califield's comments

I was wondering who found this vulnerability. You have to click through to the Git mailing list announcement[1]:

> A big "thanks!" for bringing this issue to us goes to our friends in the Mercurial land, namely, Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler.

It'd be interesting to hear how they came across this. Matt is the leader of the Mercurial project and Augie is a Mercurial core contributor.

This doesn't seem like a high priority upgrade since GitHub now blocks the vulnerability from being pushed to their servers.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1853266

edit: Upgrade ASAP!

> The code comes back to us, and we have to redo it -- there's nothing good about this.

Implement code review and start rejecting their pull requests with constructive criticism and mentoring.

`f` in your example is a global function that cannot be redefined.

The author doesn't mention the go-to option in this scenario: write a data mapper[1] to dehydrate your object.

While I'm a huge proponent of PostgreSQL and the hstore[2]/JSON column types (hstore column type is not mentioned but it existed way before JSON columns), it's still more common to use PostgreSQL in a primarily relational fashion and the author could have touched on that more before giving us the scoop on the new shiny stuff.

[1] http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/dataMapper.html [2] http://postgresguide.com/sexy/hstore.html

This is an exciting space right now. I'm gearing up to launch RPG Classroom this Spring. The name is sort of a combination of their old and new names (gaming and mentoring).

I think their price is a little high, but I guess they have an obligation to charge what people are willing to pay. Instead of charging $30,000, my idea is to accept Bitcoin donations if people are happy with their education.

Besides teaching computer science, I think gamification is a natural next step for primary education (K-12) in this era of attention challenged kids and I hope MakeSchool isn't back-peddling on that. For example, instead of making proof of concept games, I want to put out an RPG that teaches Biology 101 (or build a platform that enables someone else to do it).

To be honest, this library doesn't really make sense.

Perhaps a related but more useful idea would be to adjust the colors of your site to match the user's local time like f.lux...

> We're getting more monolithic and coarse-grained.

At the same time we are pushing more heterogenous software stacks to production and configuring more specific dependencies for our applications.

It almost seems like you're using cross-platform as a pejorative. ;)

As the founder of a "game engine startup", I found this post extremely useful. I'll be purchasing your book if only to support your marketing research.