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I do a lot of work on open source, but my most valuable contributions haven't been code. Writing a patch is the easiest part of open source. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers, mailing lists, documentation, and other management tasks. Here's some things I've learned along the way...

has_many is an anti-pattern which leads straight to monolithic applications. However, a simple inversion can free us from its grasp. What is the first model you added to your application? Probably User, right? So, once you wrote user.rb and its corresponding tests, and committed it - why did you ever open that file up again to tell it about something that it did not need to know existed? Rails keeps you from reopening user.rb if you add a column to the User table, and this is good, right? So why, when you added a Posts table far away, did you open up User again to make it aware of Posts? Did the definition of being a user change? Did you did not realize you were violating the Open-Closed Principle, one of the 5 principles of SOLID design? Somewhere inside I bet you knew it felt dirty to keep opening up User and making it aware of things that it had been blissfully unaware of.

It all sounds so straightforward: Put your code up on GitHub or start/join a project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), build a community of like-minded individuals, start a company, take in some funding, and then IPO. Or maybe not. One thing is certain: Running an open source company has unique challenges and opportunities.

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PostgreSQL is an open source multi-purpose relational database system which is widely used throughout the world. It is one huge system with the integrated subsystems, each of which has a particular complex feature and works with each other cooperatively. Although understanding of the internal mechanism is crucial for both administration and integration using PostgreSQL, its hugeness and complexity prevent it.

uryvok z knizky Thinking, Fast and Slow od D. Kahnemana: "The principle of independent judgments (and decorrelated errors) has immediate applications for the conduct of meetings, an activity in which executives in organizations spend a great deal of their working days. A simple rule can help: before an issue is discussed, all members of the committee should be asked to write a very brief summary of their position. This procedure makes good use of the value of the diversity of knowledge and opinion in the group. The standard practice of open discussion gives too much weight to the opinions of those who speak early and assertively, causing others to line up behind them."

kto pojde najblizsie do ciny by to mal urcite vyskusat.. After holding the eye open and running his blade across the surface of the eyeball, the barber then inserts a small rod beneath the upper and lower lids and scrapes it back and forth.

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Dozens of facts about the SSH protocol and why we should use it for more things. A few weeks ago, I wrote ssh-chat. The idea is simple: You open your terminal and type, $ ssh chat.shazow.net Unlike many others, you might stop yourself before typing "ls" and notice - that's no shell, it's a chat room!

There's no such thing as an anonymous programmer: your coding style can unmask you, according to research led by Drexel University Comp. Sci. PhD student Aylin Caliskan-Islam. In work that has serious implications for anyone believing their open source project contributions are anonymous, the researchers find that as many as 95 per cent of contributors to a decent-sized code base can be identified.

Need-to-know (like other security measures) can be misused by persons who wish to refuse others access to information they hold in an attempt to increase their personal power or prevent unwelcome review of their work.