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#! /bin/sh
# A Git maintenance script.

set -e
root=`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`

echo "Performing maintenance tasks on Git repository in ${root}..."
git fetch
git remote prune origin
git repack -a -d --depth=250 --window=250

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Slides: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/community/td2013/program/upload/TechnicalDebt-ICSE.pdf

Business vs Technical viewpoints

• Business staff tends to be optimistic about debt
• Technical staff tends to be pessimistic about debt (religious and aesthetic)
• These attitudes are often not conscious
• Debt is a tool, neither inherently good nor bad

Short- vs Long-term debt

• Short: violating coding standards, "we'll write these unit tests after we ship"

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scat

A stream consumption tool.

Status: Vaporware

Why?

In 2015, stream-processing is the it-girl of software architecture. This sub-field is driven forward by a growing number of

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# giftube – Generates an animated gif from a YouTube url.
#
# Usage:
#
#   giftube [youtube url] [minute:second] [duration]
#
#   ex.
#

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var Log = require('log'),
    log = new Log('info'),
    DropboxClient = require('dropbox').DropboxClient,
    dropbox = new DropboxClient("api_key", "api_secret",
                                "access_token", "access_token_secret");
/**
 * Returns a function that checks the mtime of all files within dir
 * and deletes any that are older than ttl.
 */
function checkForAndRmExpiredItems(dir, ttl) {

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Programming, when stripped of all the circumstantial irrelevancies
is nothing more and nothing less than "very effective thinking
so as to avoid unmastered complexity, to very vigorous
separation of your many different concerns".
-- Edsger Dijkstra

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// Java.
int sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
  sum += arr[i];
}
System.out.println(sum);

// Scala (ignoring arr.sum).
println(arr reduceLeft { _ + _ })

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[alias]
        crunk = checkout -b regrettable-late-night-coding-session

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;; Originally from stevey, adapted to support moving to a new directory.
;; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/384284/can-i-rename-an-open-file-in-emacs
(defun rename-file-and-buffer (new-name)
  "Renames both current buffer and file it's visiting to NEW-NAME."
  (interactive
   (progn
     (if (not (buffer-file-name))
         (error "Buffer '%s' is not visiting a file!" (buffer-name)))
     (list (read-file-name (format "Rename %s to: " (file-name-nondirectory
                                                     (buffer-file-name)))))))