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Created September 7, 2018 18:57 — forked from fogleman/words.md
Mnemonic Encoding Word List

Mnemonic Encoding Word List

http://web.archive.org/web/20090918202746/http://tothink.com/mnemonic/wordlist.html

  • The wordlist contains 1626 words.
  • All words are between 4 and 7 letters long.
  • No word in the list is a prefix of another word (e.g. visit, visitor).
  • Five letter prefixes of words are sufficient to be unique.
  • The words should be usable by people all over the world. The list is far from perfect in that respect. It is heavily biased towards western culture and English in particular. The international vocabulary is simply not big enough. One can argue that even words like "hotel" or "radio" are not truly international. You will find many English words in the list but I have tried to limit them to words that are part of a beginner's vocabulary or words that have close relatives in other european languages. In some cases a word has a different meaning in another language or is pronounced very differently but for the purpose of the encoding it is still ok - I assume that when the encoding is
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mm53bar / readme.txt
Last active August 20, 2018 02:56
Engineering Values
from https://r.32k.io/eng-vals
don’t be clever
code is a liability
ask, learn, and teach
design and architecture matter
first make it correct then make it fast
only make it fast if you know it matters
it’s not done until customers are getting value
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mm53bar / README.md
Last active August 17, 2021 21:58
Inspiration

Snippets & Quotes that influence me as I browse around. None of these are fully formed thoughts or prescriptions - just inspiration.

Values

  • "Real company values are the behaviours and skills that we particularly value in fellow employees" link
  • Take the high road
  • Invest in ourselves
  • Frugality - constraints breed better decisions

Snippets

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mm53bar / hex.md
Created April 27, 2016 19:50 — forked from krisleech/hex.md
Hexagonal Rails

Entity

class Bid < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :buyer, class_name: Customer
  
  def self.from_form(form)
    new(form.attributes)
  end
end
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mm53bar / README.markdown
Last active November 6, 2015 20:22
Magic 8-ball

Magic 8-Ball

print "Ask the Magic 8-Ball your question: "
gets
puts Answers.find
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mm53bar / README.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:10
Roll your own managed exposure
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mm53bar / bread-pizza.markdown
Last active December 20, 2015 15:09
Camping menu

Bread Pizza

  • 2 Pieces of White Bread with Butter
  • 6-9 Pepperoni Slices
  • 1 tsp. Onions (partially cooked)
  • 1 tsp. Mushrooms (canned)
  • 2 Tbsp. Pizza Sauce
  • 2 Slices Mozzarella Cheese

Directions:

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mm53bar / johnn_nuggets.coffee
Created July 11, 2013 20:11
Hubot script for What Would Johnn Four Say?
# Description:
# Hubot, tell me what Johnn Four would say about a topic.
#
# Dependencies:
# None
#
# Configuration:
# None
#
# Commands:
require 'octokit'
require 'csv'
require 'date'
# Github credentials to access your private project
USERNAME="USER_NAME"
PASSWORD="SEKRIT"
# Project you want to export issues from
USER="REPO_OWNER"
PROJECT="REPO_NAME"