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# Installs protobuf 2.6.0 on Ubuntu (currently not a deb package ugh)

protodir=protobuf-2.6.0
filename="$(protodir).tar.gz"
known_md5=9959d86087e64524d7f91e7a5a6e4fd7
builddir="$(mktemp -d $TMPDIR/protobuild.XXXXXX)"

if [ ! -d $builddir ]; then
  echo "$0: Can't create temp build dir! WTF??!"
  exit 1

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Better Jasmine Tests With this

On the Refinery29 Mobile Web Team, codenamed "Bicycle", all of our unit tests are written using Jasmine, an awesome BDD library written by Pivotal Labs. We recently switched how we set up data for tests from declaring and assigning to closures, to assigning properties to each test case's this object, and we've seen some awesome benefits from doing such.

The old way

Up until recently, a typical unit test for us looked something like this:

describe('views.Card', function() {

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###Comprehensive Technical Interview Question

Consider the following javascript module:

/**
 * A module for tracking when a user visits the page.
 */
window.VisitingDateTracker = {
  /**
 * Initialize the tracker.

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Testing Asynchronous Responses in Play! Framework

TL;DR

The Background

I came across this issue while I was working on a functional test for JAMLive!, a Play! application I'm currently working on obsessing over in my free time. I have a controller with a connect method that looks like this:

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"""
I apologize this isn't more well-documented :/
"""

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Plays the game of cat vs. dog
"""
from sys import stdin

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import java.util.Scanner;

/**
 * Class that contains logic to reverse the bits of an integer and spit it
 * back out.
 */
public class ReverseBinary {

  /**
   * Reverse the bits of an integer between 1 ≤ n ≤ 1000000000.