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Re: The Best Wireless Headset for the Office

Avdi Grimm — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:50:42 -0000

In the past when I spent many hours on a headset, I found that wireless headsets made for gaming were better than any of the business-oriented alternatives. They tend to be very comfortable and have long battery life.

It seems like most of these business-oriented headsets are making the assumption that customers want something small. But when I'm spending a full day doing meetings and remote collaboration I'd rather have a big, comfy, noise-isolating around-the-ear headset.

I also get that having a headset which works for both laptop and phone can be a plus, but it often comes at the expense of doing one thing *well*.

I'd be interested to see how you compare your pick to e.g. the Corsair VOID PRO, which seems to be the latest iteration of my last favorite headset.

Re: initialize_clone, initialize_dup и initialize_copy в Ruby: Джон Лейтон

Avdi Grimm — Wed, 10 May 2017 06:15:44 -0000

This is still such a great breakdown. I'm using it to refresh my memory without digging into the source today. Thanks!

Re: An alternate approach to Avdi’s method of slimming down Rails controllers

Avdi Grimm — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:35:08 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to post this!

I don't really see our approaches as being alternatives so much as differing in scale. What you've done here is a re-design, not a refactoring - as you note, it changes the behavior of the code, requiring a change to any HTTP clients.

I'm very careful to separate refactorings from redesign, but it's very often the case that my refactoring is done in order to support a future redesign :-)

Re: The pairing test for naming things

Avdi Grimm — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:21:14 -0000

Love it!

Re: Make Amazing Video with the New Camtasia!

Avdi Grimm — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 09:35:03 -0000

Will rendering finally take advantage of all my cores and no longer take 4-8x longer than rendering in Premiere?

Re: Talking About Diversity: Conspiracy

Avdi Grimm — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 20:23:38 -0000

Just a random reader here to say I'm really, really enjoying this series. Thanks for writing it.

Re: An open letter to Postach.io customers

Avdi Grimm — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 18:19:04 -0000

I just assumed the service was abandoned and deleted my blogs recently :-/

Re: Humanity on Rails (RailsConf 2013)

Avdi Grimm — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:58:20 -0000

Thank you so much for this reading list.

Re: ES6's Generator Function and Ruby's Enumerator. What they are?

Avdi Grimm — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 08:19:00 -0000

Nice writeup!

Re: Does Github Enhance the Need for Code Review?

Avdi Grimm — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 00:10:24 -0000

I want to apologize in advance for being Captain Pedantic: I feel compelled to say that when git arrived on the scene, there were already a number of distributed version control systems in use, including Arch, Darcs, Bazaar, and Mercurial. Some had experienced decent uptake. Git was a relative latecomer, and represented a uniquely Linus-y take on the genre.

Ubuntu continued to use Bazaar for many years (maybe they still do? I've lost touch) and a number of projects continue to use Mercurial. I wanna say Google still digs Mercurial, but I'd need to check that.

Certainly Git has become preeminent, though.

Re: 417 Subprocesses Part 3: Spawn | RubyTapas

Avdi Grimm — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:45:40 -0000

This is really cool, I'm going to keep an eye on this project!

Re: Top 4 Strangest Abandoned Places to Visit in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Avdi Grimm — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:11:56 -0000

P.S. Who can name where this abandoned vehicle is located in the park? :-)

Re: Top 4 Strangest Abandoned Places to Visit in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Avdi Grimm — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:08:16 -0000

What's the source of the featured image? Is there an abandoned locomotive or steam tractor somewhere in the park?

Re: 411 Stay Positive 2 | RubyTapas

Avdi Grimm — Tue, 31 May 2016 18:05:02 -0000

As I recall there was a version I wound up leaving out, which was an "all guard clause" version. It was just one guard clause after another, with a `true` at the very for when none of the guard clauses bailed out early. I recall finding that version about equally palatable - it was another way of getting rid of the inconsistency.

Would an episode with this version be helpful?

Re: 333 Processes Everywhere | RubyTapas

Avdi Grimm — Tue, 31 May 2016 14:26:20 -0000

I'll definitely be doing more episodes as I work out the implications myself.

Re: 401 Whole Value | RubyTapas

Avdi Grimm — Fri, 20 May 2016 17:04:48 -0000

FWIW, the first thing I planned on looking at was the AR composed_of attribute stuff. Or whatever they call it.

Re: 401 Whole Value | RubyTapas

Avdi Grimm — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:01:08 -0000

LOL. I do want to make a Rails-centric follow-up to this, but it's going to take some R&D.

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Re: 196 String Templates | RubyTapas

Avdi Grimm — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:18:09 -0000

Oh, that's unfortunate. I was sad to see no replies on the ruby-core thread for it too :-(

Re: What Makes the Smoky Mountains Smoky?

Avdi Grimm — Sat, 07 May 2016 20:19:28 -0000

I'd love to know who took the (stunning) photos in this article!

Re: 406 Last Match | RubyTapas

Avdi Grimm — Wed, 04 May 2016 06:20:08 -0000

Re: 406 Last Match | RubyTapas

Avdi Grimm — Mon, 02 May 2016 14:30:30 -0000

I think the reason I ended up not mentioning them is that with the ultra-concision of the Perl-style variables on one side, and the explicitness of the Regexp.last_match.* methods on the other, the English versions of these variables occupy a dubious middle ground. In any case I can think of saying "let's use the more readable version", I think I'd go straight to the Regexp.last_match.* methods over the English variables.

Re: 402 Self Save Part 1 | RubyTapas

Avdi Grimm — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:08:10 -0000

I don't recall having a lot of use for controller tests. I've done some other episodes about this stuff, but I'm generally interested in testing persistence in one of two contexts:

1) Acceptance tests, where the app working sort of implies the persistence worked.
2) Integration tests of models, where I am specifically testing some *interesting* aspect of persistence. Not that the model can save itself (boring), but that e.g. a specialized save or query Does The Right Thing.

If I find myself wanting to test controller logic, I would of course isolate the logic by replacing models with test doubles of some kind, as I always do when isolating logic.

I should go over my history and make sure all this stuff is covered in at least one episode.

Re: 402 Self Save Part 1 | RubyTapas

Avdi Grimm — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:03:18 -0000

See my reply to Marcelo

Re: 402 Self Save Part 1 | RubyTapas

Avdi Grimm — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:03:02 -0000

Yes, which is where I think it belongs. Rails doesn't have an official PoEAA "Unit of Work" implementation, so it falls to controllers to manage the unit of work.

Re: How Not To Treat People On Your Email List

Avdi Grimm — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 20:14:43 -0000

I don't know who Nick Disabato is, but that's a pretty great rant and with an important message to boot. Seems fine to me, but then, I don't know what you subscribed to his list for. *shrug*