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patpohler / Big List of Real Estate APIs.md
Last active May 21, 2024 01:43
Evolving list of Real Estate APIs by Category

Big List of Real Estate APIs

Listings / Property Data

####Rets Rabbit http://www.retsrabbit.com

Rets Rabbit removes the nightmare of importing thousands of real estate listings and photos from RETS or ListHub and gives you an easy to use import and Web API server so you can focus on building your listing search powered website or app.

@gtallen1187
gtallen1187 / scar_tissue.md
Created November 1, 2015 23:53
talk given by John Ousterhout about sustaining relationships

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

@patshaughnessy
patshaughnessy / gist:70519495343412504686
Last active April 28, 2024 01:19
How to Debug Postgres using LLDB on a Mac
This note explains how to build Postgres from source and setup to debug it using LLDB on a Mac. I used this technique to research this article:
http://patshaughnessy.net/2014/10/13/following-a-select-statement-through-postgres-internals
1. Shut down existing postgres if necessary - you don’t want to mess up your existing DB or work :)
$ ps aux | grep postgres
pat 456 0.0 0.0 2503812 828 ?? Ss Sun10AM 0:11.59 postgres: stats collector process
pat 455 0.0 0.0 2649692 2536 ?? Ss Sun10AM 0:05.00 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
pat 454 0.0 0.0 2640476 304 ?? Ss Sun10AM 0:00.74 postgres: wal writer process
pat 453 0.0 0.0 2640476 336 ?? Ss Sun10AM 0:00.76 postgres: writer process
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active May 24, 2024 07:56
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
# install and select
sudo port install postgresql93-server
sudo port select --set postgresql postgresql93
# load at startup
sudo port load postgresql93-server
# create the default database
sudo mkdir -p /opt/local/var/db/postgresql93/defaultdb
sudo chown postgres:postgres /opt/local/var/db/postgresql93/defaultdb
@bokmann
bokmann / JRuby Awesome Performance
Last active August 31, 2023 07:32
brief summary of massive performance improvements with JRuby
# Thee will be more information here when I share the entire problem space I'm working on, but
# in short, this is preview material for my second talk in a series called "What Computer Scientists Know".
# The first talk is on recursion, and goes through several examples., leading up to a problem based
# on a simple puzzle that initial estimates based on performance of a previous puzzle would take years
# to solve on modern computers with the techniques shown in Ruby. That sets the stage for improving the
# performance of that problem with threading, concurrency, and related tuning.
#
# The second talk is on threading and concurrency, touching on algorithmic performance as well.
# Using some knowledge of the problem (board symmetry, illegal moves, etc), we reduce the problem space
# to about .5% of what we initially thought it was. Still, the initial single threaded solution took more
@1wErt3r
1wErt3r / SMBDIS.ASM
Created November 9, 2012 22:27
A Comprehensive Super Mario Bros. Disassembly
;SMBDIS.ASM - A COMPREHENSIVE SUPER MARIO BROS. DISASSEMBLY
;by doppelganger (doppelheathen@gmail.com)
;This file is provided for your own use as-is. It will require the character rom data
;and an iNES file header to get it to work.
;There are so many people I have to thank for this, that taking all the credit for
;myself would be an unforgivable act of arrogance. Without their help this would
;probably not be possible. So I thank all the peeps in the nesdev scene whose insight into
;the 6502 and the NES helped me learn how it works (you guys know who you are, there's no
@nikcub
nikcub / README.md
Created October 4, 2012 13:06
Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007
@jedp
jedp / gist:3005816
Created June 27, 2012 18:18
postMessage() security review checklist

Security-Reviewing Uses of postMessage()

The postMessage() API is an HTML5 extension that permits string message-passing between frames that don't share the same origin. It is available in all modern browsers. It is not supported in IE6 and IE7.

postMessage is generally considered very secure as long as the programmer is careful to check the origin and source of an arriving