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# Luke's config for the Zoomer Shell
# Enable colors and change prompt:
autoload -U colors && colors
PS1="%B%{$fg[red]%}[%{$fg[yellow]%}%n%{$fg[green]%}@%{$fg[blue]%}%M %{$fg[magenta]%}%~%{$fg[red]%}]%{$reset_color%}$%b "
# History in cache directory:
HISTSIZE=10000
SAVEHIST=10000
HISTFILE=~/.cache/zsh/history
@sleepyfox
sleepyfox / 2019-07-25-users-hate-change.md
Last active December 10, 2023 18:20
'Users hate change'

'Users hate change'

This week NN Group released a video by Jakob Nielsen in which he attempts to help designers deal with the problem of customers being resistant to their new site/product redesign. The argument goes thusly:

  1. Humans naturally resist change
  2. Your change is for the better
  3. Customers should just get used to it and stop complaining

There's slightly more to it than that, he caveats his argument with requiring you to have of course followed their best practices on product design, and allows for a period of customers being able to elect to continue to use the old site, although he says this is obviously only a temporary solution as you don't want to support both.

@dylanmckay
dylanmckay / facebook-contact-info-summary.rb
Last active March 12, 2024 22:46
A Ruby script for collecting phone record statistics from a Facebook user data dump
#! /usr/bin/env ruby
# NOTE: Requires Ruby 2.1 or greater.
# This script can be used to parse and dump the information from
# the 'html/contact_info.htm' file in a Facebook user data ZIP download.
#
# It prints all cell phone call + SMS message + MMS records, plus a summary of each.
#
# It also dumps all of the records into CSV files inside a 'CSV' folder, that is created
@okapies
okapies / t470s.md
Last active October 28, 2021 16:45
Ubuntu 16.04 on ThinkPad T470s

This is a document describing how to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on ThinkPad T470s.

My Hardware

  • CPU: Intel Core i7-7600U (2.80GHz, 4MB cache)
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 620
  • Display: 14” WQHD (2560 X 1440) IPS Non-Touch Anti-Glare
  • Memory: 24GB DDR4 2133 MHz (8GB Onboard + 16GB)
  • SSD: PCIe-NVMe 256G OPAL 2.0
  • Wireless: Intel Dual Band Wireless AC (2x2) 8265 Bluetooth 4.1
  • Fingerprint Reader
@hadley
hadley / ds-training.md
Created March 13, 2015 18:49
My advise on what you need to do to become a data scientist...

If you were to give recommendations to your "little brother/sister" on things that they need to do to become a data scientist, what would those things be?

I think the "Data Science Venn Diagram" (http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram) is a great place to start. You need three things to be a good data scientist:

  • Statistical knowledge
  • Programming/hacking skills
  • Domain expertise

Statistical knowledge

@obfusk
obfusk / break.py
Last active May 1, 2024 20:32
python "breakpoint" (more or less equivalent to ruby's binding.pry); for a proper debugger, use https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html
import code; code.interact(local=dict(globals(), **locals()))
@nisanthchunduru
nisanthchunduru / delete_failed_jobs.rb
Last active September 15, 2022 18:37
Selectively remove/retry failed jobs in Resque 1.x
def delete_failed_job_if
redis = Resque.redis
(0...Resque::Failure.count).each do |i|
string = redis.lindex(:failed, i)
break if string.nil?
job = Resque.decode(string)
should_delete_job = yield job
next unless should_delete_job
@insin
insin / contactform.js
Last active January 9, 2024 05:27
React contact form example
/** @jsx React.DOM */
var STATES = [
'AL', 'AK', 'AS', 'AZ', 'AR', 'CA', 'CO', 'CT', 'DE', 'DC', 'FL', 'GA', 'HI',
'ID', 'IL', 'IN', 'IA', 'KS', 'KY', 'LA', 'ME', 'MD', 'MA', 'MI', 'MN', 'MS',
'MO', 'MT', 'NE', 'NV', 'NH', 'NJ', 'NM', 'NY', 'NC', 'ND', 'OH', 'OK', 'OR',
'PA', 'RI', 'SC', 'SD', 'TN', 'TX', 'UT', 'VT', 'VA', 'WA', 'WV', 'WI', 'WY'
]
var Example = React.createClass({
@madwork
madwork / attachment.rb
Last active July 25, 2021 09:13
Polymorphic attachments with CarrierWave and nested_attributes
class Attachment < ActiveRecord::Base
mount_uploader :attachment, AttachmentUploader
# Associations
belongs_to :attached_item, polymorphic: true
# Validations
validates_presence_of :attachment
@justincampbell
justincampbell / after.sh
Created March 1, 2013 17:45
Jenkins + GitHub Commit Status API
if [[ $BUILD_STATUS == "success" ]]
then
export STATUS="success"
else
export STATUS="failure"
fi
curl "https://api.github.com/repos/justincampbell/my_repo/statuses/$GIT_COMMIT?access_token=abc123" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-X POST \