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Re: What’s going on with transit on the Atlanta BeltLine?

Matt Todd — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 23:33:42 -0000

> Wait, what’s “bus-rapid transit”?

BRT frequently includes fare pre-payment before boarding which reduces the overall boarding time significantly, just like you would see for boarding a MARTA train within a station but within a much simpler/scaled down bus stop station.

https://nacto.org/tsdg/bett... and https://nacto.org/publicati...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

http://www.apta.com/resourc...

https://nacto.org/docs/usdg...

https://brtdata.org/

Re: The 1-bit interface | Justin Dunham

Matt Todd — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:46:18 -0000

What were the durations of the blinks and the delay between them?

Re: Rails 4 compilation links -

Matt Todd — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:13:06 -0000

ActiveRecord::Model has been removed:
https://github.com/rails/ra...

Re: The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth

Matt Todd — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:42:58 -0000

You leave a lot of room for interpretation of what you mean by "management bandwidth." Could you try to define that a little more explicitly?

Coming from an organization that does not have traditional "upper management" or any explicit management roles, responsibility is distributed amongst all our members. I think I understand what you're saying and how to apply it in such an environment but clarifying your meaning would help confim and illuminate that point specifically.

Re: http://social-proof.org/post/18387776795

Matt Todd — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:45:25 -0000

And then we went to Rickhouse. True story.

Re: Being acquired doesnât have to suck // The Programming Butler

Matt Todd — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:51:06 -0000

I'm glad you're in my bed, mister magic.

Re: http://richardlog.com/post/12743073497

Matt Todd — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:56:30 -0000

I've used http://jsonformatter.curiou... many times, but for the shell, something as simple as this could work: https://gist.github.com/136...

Re: brain of mat kelcey

Matt Todd — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:42:51 -0000

Nice work. I started doing this with a friend but quickly got bored and annoyed at parsing Wikipedia directly.

One thing we noticed was that, yes, many routed through to Philosophy, but it is also true that most of those same articles link through things like Knowledge, Mathematics, etc. We had pretty good success changing the target and finding similar results.

Cheers.

Re: 37Signals Quietly Removes Its Famous Basecamp Manifesto

Matt Todd — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:48:26 -0000

Is this news?

Re: Keeping It Simple

Matt Todd — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:44:43 -0000

Mike Krieger, cofounder of Instagram, spoke at CodeConf about working out ideas on paper making them easy to throw away. Good stuff.

Re: Logs Are Streams, Not Files

Matt Todd — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:30:44 -0000

Hey Adam, great post.

Is there an open ticket to modify Rails to write to STDOUT by default instead? I did a quick search and didn't find anything. This is something I'd get behind changing.

Re: Use lambdas for Rails 3 Route Constraints | Intridea Blog

Matt Todd — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:40:17 -0000

Agreed! :)

Re: Beware of Ruby Syntactic Sugar — Andy Lindeman

Matt Todd — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:51:03 -0000

What if you called step(1.day.to_i)?

Re: CloudEdit: A Backbone.js Tutorial with Rails

Matt Todd — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:43:33 -0000

I second everything Samuel pointed out. Couldn't have said it better.

Re: Recursive Reverse Array in Ruby — Andy Lindeman

Matt Todd — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:35:42 -0000

More specifically, though, is solving this in an object oriented way! It feels weird when I'm not throwing around resources and whatnot, lol.

Re: Recursive Reverse Array in Ruby — Andy Lindeman

Matt Todd — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:55:10 -0000

Here's slightly more idiomatic way:
https://gist.github.com/743132

Idioms of note:
* provide as an instance method on all Arrays (by reopening the class, aka monkey patching)
* self is the Array in this context, method calls assume self as target, called on the Array contents
* short circuit early, avoid using ternary
* splat (which you'd already been using)

Contrived, for sure, but fun nonetheless. :)

Re: Conserve the FDs or Hanging FDs

Matt Todd — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:08:41 -0000

File.read() is great to just get the contents quickly without having to worry about FDs, and File.open{} (its block form) will make sure to close it once the block has finished execution.

