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FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

Since 2008 or 2009 I work on Apple hardware and OS: back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001), and switched to something that Just Works. Six years later, it less and less Just Works, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn't need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I'd need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system. I am finding myself turning away from GUI programs that I used to appreciate, and most of the time I use OSX to just run a terminal, Firefox, and Emacs. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years. Again, this is from a sysadmin/developer ki

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The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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**http://kickass.to/infiniteskills-learning-jquery-mobile-working-files-t7967156.html
**http://kickass.to/lynda-bootstrap-3-advanced-web-development-2013-eng-t8167587.html
**http://kickass.to/lynda-css-advanced-typographic-techniques-t7928210.html
**http://kickass.to/lynda-html5-projects-interactive-charts-2013-eng-t8167670.html
**http://kickass.to/vtc-html5-css3-responsive-web-design-course-t7922533.html
*http://kickass.to/10gen-m101js-mongodb-for-node-js-developers-2013-eng-t8165205.html
*http://kickass.to/cbt-nuggets-amazon-web-services-aws-foundations-t7839734.html

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import Foundation
import XCPlayground

// Let asynchronous code run
XCPSetExecutionShouldContinueIndefinitely()

if let url = NSURL(string: "http://www.google.com/") {

    let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()
    

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LLDB Cheat Sheet

A complete gdb to lldb command map.

Print out

• Print object

(lldb) po responseObject
(lldb) po [responseObject objectForKey@"state"]

• p - Print primitive type

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# Set bash script to exit immediately if any commands fail.
set -e

#Universal Folder
UNIVERSAL_OUTPUTFOLDER=${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-universal

# Build the framework for device (using all needed architectures).
xcodebuild -target ${TARGET_NAME} -configuration ${CONFIGURATION} only_active_arch=no BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}" BUILD_ROOT="${BUILD_ROOT}" -sdk iphoneos

# Build the framework for simulator (using all needed architectures).

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A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

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Index:

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Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

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android.permission.REAL_GET_TASKS
android.permission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM
android.permission.REMOTE_AUDIO_PLAYBACK
android.permission.REGISTER_WINDOW_MANAGER_LISTENERS
android.permission.INTENT_FILTER_VERIFICATION_AGENT
android.permission.BIND_INCALL_SERVICE
android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS
android.permission.CONTROL_KEYGUARD
android.permission.CONFIGURE_WIFI_DISPLAY
android.permission.ACCESS_WIMAX_STATE

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// NSCalendar+Swift.swift
// A set of Swift-idiomatic methods for NSCalendar
//
// (c) 2015 Nate Cook, licensed under the MIT license

extension NSCalendar {
    /// Returns the hour, minute, second, and nanoseconds of a given date.
    func getTimeFromDate(date: NSDate) -> (hour: Int, minute: Int, second: Int, nanosecond: Int) {
        var (hour, minute, second, nanosecond) = (0, 0, 0, 0)
        getHour(&hour, minute: &minute, second: &second, nanosecond: &nanosecond, fromDate: date)