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Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

(Chapters marked with * are already written. This gets reorganized constantly
and 10 or so written chapters that I'm on the fence about aren't listed.)
Programmer Epistemology
* Dispersed Cost vs. Reduced Cost
* Verificationist Fallacy
* Mistake Metastasis
The Overton Window
Epicycles All The Way Down
The Hyperspace Gates Were Just There
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aaronrussell / background_noise_function.rb
Created March 5, 2011 18:24
Sass implementation of the Noisy jquery plugin: https://github.com/DanielRapp/Noisy
require "rubygems"
require "chunky_png"
require "base64"
module Sass::Script::Functions
def background_noise(c, noise = 0.5, opacity = 0.08, size = 200, mono = false)
# Convert SASS numbers to Ruby classes
noise = noise.to_s.to_f if noise.is_a? Sass::Script::Number