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@isaacs
isaacs / node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
Last active June 18, 2024 18:27
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

@paullewis
paullewis / gist:1981455
Created March 5, 2012 22:03
Quicksort in JavaScript
/**
* 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));
@elben
elben / snake-nibbles.bas
Created October 5, 2012 05:36
The first program I saw my in my life. And it changed my life.
'
' Q B a s i c N i b b l e s
'
' Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1990
'
' Nibbles is a game for one or two players. Navigate your snakes
' around the game board trying to eat up numbers while avoiding
' running into walls or other snakes. The more numbers you eat up,
' the more points you gain and the longer your snake becomes.
'
@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active June 5, 2024 22:16
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@ThomasBurleson
ThomasBurleson / DownloadRatioRule.js
Last active October 31, 2018 19:54
Demonstration of refactor of DownloadRatioRules.js > transform deep nesting of promise chains to an easily-maintained, flattened, sequential chain.
if (downloadRatio < 1.0) {
self.debug.log("Download ratio is poor.");
if (current > 0) {
self.debug.log("We are not at the lowest bitrate, so switch down.");
self.manifestExt.getRepresentationFor(current - 1, data).then(
function (representation1) {
self.manifestExt.getBandwidth(representation1).then(
function (oneDownBandwidth) {
self.manifestExt.getRepresentationFor(current, data).then(
function (representation2) {
@alicial
alicial / mock-service-example.js
Last active June 10, 2019 14:26
AngularJS: Setting up a mocked service to use in controller unit tests.
// Mocked Service
angular.module('mock.users', []).
factory('UserService', function($q) {
var userService = {};
userService.get = function() {
return {
id: 8888,
name: "test user"
}
@mikaelbr
mikaelbr / destructuring.js
Last active April 25, 2024 13:21
Complete collection of JavaScript destructuring. Runnable demos and slides about the same topic: http://git.mikaelb.net/presentations/bartjs/destructuring
// === Arrays
var [a, b] = [1, 2];
console.log(a, b);
//=> 1 2
// Use from functions, only select from pattern
var foo = () => [1, 2, 3];
@silvenon
silvenon / generator-webapp-with-compass.diff
Last active September 24, 2015 19:38
Changes needed in order to implement Compass back to Yeoman's generator-webapp.
-sass: {
- files: ['<%= config.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
- tasks: ['sass:server', 'autoprefixer']
-}
+compass: {
+ files: ['<%= config.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
+ tasks: ['compass:server', 'autoprefixer']
+}
...
@beccam
beccam / GettingStarted.java
Created June 27, 2014 19:54
Getting Started with Apache Cassandra and Java
import com.datastax.driver.core.*;
public class GettingStarted {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Cluster cluster;
Session session;