Re: Full Exploitation

Matt Todd — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:31:20 -0000

Perhaps it's a sign of a weak conceptual grasp of the problem at hand? If someone has a problem thinking in terms of the model, they will resort to something more familiar, having to explain to the computer exactly what to do instead of just instructing it with what is desired.

Just a guess.

Re: Downtime

Matt Todd — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:50:23 -0000

Also, a more technical post-mortem would be far more interesting. But that's just a nicety.

Re: Downtime

Matt Todd — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:49:06 -0000

Stop being so damn sorry.

Seriously, Tumblr is a great service and you should stop being so apologetic because it makes you look weak. You are better than that.

Always get better, convey that to your customers, and prove it to them when they doubt. Words are shallow.

Keep up the good work.

Re: Github is a blood sucking leech.

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Re: Intuition has no transfer encoding — Martin Kleppmann‘s blog

Matt Todd — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:49:39 -0000

My mind works in very similar ways to the way you describe and I wonder if everyone does but only some emphasize this style of cognizance.

You might find this thought interesting: I've recognized a zig-zag of awareness when pursuing a thought or opinion deeper... a natural acceptance and rejection of ideas that leads to a deeper opinion or understanding of a topic or idea. The flip-flop happens more often when you're aware of the extremes, but it happens regardless when you realize that there are more ways to view something than just your current view.

My conception of this notion arrived out of thinking about how we arrive at decisions based on our previous experiences and trying to visualize the decision paths we make in our minds when weighing options, which naturally has flip-flopping.

Anyways, thanks for sharing, it really stimulated me and confirmed how I interpret my experiences and my own use of intuition.

Re: art du jour, by matttodd

Matt Todd — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:38:15 -0000

Where's my copyright!!!

I have the same picture in the summer some 8 years later too :)

Re: RailsRumble 2010 Redux

Matt Todd — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:55:01 -0000

We ultimately decided to use Devise instead since Authlogic was giving us significant problems. I've come to like Devise quite a bit, in fact, and would recommend it.

Re: "The Vision of a Tester"

Matt Todd — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:47:43 -0000

My testing hero changes to whatever beautiful soul wrote tests around some code I'm debugging at a given time! :)

But really, though, anytime I find myself battling with a library that happens to have tests for the part I'm using, debugging, or extending, I feel so encouraged to keep using, fixing, or improving the library. It's as if seeing someone else's toil convinces me to "compete again."

Disqus - Latest Comments for maraby

Re: What’s going on with transit on the Atlanta BeltLine?

Re: The 1-bit interface | Justin Dunham

Re: Rails 4 compilation links -

Re: The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth

Re: http://social-proof.org/post/18387776795

Re: Being acquired doesnât have to suck // The Programming Butler

Re: http://richardlog.com/post/12743073497

Re: brain of mat kelcey

Re: 37Signals Quietly Removes Its Famous Basecamp Manifesto

Re: Keeping It Simple

Re: Logs Are Streams, Not Files

Re: Use lambdas for Rails 3 Route Constraints | Intridea Blog

Re: Beware of Ruby Syntactic Sugar — Andy Lindeman

Re: CloudEdit: A Backbone.js Tutorial with Rails

Re: Recursive Reverse Array in Ruby — Andy Lindeman

Re: Recursive Reverse Array in Ruby — Andy Lindeman

Re: Conserve the FDs or Hanging FDs

Re: Full Exploitation

Re: Downtime

Re: Downtime

Re: Github is a blood sucking leech.

Re: Intuition has no transfer encoding — Martin Kleppmann‘s blog

Re: art du jour, by matttodd

Re: RailsRumble 2010 Redux

Re: "The Vision of a Tester"

Re: Being acquired doesnât have to suck // The Programming Butler