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pjstein / .gitignore
Last active January 1, 2016 17:28
my fave .gitignore
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*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
*.so
*.pyc
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pjstein / gist:8192813
Last active January 1, 2016 19:49
The Arguably Definitive History of Pong. This was recovered from some cache somewhere in the digital ether. I need to look over it and dig into the history presented here someday.
NB. This was recovered from some cache somewhere in the digital ether. I 
need to look over it and dig into the history presented here someday. -PJ$, 12.30.2013

ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN : The Dartmouth Independent
TITLE                  : The Arguably Definitive History of Pong
AUTHOR                 : Anoop Rathod
PUBLISHED              : Sep 19, 2005

Founded in 1769, Dartmouth College has withstood the travails of history to remain one of this country's finest academic institutions with a strong set of time-honored

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pjstein / throwItOnALayer.js
Last active August 29, 2015 13:56
layers-in-react
/*
Instagram is 100% React. They pop modals. I didn't know how you could
do that in React, so I guessed based on what was going on the in
Chrome inspector. The following code assumes a commonJS module system.
Classes that I pass into this use the this.props.teardown to take themselves
down.
*/
var _ = require('lodash'),
React = require('react');
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pjstein / you-take-my-breath-away.js
Created February 16, 2014 06:40
@SassyHash, you take my breath away
/*
* you-take-my-breath-away.js
*
* The MIT License (MIT)
*
* Copyright (c) 2014 PJ$
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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pjstein / hadoop-yarn-grep-failure
Last active August 29, 2015 13:58
failed states
failed: [silo-03] => {"changed": true, "cmd": "su - hdfs -c \"export HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop-mapreduce && hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-examples.jar grep /source-for-mapreduce-test /outputfile 'hello'\" ", "delta": "0:00:11.452524", "end": "2014-04-10 20:01:31.965314", "rc": 255, "start": "2014-04-10 20:01:20.512790"}
stderr: 14/04/10 20:01:22 INFO client.RMProxy: Connecting to ResourceManager at silo-03/33.12.34.53:8032
14/04/10 20:01:23 WARN mapreduce.JobSubmitter: No job jar file set. User classes may not be found. See Job or Job#setJar(String).
14/04/10 20:01:23 INFO input.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to process : 1
14/04/10 20:01:23 INFO mapreduce.JobSubmitter: number of splits:1
14/04/10 20:01:23 INFO mapreduce.JobSubmitter: Submitting tokens for job: job_1397160042836_0001
14/04/10 20:01:23 INFO mapred.YARNRunner: Job jar is not present. Not adding any jar to the list of resources.
14/04/10 20:01:24 INFO impl.YarnClientImpl: Submitted application application_13
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pjstein / comment.py
Created November 4, 2014 22:16
A Comment
# NB. This affront to reason mocks our beliefs in everything save chaos and death.
# May whatever you call Holy forgive you, the damned, who read further
# than this point. You have been warned. But if you scorn this warning, if
# your contempt for these my dying words is so complete that you read on,
# if you still believe that there is something good or right or just in this world,
# then I will meet you, smiling, with hot tears in my eyes, when you join me in the
# black and brackish pit, the Hell below Hell, where I now go.
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pjstein / gist:dae80608e7a732cd63b2
Created November 6, 2014 03:23
linkedin-summary

All in all, Jonathan Delano Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” is a volume of enormous import to American literature. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of English Words defines “catcher” as, “someone or something that catches something,” while it defines “rye” as, “a hardy annual grass that is widely grown for grain and as a cover crop.” But that is not the novel’s only point of contrast! Indeed, “The Catcher and the Rye” is a puzzle — a pile of amorphous cardboard pieces that through determined study you may put together (assuming, of course, there is a way to fit all of the pieces together). But puzzles — like people, like life — are not meant to be solved. They intrigue. They inspire. They are meaningless diversions. “Life is a game, boy,” Spencer says — for games are more fun than puzzles. And were he honest he would add, “Welcome to the games! Be merry, be miserable, take heart or lose it. Get drunk, make mistakes. Work hard, race the rats. Everything and nothing is here for your enjoyment. Everything and no

#!/bin/bash
set -ev
SWIFT_SNAPSHOT="swift-2.2-SNAPSHOT-2016-01-06-a"
echo "Installing ${SWIFT_SNAPSHOT}..."
curl -s -L -O "https://swift.org/builds/ubuntu1404/${SWIFT_SNAPSHOT}/${SWIFT_SNAPSHOT}-ubuntu14.04.tar.gz"
tar -zxvf "${SWIFT_SNAPSHOT}-ubuntu14.04.tar.gz"
sudo mv "${SWIFT_SNAPSHOT}-ubuntu14.04" /swift
echo "Installing XCTest..."
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pjstein / easing.js
Created February 21, 2018 04:15 — forked from gre/easing.js
Simple Easing Functions in Javascript - see https://github.com/gre/bezier-easing
/*
* Easing Functions - inspired from http://gizma.com/easing/
* only considering the t value for the range [0, 1] => [0, 1]
*/
EasingFunctions = {
// no easing, no acceleration
linear: function (t) { return t },
// accelerating from zero velocity
easeInQuad: function (t) { return t*t },
// decelerating to zero velocity
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pjstein / umap_sparse.py
Created August 22, 2018 18:17 — forked from johnhw/umap_sparse.py
1 million prime UMAP layout
### JHW 2018
import numpy as np
import umap
# This code from the excellent module at:
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4643647/fast-prime-factorization-module
import random