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@dvgica
dvgica / am_pm_time_select.rb
Created November 4, 2011 18:41
Initializer to add am/pm support to time_select helpers in Rails 3 (3.1 has an option, use it!)
# modified from Bruno Miranda's original found here: http://brunomiranda.com/past/2007/6/2/displaying_12_hour_style_time_select/
# usage: <%= form.time_select :the_time, { :twelve_hour => true } %>
module ActionView
module Helpers
class DateTimeSelector
def select_hour_with_twelve_hour_time
datetime = @datetime
options = @options
@coreyhaines
coreyhaines / .rspec
Last active April 11, 2024 00:19
Active Record Spec Helper - Loading just active record
--colour
-I app
@moklett
moklett / openconnect.md
Created July 24, 2012 15:21
OpenConnect VPN on Mac OS X

Unfortunately, the Cisco AnyConnect client for Mac conflicts with Pow. And by "conflicts", I mean it causes a grey-screen-of-death kernel panic anytime you connect to the VPN and Pow is installed.

As an alternative, there is OpenConnect, a command-line client for Cisco's AnyConnect SSL VPN.

Here's how to get it set up on Mac OS X:

  1. OpenConnect can be installed via homebrew:

     brew update
    

brew install openconnect

@rgreenjr
rgreenjr / postgres_queries_and_commands.sql
Last active July 22, 2024 23:19
Useful PostgreSQL Queries and Commands
-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
ORDER BY query_start desc;
-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
@steveklabnik
steveklabnik / some_controller.rb
Created October 14, 2012 01:07
Some thoughts on real ViewModels for Draper 2.0
class SomeController < AC::Base
def show
foo = Foo.first
bar = Bar.first
show_model = ShowViewModel.new(foo, bar)
render show_model
end
end
@Sjors
Sjors / bitcoin-pay.rb
Last active April 9, 2024 16:50
This script demonstrates how a bitcoin transaction is created and signed. Just pass in your own address and private key and it will prepare a transaction for you. You can then copy & paste that transaction into a webservice like Blockchain to send it. I wrote this mostly to understand better how it works. I sometimes had to "cheat" and look at t…
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'open-uri'
require 'JSON'
require 'digest/sha2'
require 'pry'
require 'bigdecimal'
require 'bitcoin' # Because I need to cheat every now and then
# Usage:
# gem install pry json ffi ruby-bitcoin

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

/**
* Ethereum Account Scanner
*
* To run this, you need your own geth node, accepting RPC
* connections on a port you can access.
*
* Install pre-requisites:
* sudo npm install -g web3
*
* Usage:
@bretton
bretton / improved-lnd-bitcoind-install.md
Last active January 25, 2022 14:07
updated & improved guide to installing LND, Bitcoind, on Ubuntu 16.04 Server on testnet

2018-03-18: Updating of this guide is taking a backseat to the mainnet version at

Intro

This guide is specific to getting LND and bitcoind running on ubuntu 16.04 LTS for testnet.

It does not address mainnet, or using btcd, or neutrino.

Original installation guide:

@MuhsinFatih
MuhsinFatih / fix-macos-python.md
Last active July 22, 2024 20:45
How to recover from messed up python installation on mac, and never have to mess with apple's shitty python confusion factory

I am assuming you are here because like me, you installed a bazillion different python interpreters on mac and the whole thing is a spagetti. Today, I finally fixed my python installation. Whatever I install for python2 or python3 using pip JUST.WORKS.. My god! finally.

What the hell?

Here is what I had messed up, which you also probably did:

  • I had too many different python interpreters
  • Too many different symlinks which I lost track of
  • almost no package I installed with pip worked without a headache
  • any attempt to fix using online resources made it worse.