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// Sort semantic version numbers that look like this:
// 0.21
// 0.21.4.3
// 0.21.4-18bdje
function (a, b) {
  a = a.split(/[-\.]/);
  b = b.split(/[-\.]/);
  for (var i = 0; i < a.length && i < b.length; i++) {
    if (parseFloat(a[i]) > parseFloat(b[i])) {
      return 1;

JoshuaGross

cat /dev/random | LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 8

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echo "{ \"param\": 234 }" | node -e 'var input = ""; process.stdin.on("data", function (d) { input += d.toString(); }); process.stdin.on("close", function () { console.log(JSON.parse(input).param); });'

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-- none of this is terribly interesting, mostly here for reference 

class Functor (f :: * -> *) where
  fmap :: (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
  (<$) :: a -> f b -> f a

-- The same as Functor! 
-- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34732571/why-there-is-no-cofunctor-typeclass-in-haskell/34732721
class Cofunctor (f :: * -> *) where
  fmap :: (b -> a) -> f b -> f a

JoshuaGross

// Compiles with gcc -O0 sdiff_empty.c
// After running your sdiff function once, it will run
// a second time on canned data and compare your results with
// known outputs.

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <inttypes.h>

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console.log('echo -e "' + buf.reduce((s, x) => s + '\\x' + x, '') + '"');

Shell:

echo -e "\x85\x0\x2\x68\x0\x32\x194\x41\x247\x13\x33\x183\x212\x148\x92\x165\x68\x193\x4\x214\x164\x10\x90\x65\x80\x193\x114\x14\x255\x164\x18\x165\x77\x65\x0\x0\x9\x0\x50\x55"

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select * from pg_stat_activity;

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   CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION DateDiff (units VARCHAR(30), start_t TIMESTAMP, end_t TIMESTAMP) 
     RETURNS INT AS $$
   DECLARE
     diff_interval INTERVAL; 
     diff INT = 0;
     years_diff INT = 0;
   BEGIN
     IF units IN ('yy', 'yyyy', 'year', 'mm', 'm', 'month') THEN
       years_diff = DATE_PART('year', end_t) - DATE_PART('year', start_t);
 

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# Requires pg-datediff: https://gist.github.com/JoshuaGross/18b9bb1db8021efc88884cbd8dc8fddb

select datid, query, DateDiff('second', query_start::timestamp, NOW()::timestamp) from pg_stat_activity;

JoshuaGross

Recently I've experienced strange issues with networking inside of Docker containers - like being unable to ping google.com from inside a container, and all of the common suggestions around DNS resolution not helping.

It turns out that Docker will copy your computer's default DNS settings into a container. If you change your DNS settings at some point - either manually or because your machine accepts defaults from your router/provider - the settings inside your cached Docker layers may no longer match what's on your machine, and certain DNS resolutions will fail in unusual ways.

My fix: docker run -it {image} /bin/bash manually (for example, docker run -it python:2.7 bash) to find the root image that is unable to resolve the domain you're interested in, and then remove the culprit with docker rmi {hash}.