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FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

@zmwangx
zmwangx / No longer able to make public gists secret.md
Last active April 11, 2024 22:22
No longer able to make public gists private — message to GitHub

We've been able to toggle visibility of gists since 2014 (https://github.com/blog/1837-change-the-visibility-of-your-gists), but I just noticed that I can no longer make public gists private. That is, when I edit private gists I still see the "Make Public" button, but not the other way round — there's only a "Delete" button when I edit public gists; the "Make Secret" which should be next to it (as shown in the screencast in the linked blog post) is nowhere to be found. I made a screenshot and a screencast demonstrating the issue, both of which are attached. Could you please confirm this issue? Was this an intentional change, and why? Thank you for your attention.

gist-unable-to-make-secret

![gist-unable-to-make-secret](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4149852/16898407/c76db210-4c0b-11e6-9108-0450f1edebb4.gif)
@evanwill
evanwill / gitBash_windows.md
Last active May 29, 2024 11:03
how to add more utilities to git bash for windows, wget, make

How to add more to Git Bash on Windows

Git for Windows comes bundled with the "Git Bash" terminal which is incredibly handy for unix-like commands on a windows machine. It is missing a few standard linux utilities, but it is easy to add ones that have a windows binary available.

The basic idea is that C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\ is your / directory according to Git Bash (note: depending on how you installed it, the directory might be different. from the start menu, right click on the Git Bash icon and open file location. It might be something like C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Git, the mingw64 in this directory is your root. Find it by using pwd -W). If you go to that directory, you will find the typical linux root folder structure (bin, etc, lib and so on).

If you are missing a utility, such as wget, track down a binary for windows and copy the files to the corresponding directories. Sometimes the windows binary have funny prefixes, so

@tianchaijz
tianchaijz / github-api.py
Last active August 8, 2022 04:17
A python script to clone a specified github user's repos, gists.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import os
import re
import time
import json
import logging
import requests
@spaze
spaze / opera-vpn.md
Last active April 20, 2024 02:14
Opera VPN behind the curtains is just a proxy, here's how it works

2023 update

ℹ️ Please note this research is from 2016 when Opera has first added their browser "VPN", even before the "Chinese deal" was closed. They have since introduced some real VPN apps but this below is not about them.

🕵️ Some folks also like to use this article to show a proof that the Opera browser is a spyware or that Opera sells all your data to 3rd parties or something like that. This article here doesn't say anything like that.


When setting up (that's immediately when user enables it in settings) Opera VPN sends few API requests to https://api.surfeasy.com to obtain credentials and proxy IPs, see below, also see The Oprah Proxy.

The browser then talks to a proxy de0.opera-proxy.net (when VPN location is set to Germany), it's IP address can only be resolved from within Opera when VPN is on, it's 185.108.219.42 (or similar, see below). It's an HTTP/S proxy which requires auth.

@subfuzion
subfuzion / ubuntu-setup-checklist.md
Last active May 4, 2023 13:03
Ubuntu set up checklist
@krrr
krrr / brightness.ahk
Last active April 26, 2024 15:51
Windows screen brightness fine tune (autohotkey)
#,::
AdjustScreenBrightness(-3)
Return
#.::
AdjustScreenBrightness(3)
Return
AdjustScreenBrightness(step) {
service := "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\WMI"
@parmentf
parmentf / GitCommitEmoji.md
Last active June 1, 2024 05:39
Git Commit message Emoji
@gtallen1187
gtallen1187 / slope_vs_starting.md
Created November 2, 2015 00:02
A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept

"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept"

01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140

Here's today's thought for the weekend. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept.

[Laughter]

git config --global https.proxy http://127.0.0.1:1080
git config --global https.proxy https://127.0.0.1:1080
git config --global --unset http.proxy
git config --global --unset https.proxy
npm config delete proxy