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imkarthikk / nginx.conf
Created December 14, 2015 12:22 — forked from Stanback/nginx.conf
Example Nginx configuration for adding cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) support to reverse proxied APIs
#
# CORS header support
#
# One way to use this is by placing it into a file called "cors_support"
# under your Nginx configuration directory and placing the following
# statement inside your location block(s):
#
# include cors_support;
#
# A limitation to this method is that Nginx doesn't currently send headers
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imkarthikk / LazyLoad.js
Created December 8, 2015 14:00 — forked from yocontra/LazyLoad.js
lazy loading react components, useful for video/audio/etc
var React = require('react');
var events = require('add-event-listener');
var isVisible = require('../isVisible');
var LazyLoad = React.createClass({
displayName: 'LazyLoad',
propTypes: {
distance: React.PropTypes.number,
component: React.PropTypes.node.isRequired,
children: React.PropTypes.node.isRequired
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imkarthikk / gist:036c48a03e237288957f
Created November 12, 2015 05:56 — forked from saetia/gist:1623487
Clean Install – OS X 10.11 El Capitan

OS X Preferences


most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat
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imkarthikk / install_ffmpeg_ubuntu.sh
Created October 3, 2015 20:43 — forked from xdamman/install_ffmpeg_ubuntu.sh
Install latest ffmpeg on ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04
#!/bin/bash
# Bash script to install latest version of ffmpeg and its dependencies on Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04
# Inspired from https://gist.github.com/faleev/3435377
# Remove any existing packages:
sudo apt-get -y remove ffmpeg x264 libav-tools libvpx-dev libx264-dev
# Get the dependencies (Ubuntu Server or headless users):
sudo apt-get update
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imkarthikk / sidekiq.sh
Last active October 12, 2017 19:43 — forked from ponchik/sidekiq.sh
#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT='cd /web/vcms/; bundle exec sidekiq'
RUNAS=dimon
NAME=vcms-sidekiq
PIDFILE=/web/vcms/tmp/pids/sidekiq.pid
LOGFILE=/web/vcms/log/sidekiq.log
start() {

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

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imkarthikk / nginx.conf
Last active March 11, 2018 07:06 — forked from oroce/nginx.conf
user www-data;
worker_processes 1;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
sendfile on;
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imkarthikk / howto.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:17 — forked from leomelzer/howto.md
  1. You have Ghostscript installed, right? Otherwise sudo apt-get install ghostscript
  2. This is important and installs the headers (iapi.h etc) which are required but don't come with the default Ghostscript package: sudo apt-get install libgs-dev
  3. I also needed sudo apt-get install gs-esp
  4. For me the pre compiled version of ImageMagick never accepted Ghostscript, so let's remove it: sudo apt-get --purge remove imagemagick
  5. Get the source of ImageMagick, untar it, cd ImageMagick-xx
  6. ./configure --with-gslib=yes [and what else you need]
  7. Confirm in the output near the bottom gslib yes yes and not gslib yes no
  8. make
  9. make install
  10. Run convert -list configure | grep DELEGATES => DELEGATES bzlib djvu freetype gs jpeg jng jp2 lcms png tiff x11 xml zlib
sudo -i
cd
apt-get install build-essential checkinstall && apt-get build-dep imagemagick -y
wget http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz
tar xzvf ImageMagick.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick/
./configure --prefix=/opt/imagemagick && make
checkinstall
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imkarthikk / ElasticSearch.sh
Last active January 3, 2018 13:27 — forked from gourneau/ElasticSearch.sh
Shell Script to install Elastic Search on Ubuntu 14.04 Server
### Install Oracle Java 8, this means you agree to their binary license!!
cd ~
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 seen true | sudo debconf-set-selections
sudo aptitude -y install oracle-java8-installer
### Download and Install ElasticSearch