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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

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(defvar *total-points* nil)
(defvar *hist-array* nil)

(defun record-value (n)
  (if (or (> n 10)
          (< n 0))
    (break "The supplied argument is not between 0 and 10"))
  (setf (aref *hist-array* n) (+ 1 (aref *hist-array* n)))
  (setf *total-points* (+ 1 *total-points*)))

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(generate-api-documentation
  :base "http://api.test.com"
  :title "API Documentaition for TEST"
  :author "fuzzyalej"
  (with-endpoint "/book"
    :method "GET"
    :description "This will fetch a book from the database"
    (parameters
      (id
        :type "String"

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I have a lot of people at Hacker Hours ask about where to look for jobs - here are some places I recommend.

Boards

• 37Signals (mostly Rails and front-end)
• Authentic Jobs
• Craigslist (mostly freelance)
• Digital DUMBO (NYC-specific)
• Github
• Indeed (search engine that scrapes other sites)

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Say you have a repo structured by features, issues, etc:

fuzzyalej@MightyPirate:~/code/supersecretproject (master)$ git branch -a
  develop
  issue/399
* master
  remotes/backup/master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
 remotes/origin/feature/234

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The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

So you're curious in learning this new thing called (Functional) Reactive Programming (FRP).

Learning it is hard, even harder by the lack of good material. When I started, I tried looking for tutorials. I found only a handful of practical guides, but they just scratched the surface and never tackled the challenge of building the whole architecture around it. Library documentations often don't help when you're trying to understand some function. I mean, honestly, look at this:

Rx.Observable.prototype.flatMapLatest(selector, [thisArg])

Projects each element of an observable sequence into a new sequence of observable sequences by incorporating the element's index and then transforms an observable sequence of observable sequences into an observable sequence producing values only from the most recent observable sequence.

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// utils

var slice = Array.prototype.slice;
var concat = Array.prototype.concat;
var flatten = function(l) { return concat.apply([], l); };

// really stupid DSL

function nodeOrTextNode(n) {
  if (typeof(n) === "object")

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Contract Killer

The popular open-source contract for web designers and developers by Stuff & Nonsense

• Originally published: 23/12/2008
• Revised date: 15/12/2013
• Original post

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Essential JavaScript Links

A curated list by Eric Elliott and friends. Suggest links in the gist comments.

Help us turn this into a proper website!

This is a very exclusive collection of only must-have JavaScript links. I'm only listing my favorite links. Nothing else makes the cut. Feel free to suggest links if you think they're good enough to make this list. The really curious should feel free to browse the comments to find other links. I can't guarantee the quality of links in the comments.

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If you are a heavy user of thinking sphinx you might have encounter some tricky stuff that could be easily solved if you were able to actually see the indexed data.

Well, you can easily solve that now: mysql --host 127.0.0.1 --port 9306

With that, you have console access to the index database, that you can query with SphinxQL (http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#sphinxql-reference)

note: if you are using rails, the ID of the model is not id but sphinx_internal_id :)