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.mouse, #preview{
position: absolute;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 22px;
min-width: 15px;
z-index: 100;
}
.mouse{
background-image: url('../images/cursor.png');
@rkumar
rkumar / itunes.sh
Created August 1, 2010 09:23
control iTunes from command line
#!/bin/bash
#
####################################
# iTunes Command Line Control v1.0
# written by David Schlosnagle
# created 2001.11.08
# edit 2010.06.01 rahul kumar
####################################
showHelp () {
@isaacs
isaacs / node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
Last active July 21, 2024 01:20
Use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo. Discussed in more detail at http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/ Note: npm >=0.3 is *safer* when using sudo.
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
@chitchcock
chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

@monde
monde / fluid.display.ascii.js
Created February 8, 2012 20:21
codes to Nick Kwiatek's ascii js animation page (http://nkwiatek.com/)
// this is in the process of being rewritten and optimized
/**
* Copyright (c) 2011 Nick Kwiatek <http://nkwiatek.com>
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
* obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
* files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
* restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
* copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
@remy
remy / gist:2484402
Created April 24, 2012 22:45
jquery.marquee.js
/**
* author Remy Sharp
* url http://remysharp.com/tag/marquee
*/
(function ($) {
$.fn.marquee = function (klass) {
var newMarquee = [],
last = this.length;
@hs0ucy
hs0ucy / media-queries-samples.css
Created September 21, 2012 17:48
Media Queries for Standard Devices
/*
* From css-tricks.com
* http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/media-queries-for-standard-devices/
*/
/* Smartphones (portrait and landscape) ----------- */
@media only screen
and (min-device-width : 320px)
and (max-device-width : 480px) {
/* Styles */
@asanoboy
asanoboy / makewav.js
Created October 30, 2012 11:39
How to make a WAV file in Javascript.
var Wav = function(opt_params){
/**
* @private
*/
this._sampleRate = opt_params && opt_params.sampleRate ? opt_params.sampleRate : 44100;
/**
* @private
*/
@mbostock
mbostock / .block
Last active May 8, 2023 14:30 — forked from mbostock/.block
Treemap
border: no
height: 600
license: gpl-3.0
redirect: https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/d3-treemap
@adharris
adharris / postgres_array.go
Created November 28, 2012 19:52
PostgreSQL demo of Array types using Golang
package main
import (
"database/sql"
"errors"
"fmt"
_ "github.com/bmizerany/pq"
"os"
"regexp"
"strings"