In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:
http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/
It became a big deal:
http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1
The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)
All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.
Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.
elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent
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| // Regular Expression for URL validation | |
| // | |
| // Author: Diego Perini | |
| // Created: 2010/12/05 | |
| // Updated: 2018/09/12 | |
| // License: MIT | |
| // | |
| // Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Diego Perini (http://www.iport.it) | |
| // |
This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.
The script is here:
#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"
| Add the following in .zshrc: | |
| ... | |
| plugins=(osx git zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-nvm docker kubectl) | |
| ... | |
| ### Fix slowness of pastes with zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh | |
| pasteinit() { | |
| OLD_SELF_INSERT=${${(s.:.)widgets[self-insert]}[2,3]} | |
| zle -N self-insert url-quote-magic # I wonder if you'd need `.url-quote-magic`? |
| function run(input, parameters) { | |
| const appNames = []; | |
| const skipAppNames = []; | |
| const verbose = true; | |
| const scriptName = "close_notifications_applescript"; | |
| const CLEAR_ALL_ACTION = "Clear All"; | |
| const CLEAR_ALL_ACTION_TOP = "Clear"; |
Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
| ffmpeg -i data/video.mp4 -vcodec h264 -b:v 1000k -acodec mp2 data/output.mp4 |
| echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc | |
| . ~/.bashrc | |
| mkdir ~/local | |
| mkdir ~/node-latest-install | |
| cd ~/node-latest-install | |
| curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1 | |
| ./configure --prefix=~/local | |
| make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds... | |
| curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh |