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brow / redis.markdown
Created October 26, 2011 10:13 — forked from bdotdub/redis.markdown
Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.

To install:

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brow / gist:1562617
Created January 4, 2012 22:44
Benchmark concatenating strings with reduce(:+) vs. with join('').
require 'benchmark'
STRING = 'abc'
ITERATIONS = 500000
Benchmark.bm do |bench|
for n in [2,3,4]
n_strings = Array.new(n, STRING)
bench.report("add #{n}") do
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brow / gist:1562994
Created January 5, 2012 00:14
require 'benchmark'
STRING = 'abc'
ITERATIONS = 500000
Benchmark.bm do |bench|
for n in [2,3,4]
n_strings = Array.new(n, STRING)
bench.report("add #{n}") do
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brow / gist:2313395
Created April 5, 2012 19:24
<html>
<body>
<div id='fb-root'></div>
<script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1'></script>
<script>
var events = ['edge.create', 'edge.remove', 'xfbml.render'];
for (var i = 0; i < events.length; i++) {
var eventName = events[i];
FB.Event.subscribe(eventName, function(r) { alert(eventName); });
}
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brow / gist:5536080
Created May 7, 2013 21:00
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brow / gist:5536084
Last active December 17, 2015 02:29

Lorem Ipsum

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brow / gist:f52de2d65f9cc710faf8
Created November 21, 2014 06:29
FromJSONObject
# FromJSONObject
FromJSONObject is a protocol adopted by Swift types that can be instantiated
from a dictionary of the sort produced by `NSJSONSerialization` -- and that
produce an informative error when they can't.
```swift
struct Person {
let name: String
let age: Int
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brow / README
Created November 21, 2014 06:30
FromJSONObject
# FromJSONObject
FromJSONObject is a protocol adopted by Swift types that can be instantiated
from a dictionary of the sort produced by `NSJSONSerialization` -- and that
produce an informative error when they can't.
```swift
struct Person {
let name: String
let age: Int
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brow / README.md
Created November 21, 2014 06:30
FromJSONObject

FromJSONObject

FromJSONObject is a protocol adopted by Swift types that can be instantiated from a dictionary of the sort produced by NSJSONSerialization -- and that produce an informative error when they can't.

struct Person {
  let name: String
  let age: Int
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brow / Enqueue.swift
Last active August 29, 2015 14:21
Non-blocking queue in RAC 3
import ReactiveCocoa
public func enqueue<T>(elements: SignalProducer<T, NoError>) -> SignalProducer<T, NoError> {
let (poppers, poppersSink) = Signal<SinkOf<Event<T, NoError>>, NoError>.pipe()
elements
|> zipWith(poppers)
|> start(next: { element, popper in
sendNext(popper, element)
sendCompleted(popper)