adamwiggins

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

vedang

    - Specific Notmuch filters (and saved-searches) for:
      + The Feed (newsletters, blogs)
      + The Paper trail (receipts, ledger)
      + Screened Inbox (mail from folks you actually want to read)
      + Previously Seen (important mail that you've already read)
      + Unscreened Inbox (potential spam / stuff you don't want)
      
    - Elisp Functions to move / categorize emails from a particular sender. 
      + Adds tags needed by filters defined above to all email sent by a particular sender
      + Creates an entry in a DB file, which is used by the Notmuch post-new script when indexing new email, to auto-add the relevant tags.

vangberg

Installing and configuring dwm on OS X

1. Install XQuartz (http://xquartz.macosforge.org) which is the development version of the X11.app that ships with OS X, which means it is way more up to date. I have had some weird issues with X11.app v. 2.3-something. XQuartz 2.5.0 fixed that.

2. Install dwm from Homebrew, brew install dwm. This makes a bunch of necessary tweaks to the DWM configuration.

3. Add the following script to $PATH, name it dwm-launch and chmod 755:

   cd ~
   

while true

acolyer

Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

• http://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/jamesrh_lisa.pdf

Basic tenets

• Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
• Have we kept things as simple as possible?

fay59

Here's a list of mildly interesting things about the C language that I learned mostly by consuming Clang's ASTs. Although surprises are getting sparser, I might continue to update this document over time.

There are many more mildly interesting features of C++, but the language is literally known for being weird, whereas C is usually considered smaller and simpler, so this is (almost) only about C.

1. Combined type and variable/field declaration, inside a struct scope [https://godbolt.org/g/Rh94Go]

struct foo {
   struct bar {
 int x;

josephwecker

#!/bin/bash
# License: Public Domain.
# Author:  Joseph Wecker, 2012
#
# -- DEPRICATED --
# This gist is slow and is missing .bashrc_once
# Use the one in the repo instead! https://github.com/josephwecker/bashrc_dispatch
# (Thanks gioele)
#
# Are you tired of trying to remember what .bashrc does vs .bash_profile vs .profile?

jpillora

// A small SSH daemon providing bash sessions
//
// Server:
// cd my/new/dir/
// #generate server keypair
// ssh-keygen -t rsa
// go get -v .
// go run sshd.go
//
// Client:

rsampaio

Table of Contents

• 1. Week 1
  • 1.1. Introduction
    • 1.1.1. Logistics
    1.1.2. Material overview

mariusae

;; emacsd-tile.el -- tiling windows for emacs

(defun swap-with (dir)
  (interactive)
  (let ((other-window (windmove-find-other-window dir)))
    (when other-window
      (let* ((this-window  (selected-window))
             (this-buffer  (window-buffer this-window))
             (other-buffer (window-buffer other-window))
             (this-start   (window-start this-window))

alandipert

(ns ded
  "Structural Data EDitor for Clojure with zippers.  Inspired by Interlisp: http://larry.masinter.net/interlisp-ieee.pdf"
  (:require [clojure.zip :as z])
  (:use [clojure.pprint :only (with-pprint-dispatch code-dispatch pprint)]
        [clojure.repl :only (source-fn)]))

(defn print-hr
  "Prints 30 dashes and a newline."
  [c]
  (println (apply str (repeat 30 c))))