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@pamelafox
pamelafox / send.js
Created November 7, 2011 21:21
CORS XHR (jQuery/Flask)
function sendData(url, data, onSuccess, onError) {
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: 'POST',
data: data,
dataType: 'json',
xhrFields: {
withCredentials: true
},
@steveklabnik
steveklabnik / reading.md
Last active April 11, 2016 11:26
intro to continental philosophy reading list (french post-structuralism, etc)
@arvearve
arvearve / gist:4158578
Created November 28, 2012 02:01
Mathematics: What do grad students in math do all day?

Mathematics: What do grad students in math do all day?

by Yasha Berchenko-Kogan

A lot of math grad school is reading books and papers and trying to understand what's going on. The difficulty is that reading math is not like reading a mystery thriller, and it's not even like reading a history book or a New York Times article.

The main issue is that, by the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don't really exist yet. Communicating these ideas is a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.

What can you say?

@jcoglan
jcoglan / tweets.js
Last active December 15, 2015 16:48
// This is in response to https://gist.github.com/Peeja/5284697.
// Peeja wanted to know how to convert some callback-based code to functional
// style using promises.
var Promise = require('rsvp').Promise;
var ids = [1,2,3,4,5,6];
// If this were synchronous, we'd simply write:
@rogerallen
rogerallen / leip_polyrhythm.clj
Created April 30, 2013 15:57
Fun with Leipzig/Overtone & Polyrhythms
(ns explore-overtone.leip-polyrhythm
(:require [overtone.live :as o]
[leipzig.live :as ll]
[leipzig.melody :as lm]))
(def snare (o/sample (o/freesound-path 26903)))
(def kick (o/sample (o/freesound-path 2086)))
(def close-hihat (o/sample (o/freesound-path 802)))
(def open-hihat (o/sample (o/freesound-path 26657)))
(def clap (o/sample (o/freesound-path 48310)))
(Chapters marked with * are already written. This gets reorganized constantly
and 10 or so written chapters that I'm on the fence about aren't listed.)
Programmer Epistemology
* Dispersed Cost vs. Reduced Cost
* Verificationist Fallacy
* Mistake Metastasis
The Overton Window
Epicycles All The Way Down
The Hyperspace Gates Were Just There
@kyle-eshares
kyle-eshares / models.py
Created October 15, 2016 18:01
Strict ForeignKeys
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.db import models
from django.db.models.fields.related_descriptors import ForwardManyToOneDescriptor # noqa
class RelationNotLoaded(Exception):
pass