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bitemyapp / gist:8739525
Last active May 7, 2021 23:22
Learning Haskell
@andyfriesen
andyfriesen / TestableIO.hs
Last active August 10, 2021 18:25
Tiny example showing how to force your Haskell code to be 100% deterministic under unit tests
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
module Main where
import Control.Applicative ((<$>))
import Control.Monad.State.Lazy as S
class Monad m => World m where
writeLine :: String -> m ()
instance World IO where
@romainl
romainl / _rnb.md
Last active August 12, 2021 21:56
RNB, a Vim colorscheme template
@Jarred-Sumner
Jarred-Sumner / comcast.js
Last active September 7, 2022 01:30
Comcast injects this into webpages to show copyright notices
// Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Proprietary. Copyright 2014.
// Intended use is to display browser notifications for critical and time sensitive events.
var _ComcastAlert = (function(){
return {
SYS_URL: '/e8f6b078-0f35-11de-85c5-efc5ef23aa1f/aupm/notify.do'
, dragObj: {zIndex: 999999}
, browser: null
, comcastCheck: 1
, comcastTimer: null
, xmlhttp: null
@garybernhardt
garybernhardt / gist:44b7063110fc423edb4d
Created July 17, 2015 23:33

Things that programmers don't know but should

(A book that I might eventually write!)

Gary Bernhardt

I imagine each of these chapters being about 2,000 words, making the whole book about the size of a small novel. For comparison, articles in large papers like the New York Times average about 1,200 words. Each topic gets whatever level of detail I can fit into that space. For simple topics, that's a lot of space: I can probably walk through a very basic, but working, implementation of the IP protocol.

@Tho85
Tho85 / Encbox.md
Last active February 4, 2023 18:30

Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox-esque sync folder

Prerequisites:

  • One or more clients running a UNIX-like OS. Examples are given for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, although all software components are available for other platforms as well (e.g. OS X). YMMV
  • A cheap Ubuntu 12.04 VPS with storage. I recommend Backupsy, they offer 250GB storage for $5/month. Ask Google for coupon codes.

Software components used:

  • Unison for file synchronization
  • EncFS for folder encryption
@sinisterchipmunk
sinisterchipmunk / LICENSE
Last active September 8, 2023 17:57
tar, gzip, and untar files using ruby in memory without tempfiles
Copyright (C) 2011 by Colin MacKenzie IV
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
@fcingolani
fcingolani / index.html
Created August 9, 2012 02:16
How to render a full PDF using Mozilla's pdf.js
<html>
<body>
<!-- really dirty! this is just a test drive ;) -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://raw.github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/gh-pages/build/pdf.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function renderPDF(url, canvasContainer, options) {
var options = options || { scale: 1 };
@jashkenas
jashkenas / semantic-pedantic.md
Last active November 29, 2023 14:49
Why Semantic Versioning Isn't

Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active January 13, 2024 17:27
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

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Models Examples
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