kentbrew

The Problem

Standard practices say no non-root process gets to talk to the Internet on a port less than 1024. How, then, could I get Node talking on port 80 on EC2? (I wanted it to go as fast as possible and use the smallest possible share of my teeny tiny little micro-instance's resources, so proxying through nginx or Apache seemed suboptimal.)

The temptingly easy but ultimately wrong solution:

Alter the port the script talks to from 8000 to 80:

}).listen(80);

matthewmccullough

for t in `git tag`
do
    git push origin :$t
    git tag -d $t
done

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

larsar

# The VirtualBox documentation[1] for how to install guest additions 
# for Linux on a virtual host is somewhat messy. So here is what 
# I did to make it work.

# Install the packages required
yum update
yum install gcc kernel-devel make

reboot

digitalresistor

Collection of Gource Helper Scripts

This collection of helper scripts are used to generate .mp4 files containing the output from [gource][1], a visualisation tool that generates pretty output from the git log output.

Requirements

1. gource
2. ffmpeg with x264 support

OnesimusUnbound

[T]he difference between a bad programmer and a 
good one is whether he considers his code or his 
data structures more important. Bad programmers 
worry about the code. Good programmers worry about 
data structures and their relationships. 
-- Linus Torvalds
~~~
Clarity and brevity sometimes are at odds. 
When they are, I choose clarity. 
-- Jacob Kaplan-Moss

earthgecko

#!/bin/bash
# bash generate random alphanumeric string
#

# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (upper and lowercase) and 
NEW_UUID=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1)

# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (lowercase only)
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1

marianposaceanu

Linux fun-o-matic

How to have some fun using the terminal.

1. Install cowsay [0] via : sudo apt-get install cowsay
2. Install fortune [1] via : sudo apt-get install fortune
3. Make sure you have Ruby installed via : ruby -v
4. Install the lolcat [2] via : gem gem install lolcat
5. Profit!

rxaviers

People

:bowtie:	😄 :smile:	😆 :laughing:
😊 :blush:	😃 :smiley:	☺️ :relaxed:
😏 :smirk:	😍 :heart_eyes:	😘 :kissing_heart:
😚 :kissing_closed_eyes:	😳 :flushed:	😌 :relieved:
😆 :satisfied:	😁 :grin:	😉 :wink:
😜 :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:	😝 :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:	😀 :grinning:
😗 :kissing:	😙 :kissing_smiling_eyes:	😛 :stuck_out_tongue:

seyhunak

unless Rails.env.production?
  connection = ActiveRecord::Base.connection
  connection.tables.each do |table|
    connection.execute("TRUNCATE #{table}") unless table == "schema_migrations"
  end

  sql = File.read('db/import.sql')
  statements = sql.split(/;$/)
  statements.pop