adelcambre

Some basics on Tokyo

Your phone should work

Just like in Europe. It's the same normal international data plan for most carriers (I've done it on At&t and Verizon).

Cash is king

And you get cash from 7-11 (yes I'm serious). American cards very very frequently don't work. Especially in any sort of machine, particularly vending machines and the train ticket machines. Many atm's won't take american cards either. But, every single 7-11 (which are everywhere) has an atm which takes american cards. They sometimes say 7-i, or Seven and i holdings. It's all the same thing (7-11 is actually a japanese company, and they are everywhere). Other than 7-11, every Post office should have an ATM that works too, but they are way less common.

searls

# This is just a scratchpad after I hacked what I needed in an irb session
require 'octokit'

Octokit.configure do |c|
  c.login = 'searls'
  c.password = 'c0d3b4ssssss!'
end

client = Octokit::Client.new
repos = client.repos #Note, for an org's repos, see `client.orgs.first.rels[:repos].get.data`

brianmario

Bars

PROTIP: Bars in Oregon have to serve food as long as they're serving alcohol. As a result, some of them have amazing food.

PROTIP: You can't buy alcohol (other than beer or wine) anywhere else but a state-controlled liquor store. Most of them are closed on Sundays and close around 7pm every other night of the week.

Southeast

• The Night Light - This was our favorite bar just before we moved to Italy. Right in the heart of the quiet Clinton district (where we were living at the time).
• The Doug Fir Lounge - I hate to use the word swanky again but that's the only way I can describe it. The entire place is built to look like a log cabin. Used to go here all the time. Pretty good bar. The restaurant is open until 3am (or at least was when I lived there) and has some DAMN good gastro pub style food. The halibut fish and chips and burger are insane. Funny enough, I saw the GitHub guys here (including maddox and Tek I think?) after

peterjmit

#!/bin/bash
# REQUIRES SUDO
# Benchmark runner

repeats=20
output_file='benchmark_results.csv'
command_to_run='echo 1'

run_tests() {
    # --------------------------------------------------------------------------

rkh

This allows you to use the following video streaming services outside of the US from your Mac without having to use a proxy or VPN, so no big bandwidth issues:

• Hulu / HuluPlus
• CBS
• ABC
• MTV
• theWB
• CW TV
• Crackle
• NBC