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>> "en–em—“double”‘single’".tr('<>–—“”‘’', '()--""' + "''")
=> "en'',em''\"'''double''''''single'''"

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// ==UserScript==
// @name          UTM param stripper
// @author        Paul Irish
// @namespace     http://github.com/paulirish
// @version       1.1
// @description   Drop the UTM params from a URL when the page loads.
// @extra         Cuz you know they're all ugly n shit.
// @include       http://*
// ==/UserScript==

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begin
  raise NotImplementedError, "this will not be rescued"
  puts "this will never be printed"
rescue => e
  puts "A #{e.inspect} has been rescued."
end


# Would result in:
# in `<main>': this will not be rescued (NotImplementedError)

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# Config for Nginx to act as a front-end for Riak
# The main goal is to proxy all GETs directly to Riak, and disallow anything else (POST, PUT, etc)
# Also, disallow use of the map/reduce query links (i.e. /riak/bucket/key/_,_,_)

# Config is in /etc/nginx/sites-available/default or somewhere like that

# Set up load-balancing to send requests to all nodes in the Riak cluster
# Replace these IPs/ports with the locations of your Riak nodes
upstream riak_hosts {
  server  127.0.0.1:8098;

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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't really have SREs and they make engi

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//     Backbone.js 0.5.3
//     (c) 2010 Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud Inc.
//     Backbone may be freely distributed under the MIT license.
//     For all details and documentation:
//     http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone

(function(){

  // Initial Setup
  // -------------

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// Loads images asynchronously so that the page would be displayed quicker.
//
// Define images with <img class="async" data-src="http://example.com/img.jpg">,
// and when load is called, all of the images' src attribute will be set from
// their data-src attribute.
var AsyncImagesLoader = {
  init: function() {
    AsyncImagesLoader.timeout = setTimeout(AsyncImagesLoader.load, 0);
  },

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source :rubygems

# Turbolinks and jQuery.turbolinks without Rails dependencies
gem 'turbolinks', :git => 'git://github.com/ronny/turbolinks.git', :branch => 'lite'
gem 'jquery-turbolinks', :git => 'git://github.com/ronny/jquery.turbolinks.git', :branch => 'lite'

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brew install libxml2 libxslt libiconv
brew link --force libxml2 libxslt libiconv

gem install nokogiri -v 1.6.2 -- --use-system-libraries

brew unlink libiconv libxml2 libxslt

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(ns ants)
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;   which can be found in the file CPL.TXT at the root of this distribution.
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;   the terms of this license.
;   You must not remove this notice, or any other, from this software.