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@jacoby
jacoby / dropbox_copy.pl
Last active September 19, 2019 20:08
Download Dropbox directories to places where you don't have Dropbox
#!/home/djacoby/webserver/perl/bin/perl
# This program is used to download a Dropbox directory onto a machine
# without Dropbox tools installed
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
use feature qw{ postderef say signatures state };
no warnings qw{ experimental::postderef experimental::signatures };
@JoeyBurzynski
JoeyBurzynski / 55-bytes-of-css.md
Last active May 15, 2024 20:11
58 bytes of css to look great nearly everywhere

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}
@gtallen1187
gtallen1187 / scar_tissue.md
Created November 1, 2015 23:53
talk given by John Ousterhout about sustaining relationships

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation