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The Story of NPM and Yarn

In the beginning there was NPM, and for a time it was good. Packages went forth and multiplied. The New Gods proclaimed the great demon Dependency Management had been slain. But The Old Gods knew better, for they had seen much and knew that the demon can never be killed, only held at bay.

The Old Gods were ignored. In the folly of a young age grew an abundance of packages and with them grew the scourge of dependency. In the depths beneath the earth, in a place beyond memory, the great demon stirred.

The first sign something was wrong was non-deterministic package version mismatches. “This is fine!” The New Gods declared. “A temporary setback, nothing more! We can fix it.” And so they introduced shrinkwrap, a lamp to combat the growing darkness.

But it proved to be too little, too late, and dusk continued to fall. The New Gods suffered their first major defeat at the [Battle of Left-pad](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_

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The Story of NPM and Yarn

In the beginning there was NPM, and for a time it was good. Packages went forth and multiplied. The New Gods proclaimed the great demon Dependency Management had been slain. But The Old Gods knew better, for they had seen much and knew that the demon can never be killed, only held at bay.

The Old Gods were ignored. In the folly of a young age grew an abundance of packages and with them grew the scourge of dependency. In the depths beneath the earth, in a place beyond memory, the great demon stirred.

The first sign something was wrong was non-deterministic package version mismatches. “This is fine!” The New Gods declared. “A temporary setback, nothing more! We can fix it.” And so they introduced shrinkwrap, a lamp to combat the growing darkness.

But it proved to be too little, too late, and dusk continued to fall. The New Gods suffered their first major defeat at the [Battle of Left-pad](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_

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/* 
  Variation of http://stackoverflow.com/a/11508164/1956065
  Follow up to https://twitter.com/johnjcz/status/670365691329970176
  Inspired by UI of http://www.colorhexa.com/
*/

function bestTextColor(hex) {
  hex = hex.replace('#', '');
  var bigint = parseInt(hex, 16);

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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

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npm () {
  if [ "$1" = "publish" ]; then
    dependency-check . &&  $(which npm) "$@"
  else
    $(which npm) "$@"
  fi
}

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git clone https://github.com/postgres/postgres.git && cd postgres

./configure --prefix=/tmp/postgres --with-openssl --with-ossp-uuid --with-libs=/usr/local/opt/readline/lib/ --with-includes=/usr/local/opt/readline/include/ 
# skip the readline parts if you dont have readline installed but it makes `psql` better

make -sj8
make install

/tmp/postgres/bin/initdb /tmp/postgres/data

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|- node_modules/
|- src/
|   |
|   |- index.js/ <----------- uses browserify so anything in node_modules is game for require()
|   |  |- index.js
|   |  '- foo.coffee
|   |
|   |- index.css/ <---------- uses topcoatify so anything in node_modules is game. how import/etc works needs consideration

| | |- index.css

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# Thanks to Joe McCann for Dillinger!!!!!
# https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger

# this script doesn't work just by itself, you need to
# insert uris and keys that get created by heroku, dropbox and github


####### heroku ######
# install heroku toolbelt
wget -qO- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig 

# /etc/apt/sources.list should contain these:
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse

sudo echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula select true | sudo debconf-set-selections

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

error() {
  printf "$1\n" >&2
  exit 1
}

[[ $# -eq 0 ]] && error "Usage: `basename $0` hash column [row(s)]"

hash=${1?'Must provide Dataclip hash'}