davidmcooper

Create a new bookmark in your browser's book toolbar, but instead of bookmarking a URL, include the following code.  This will create a button which, when-clicked, will add the necessary parameters to include sort-by-date functionality to your Google search.  This button should only be used after you've already searched for something in Google.

javascript:(function(){location.href=location.href+'&tbs=sbd%3A1%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1800%2Ccd_max%3A&tbm=';})();

amandabee

Git is a version control system. Github is a proprietary hosting service that manages central git repositories. A git repository doesn't have to be public, but there are some great free hosts available if you do want to make your work available. Github, obviously, or Gitorious, especially if you're offended by github's ugly gender politics. Github's GUI is much nicer than any generalized Git GUI's I've seen, which is a vote for using Github, but it really doesn't matter.

So here are a few good reasons you should use git to manage teaching materials:

• Greg Wilson explains it pretty well to a Python conference. You have to listen to him talk about a few other things first, but the whole talk is interesting so go ahead.

Any newsroom with an

veltman

var request = require("request"),
    fs = require("fs"),
    xyz = require("xyz-affair"),
    queue = require("queue-async")(10), //max concurrency
    path = require("path"),
    mkdirp = require("mkdirp");

var bounds = [
  [
    -74.00596618652344,

abelsonlive

#// Say you were building a dataset and wanted to automatically 
#// generate variable names by some pattern.
#// For instance, you might want to do this with population counts
#// within 100 census tracts by race
#// IE: 
#
#   tracts <- paste("c", rep(1:100), sep="")
#   race - c("black", "white", "hispanic")
#
#// In this case you would want to generate 300 unique variable names

abelsonlive

# this function takes an input numeric vector and 
# partitions it into a set number of breaks
# it then assigns a color to each break via RColorBrewer

assignColors <- function(var, 
                         n = 9, # number of colors / breaks
                         style = "jenks", # can be changed to other methods in "classIntervals"
                         pal = "RdYlBu", # Palettes from RColorBrewer
                         na_color ='#787878', # Color to give NA's
                         na_omit = FALSE, # Logical, argument above will be irrelevant if TRUE

artero

# Mac OS X Lion introduced a new, iOS-like context menu when you press and hold a key
# that enables you to choose a character from a menu of options. If you are on Lion
# try it by pressing and holding down 'e' in any app that uses the default NSTextField
# for input.
#
# It's a nice feature and continues the blending of Mac OS X and iOS features. However,
# it's a nightmare to deal with in Sublime Text 2 if you're running Vintage (Vim) mode,
# as it means you cannot press and hold h/j/k/l to move through your file. You have
# to repeatedly press the keys to navigate.

abelsonlive

First things first...

• Swap Control and Caps Lock in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys
• Google Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome/
• iTerm2 http://www.iterm2.com/
• Oh my zsh https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/
• XCode (from the mac app store)
• XCode command line tools (run XCode, go to Preferences -> Downloads -> Command Line Tools)
• Homebrew https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation

abelsonlive

import requests
import tweepy
import time
import oauth2
import re
from urllib import quote
 
# THIS IS WHAT YOU CUSTOMIZE #
# terms
LIST = "members-of-congress"

mhkeller

$ pgsql2shp -f <path to output shapefile> -h <hostname> -u <username> -P <password> databasename "<query>"

$ pgsql2shp -f ca_hex_2000_ided.shp -h localhost -u mike mike "SELECT ca_hex_2000_ided.geom, ca_hex_2000_ided.hex_id FROM ca_hex_2000_ided, bounder WHERE ST_Intersects(ca_hex_2000_ided.geom, bounder.geom) "

dannguyen

In progress: Attempting to write a set of command-line steps to process IBM Watson Speech-to-Text data to transcribe an old video about UNIX.

UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories

via this HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789019

The discussion of the spell checker starts at the 5th minute with Brian Kernighan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw&t=5m15s

It continues at the 13th minute with Lorinda Cherry: https://youtu.be/XvDZLjaCJuw?t=13m47s