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@bhumphrey
bhumphrey / gist:3764983
Created September 22, 2012 03:10
Cherry-picking from another fork
git checkout <branch>
git fetch <other-fork-alias>
git cherry-pick <commit-hash>
git push <your-fork-alias>
@rafaelfranca
rafaelfranca / deprecation.rb
Last active March 12, 2024 14:33
Examples of `ActiveSupport::Deprecation`
require 'active_support'
class Foo
def foo
"foo"
end
def bar
ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn("bar is deprecated")
@turboladen
turboladen / psql_encoding.sql
Created October 2, 2013 08:46
Script for dealing with creating Postgres databases that complain with: ``` PG::InvalidParameterValue: ERROR: encoding UTF8 does not match locale en_US DETAIL: The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1. ``` ...when trying to create the production DB. Taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13115692/encoding-utf8-does-not-match-…
sudo su postgres
psql
update pg_database set datistemplate=false where datname='template1';
drop database Template1;
create database template1 with owner=postgres encoding='UTF-8'
lc_collate='en_US.utf8' lc_ctype='en_US.utf8' template template0;
update pg_database set datistemplate=true where datname='template1';
@davidbalbert
davidbalbert / gist:6815258
Last active September 17, 2025 12:13
How to install custom SSL certificates on an ASUS RT-N66U running asuswrt-merlin
###########################################
# IMPORTANT NOTE:
#
# As of asuswrt-merlin 380.67 Beta, you
# can now configure SSL certificates from
# the Webui, making these instructions
# unnecessary.
###########################################
@tswaters
tswaters / git-subdirectory-tracking.md
Last active October 6, 2025 12:00
Adding subdirectory of a remote repo to a subdirectory in local repo

This is way more complicated than it should be. The following conditions need to be met :

  1. need to be able to track and merge in upstream changes
  2. don't want remote commit messages in master
  3. only interested in sub-directory of another repo
  4. needs to go in a subdirectory in my repo.

In this particular case, I'm interested in bringing in the 'default' template of jsdoc as a sub-directory in my project so I could potentially make changes to the markup it genereates while also being able to update from upstream if there are changes. Ideally their template should be a separate repo added to jsdoc via a submodule -- this way I could fork it and things would be much easier.... but, it is what it is.

After much struggling with git, subtree and git-subtree, I ended up finding this http://archive.h2ik.co/2011/03/having-fun-with-git-subtree/ -- it basically sets up separate branches from tracking remote, the particular sub-directory, and uses git subtree contrib module to pull it all togther. Following are

@albertstill
albertstill / enigma_machine.rb
Last active February 25, 2021 18:46
Understand how the Enigma machine works with 30 lines of Ruby
Plugboard = Hash[*('A'..'Z').to_a.sample(20)]
Plugboard.merge!(Plugboard.invert)
Plugboard.default_proc = proc { |_, key| key }
def build_a_rotor
Hash[('A'..'Z').zip(('A'..'Z').to_a.shuffle)]
end
ROTOR_1, ROTOR_2, ROTOR_3 = build_a_rotor, build_a_rotor, build_a_rotor
@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

@jbreckmckye
jbreckmckye / gist:4553c47e1b26dbe6130f1d7736f148d9
Last active November 10, 2023 02:07
JSTOR Open Access Book List
Title Subtitle Authors JSTOR Discipline 1
Tracking Rural Change "Community, Policy and Technology in Australia, New Zealand and Europe" Socio