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• The secret structure of great talks http://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks.html Really enlightening TED video. See the structure underlying both 'I Have a Dream' and the 2007 iPhone launch talk.

• http://www.walkingpaper.org/695

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>> IO.for_fd(3)
ArgumentError: The given fd is not accessible because RubyVM reserves it
        from (irb):23:in `for_fd'
        from (irb):23
        from /Users/jessestorimer/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p0-perf/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
>> IO.for_fd(4)
ArgumentError: The given fd is not accessible because RubyVM reserves it
        from (irb):24:in `for_fd'
        from (irb):24
        from /Users/jessestorimer/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p0-perf/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'

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commit bcdaf11bfeac9b6015d981a95cd375c61c3a2b11
Author: Jesse Storimer <jstorimer@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 1 05:50:53 2012 -0800

diff --git a/learning_basic_programming.md b/learning_basic_programming.md
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--- a/learning_basic_programming.md
+++ b/learning_basic_programming.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Start off by giving [Try Ruby](http://tryruby.org/ an in-browser programming tut
 

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Tech-ing Up: Learning basic programming

Coming from http://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/m1494/looking_for_a_developer_advocate_for_shopify/ or elsewhere? Awesome.

This is a guide for learning the bare minimum needed for effectively working as a junior programmer or developer advocate at most software companies.

If you haven’t ever programmed before, don’t sweat it. Those who would be good fits at this job are naturally attuned to this stuff and their innate curiosity makes it a cakewalk. If you’re finding that it’s a frustrating experience the entire way through, then you should consider doing something else for a little while before you come back to give it another shot.

A first stab at programming

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

pattern = ARGV.shift
data = ARGF.read

data.each_line do |line|
  exit if line.match(pattern)
end

abort "No matches found"

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# A simply utility to show character counts for each line of input and
# highlight lines longer than 80 characters.
#
# Written as an example for http://jstorimer.com/2011/12/12/writing-ruby-scripts-that-respect-pipelines.html
#
# Examples:
#
# $ hilong Gemfile

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#!/bin/sh -e
# Usage: license
# Prints an MIT license appropriate for totin' around.
#
# $ license > COPYING
#!/bin/sh
echo "Copyright (c) `date +%Y` Jesse Storimer

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the

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#!/usr/bin/env coffee

# A useful little script to execute a shell command when another
# command exits successfully. Kind of like using && except the 
# first command will keep executing until it returns successfully.
#
# My use case was starting up a local rails server. It takes ~15
# seconds and I have no indication of when it's ready besides manually
# polling lsof. So with this script I just do the following to start
# profiling my app when it's online.

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require 'rake/testtask'

Rake::TestTask.new('tester') do |t|
  t.test_files = 'test/*.rb'
end

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Put me in ~/bin/branch_date

ref = ARGV[0]

date = `git show --format='%at' #{ref} | head -1`.strip
puts "#{date}:#{ref}"