledge, oftentimes ignorant of the fact you're actually sharing it.

Hopefully we can pair again some day, and you will teach me a thing or two.

Best of luck with the next thing!