gist:161265

== Rules ==
 On Infrastructure
 -----------------
 There is one system, not a collection of systems.
 The desired state of the system should be a known quantity.
 The "known quantity" must be machine parseable.
 The actual state of the system must self-correct to the desired state.
 The only authoritative source for the actual state of the system is the system.
 The entire system must be deployable using source media and text files.

tim-smart

--langdef=js
--langmap=js:.js
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*\{/\5/,object/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*function[ \t]*\(/\5/,function/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*\[/\5/,array/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*[^"]'[^']*/\5/,string/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*(true|false)/\5/,boolean/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*[0-9]+/\5/,number/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*.+([,;=]|$)/\5/,variable/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*[ \t]*([,;]|$)/\5/,variable/

raggi

require 'eventmachine'
EM.run do
  SEKRET_SAUCE = EM.attach(
    open(RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /mswin|mingw/ ? 'NUL:' : '/dev/null', 'w')
  )
  EM.start_server('0.0.0.0', 80, Module.new do
    def post_init; proxy_incoming_to(SEKRET_SAUCE); end
  end)
end

mikegehard

# adapted from rspec-rails http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/blob/master/spec/rspec/rails/mocks/mock_model_spec.rb
# put this in a file in your spec/support directory
# USAGE:
#
#    let(:model) { ModelUnderTest.new(params) }
#    it_behaves_like "ActiveModel"

shared_examples_for "ActiveModel" do
  require 'test/unit/assertions'
  require 'active_model/lint'

dchelimsky

module Test
  module Unit
    TestCase = RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup
  end
end

class Test::Unit::TestCase
  def self.inherited(host)
    host.set_it_up host.name.gsub(/(Spec|Test)/,'')
    def host.method_added(name)

lynaghk

(defn jsArr
  "Recursively converts a sequential object into a JavaScript array"
  [seq]
  (.array (vec (map #(if (sequential? %) (jsArr %) %)
                    seq))))

(defn jsObj
  "Convert a clojure map into a JavaScript object"
  [obj]
  (.strobj (into {} (map (fn [[k v]]

simonmichael

# unregister broken GHC packages. Run this a few times to resolve dependency rot in installed packages.                                                                                                                                     
# ghc-pkg-clean -f cabal/dev/packages*.conf also works.                                                                                                                                                                                     
function ghc-pkg-clean() {
    for p in `ghc-pkg check $* 2>&1  | grep problems | awk '{print $6}' | sed -e 's/:$//'`
    do
        echo unregistering $p; ghc-pkg $* unregister $p
    done
}

# remove all installed GHC/cabal packages, leaving ~/.cabal binaries and docs in place.                                                                                                                                                     

chitchcock

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

tonyc

Using strace and lsof to debug blocked processes

You can use strace on a specific pid to figure out what a specific process is doing, e.g.:

strace -fp <pid>

You might see something like:

select(9, [3 5 8], [], [], {0, 999999}) = 0 (Timeout)

burke

ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.