RuolinZheng08

def is_valid_state(state):
    # check if it is a valid solution
    return True

def get_candidates(state):
    return []

def search(state, solutions):
    if is_valid_state(state):
        solutions.append(state.copy())

anvaka

npm rank

This gist is updated daily via cron job and lists stats for npm packages:

1. Top 1,000 most depended-upon packages
2. Top 1,000 packages with largest number of dependencies
3. Top 1,000 packages with highest PageRank score

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

staltz

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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tedmiston

/*
In the node.js intro tutorial (http://nodejs.org/), they show a basic tcp 
server, but for some reason omit a client connecting to it.  I added an 
example at the bottom.

Save the following server in example.js:
*/

var net = require('net');

paullewis

/**
 * An implementation for Quicksort. Doesn't
 * perform as well as the native Array.sort
 * and also runs the risk of a stack overflow
 *
 * Tests with:
 *
 * var array = [];
 * for(var i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
 *   array.push(Math.round(Math.random() * 100));