dnagir

# RSpec 2.0 syntax Cheet Sheet by http://ApproachE.com

# defining spec within a module will automatically pick Player::MovieList as a 'subject' (see below)
module Player
	describe MovieList, "with optional description" do
		  
	  it "is pending example, so that you can write ones quickly"
	  
	  it "is already working example that we want to suspend from failing temporarily" do
		pending("working on another feature that temporarily breaks this one")

benedikt

# encoding: UTF-8

Capistrano::Configuration.instance(:must_exist).load do
  namespace :rails do
    desc "Open the rails console on one of the remote servers"
    task :console, :roles => :app do
      hostname = find_servers_for_task(current_task).first
      exec "ssh -l #{user} #{hostname} -t 'source ~/.profile && #{current_path}/script/rails c #{rails_env}'"
    end
  end

jimbojsb

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

pztrick

# Title: Fancyimage tag for Jekyll
# Authors: Devin Weaver (photos_tag.rb), Brian M. Clapper (img_popup.rb), Patrick Paul (this gist)
# Description: Takes full size image, automagically creates thumbnail at specified size, +fancybox
#
# Adapted from:
#   http://tritarget.org/blog/2012/05/07/integrating-photos-into-octopress-using-fancybox-and-plugin/
#   (photos_tag.rb) https://gist.github.com/2631877
#   (img_popup.rb) https://github.com/bmc/octopress-plugins/
#
# Syntax {% photo filename [tumbnail] [title] %}

harperreed

Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—The Challenge of the Future

Purpose and Preamble

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

zacstewart

import os
import numpy
from pandas import DataFrame
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
from sklearn.naive_bayes import MultinomialNB
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
from sklearn.cross_validation import KFold
from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix, f1_score

NEWLINE = '\n'

willurd

This is a small collection of scripts showing how to use require.js. It's only one of several ways of setting up a require.js project, but it's enough to get started.

At its core, require.js is about three things:

1. Dependency management
2. Modularity
3. Dynamic script loading

The following files show how these are achieved.

maxim

In Rails 3

NOTE: This post now lives (and kept up to date) on my blog: http://hakunin.com/rails3-load-paths

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

If you add a dir under app/something/

vaguity

Hacks/Hackers NYC: Encryption and Operational Security for Journalists (2013-09-16)

Jennifer Valentino, Wall Street Journal (@jenvalentino)

These notes come straight from Jennifer's presentation; slides at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2HGtAJEbG8PdzVPdHcwekI2V2M/edit

Background

• NSA covers 75% of internet traffic; not all is collected or sifted
• Big issues with suveillance are not the NSA but leak investigations, subpoenas, accidental disclosure and chilling effects on sources