cpursley

PostgreSQL is Enough

• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Just Use Postgres for Everything
• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
• Postgres is eating the database world
• Hacker News discussion

Background and Cron Jobs

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

karpathy

"""
Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
BSD License
"""
import numpy as np

# data I/O
data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file
chars = list(set(data))
data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars)

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

torsten

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# A quick and dirty implementation of an HTTP proxy server in Ruby
# because I did not want to install anything.
# 
# Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Torsten Becker <torsten.becker@gmail.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,

yrevar

{0: 'tench, Tinca tinca',
 1: 'goldfish, Carassius auratus',
 2: 'great white shark, white shark, man-eater, man-eating shark, Carcharodon carcharias',
 3: 'tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri',
 4: 'hammerhead, hammerhead shark',
 5: 'electric ray, crampfish, numbfish, torpedo',
 6: 'stingray',
 7: 'cock',
 8: 'hen',
 9: 'ostrich, Struthio camelus',

erikh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

yetithefoot

{url:'stun:stun01.sipphone.com'},
{url:'stun:stun.ekiga.net'},
{url:'stun:stun.fwdnet.net'},
{url:'stun:stun.ideasip.com'},
{url:'stun:stun.iptel.org'},
{url:'stun:stun.rixtelecom.se'},
{url:'stun:stun.schlund.de'},
{url:'stun:stun.l.google.com:19302'},
{url:'stun:stun1.l.google.com:19302'},
{url:'stun:stun2.l.google.com:19302'},

eevee

"""Perlin noise implementation."""
# Licensed under ISC
from itertools import product
import math
import random


def smoothstep(t):
    """Smooth curve with a zero derivative at 0 and 1, making it useful for
    interpolating.