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@ghoseb
ghoseb / factorial.py
Created November 14, 2008 18:58
The evolution of a Python Programmer
#Newbie programmer
def factorial(x):
if x == 0:
return 1
else:
return x * factorial(x - 1)
print factorial(6)
#First year programmer, studied Pascal
@chitchcock
chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

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 real

@troelskn
troelskn / gist:1287893
Created October 14, 2011 18:24
Luhn's algorithm in php
<?php
function is_valid_luhn($number) {
settype($number, 'string');
$sumTable = array(
array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9),
array(0,2,4,6,8,1,3,5,7,9));
$sum = 0;
$flip = 0;
for ($i = strlen($number) - 1; $i >= 0; $i--) {
$sum += $sumTable[$flip++ & 0x1][$number[$i]];
@peteboere
peteboere / jquery.alterclass.js
Created December 24, 2011 12:49
jQuery alterClass plugin: Remove element classes with wildcard matching. Optionally add classes.
/**
* jQuery alterClass plugin
*
* Remove element classes with wildcard matching. Optionally add classes:
* $( '#foo' ).alterClass( 'foo-* bar-*', 'foobar' )
*
* Copyright (c) 2011 Pete Boere (the-echoplex.net)
* Free under terms of the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
*
*/
@jasonrudolph
jasonrudolph / git-branches-by-commit-date.sh
Created February 12, 2012 20:40
List remote Git branches and the last commit date for each branch. Sort by most recent commit date.
# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r
@jbgo
jbgo / git-recover-branch.md
Last active May 23, 2024 12:29
How to recover a git branch you accidentally deleted

UPDATE: A better way! (August 2015)

As pointed out by @johntyree in the comments, using git reflog is easier and more reliable. Thanks for the suggestion!

 $ git reflog
1ed7510 HEAD@{1}: checkout: moving from develop to 1ed7510
3970d09 HEAD@{2}: checkout: moving from b-fix-build to develop
1ed7510 HEAD@{3}: commit: got everything working the way I want
70b3696 HEAD@{4}: commit: upgrade rails, do some refactoring
@dwayne
dwayne / 00-install-on-64-bit-ubuntu-14.04.md
Last active January 12, 2024 17:48
Installing node and npm on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
  1. Navigate to http://nodejs.org/download/ and on the Linux Binaries (.tar.gz) row click to download the 64-bit version of the current latest release.

  2. Say you've downloaded node-v0.10.7-linux-x64.tar.gz into the Downloads directory. Then, open the terminal and type the following:

$ cd ~/Downloads
$ mkdir -p ~/local/node
$ tar xzf node-v0.10.7-linux-x64.tar.gz -C ~/local/node --strip-components=1
$ echo '# Node Enviroment Setup' >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/node/bin:$PATH' &gt;&gt; ~/.bashrc
@earthgecko
earthgecko / bash.generate.random.alphanumeric.string.sh
Last active October 16, 2024 20:10
shell/bash generate random alphanumeric string
#!/bin/bash
# bash generate random alphanumeric string
#
# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (upper and lowercase) and
NEW_UUID=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1)
# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (lowercase only)
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1
@agnoster
agnoster / README.md
Last active September 25, 2024 09:27
My ZSH Theme

agnoster.zsh-theme

A ZSH theme optimized for people who use:

  • Solarized
  • Git
  • Unicode-compatible fonts and terminals (I use iTerm2 + Menlo)

For Mac users, I highly recommend iTerm 2 + Solarized Dark

@nikcub
nikcub / README.md
Created October 4, 2012 13:06
Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007