gruber

The regex patterns in this gist are intended to match any URLs,
including "mailto:foo@example.com", "x-whatever://foo", etc. For a
pattern that attempts only to match web URLs (http, https), see:
https://gist.github.com/gruber/8891611


# Single-line version of pattern:

(?i)\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

theburningmonk

#r "System.Xml.dll"
#r "System.Runtime.Serialization.dll"

open Microsoft.FSharp.Reflection
open System.IO
open System.Reflection
open System.Runtime.Serialization
open System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary
open System.Runtime.Serialization.Json
open System.Text

christopherscott

// Convert Excel dates into JS date objects
//
// @param excelDate {Number}
// @return {Date}

function getJsDateFromExcel(excelDate) {

  // JavaScript dates can be constructed by passing milliseconds
  // since the Unix epoch (January 1, 1970) example: new Date(12312512312);

omz

# Example for sending an email with an attached image using smtplib
# 
# IMPORTANT: You need to enter your email login in the main() function.
#            The example is prepared for GMail, but other providers
#            should be possible by changing the mail server.

import smtplib
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email import encoders

yorkie

/*
 * check the array is sorted
 * return: if positive ->  1
 *         if negative -> -1
 *         not sorted  ->  0
 */
Array.prototype.isSorted = function() {
  return (function(direction) {
    return this.reduce(function(prev, next, i, arr) {

cheynewallace

# Usage:  powershell ExportSchema.ps1 "SERVERNAME" "DATABASE" "C:\<YourOutputPath>"


# Start Script
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

# Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy:Unrestricted -Scope:LocalMachine
function GenerateDBScript([string]$serverName, [string]$dbname, [string]$scriptpath)
{
  [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO") | Out-Null

rwjblue

Object Model & Concepts

• Ember.Object by @bcardarella
• Ember.Controller by @bcardarella

SpotlightKid

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-
"""Download Zip bundle of Python package requirements for MarkdownPDF.py
and extract them to 'site-packages' sub-directory.

This is meant for Pythonista (an iOS app) users as an easy way to install
these packages.

Packages included in the Zip bundle:

genadyo

{
    "491289025" : "ijinshan-kappmarket://",
    "301521403" : "fb103361823069955://",
    "492178411" : "ils492178411://",
    "346142396" : "fb234434003713://",
    "310633997" : "whatsapp://",
    "370614765" : "com.condenet.newyorker://",
    "325058491" : "rnmddisco://",
    "382952264" : "epichttp://",
    "477048487" : "predictwind://",