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EDIT from 2019: Hi folks. I wrote this gist for myself and some friends, and it seems like it's gotten posted somewhere that's generated some (ahem, heated) discussion. The whitespace was correct when it was posted, and since then GitHub changed how it formats <pre> tags. Look at the raw text if you care about this. I'm sure someone could tell me how to fix it, but (thank you @anzdaddy for suggesting a formatting workaround) honestly this is a random throwaway gist from 2015, and someone more knowledgable about this comparison should just write a proper blog post about it. If you comment here I'll hopefully see it and stick a link to it up here. Cheers. @oconnor663

Here's the canonical TOML example from the TOML README, and a YAML version of the same.

title = "TOML Example"
 
@revolunet
revolunet / python-es6-comparison.md
Last active April 11, 2025 10:54
# Python VS JavaScript ES6 syntax comparison

Python VS ES6 syntax comparison

Python syntax here : 2.7 - online REPL

Javascript ES6 via Babel transpilation - online REPL

Imports

import math
@JoshCheek
JoshCheek / why_i_chose_fish_over_bash_for_students.md
Last active December 14, 2021 20:30
Why I Chose Fish Over Bash For Students

Why I chose Fish over Bash for students

I'm currently the lead instructor at Code Platoon and an instructor/developer at the Turing School of Software and Design.

I've been advocating the Fish shell and when the choice is up to me, I choose that for my students. Enough people ask about the decision, particularly in relation to the preinstalled Bash shell, that I figured it's worth laying out my reasoning.

TL;DR

@evanwill
evanwill / gitBash_windows.md
Last active May 6, 2025 00:17
how to add more utilities to git bash for windows, wget, make

How to add more to Git Bash on Windows

Git for Windows comes bundled with the "Git Bash" terminal which is incredibly handy for unix-like commands on a windows machine. It is missing a few standard linux utilities, but it is easy to add ones that have a windows binary available.

The basic idea is that C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\ is your / directory according to Git Bash (note: depending on how you installed it, the directory might be different. from the start menu, right click on the Git Bash icon and open file location. It might be something like C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Git, the mingw64 in this directory is your root. Find it by using pwd -W). If you go to that directory, you will find the typical linux root folder structure (bin, etc, lib and so on).

If you are missing a utility, such as wget, track down a binary for windows and copy the files to the corresponding directories. Sometimes the windows binary have funny prefixes, so

@robertpainsi
robertpainsi / README.md
Last active April 25, 2025 16:54
How to reopen a pull-request after a force-push?

How to reopen a pull-request after a force-push?

Precodinitions

  • You need the rights to reopen pull requests on the repository.
  • The pull request hasn't been merged, just closed.

Instructions

  1. Write down the current commit hash of your PR-branch git log --oneline -1 <PR-BRANCH>
  2. Write down the latest commit hash on github before the PR has been closed.
  3. git push -f origin :
@cyhsutw
cyhsutw / MathJax.ipynb
Last active February 22, 2025 20:17
Grabbed from https://github.com/odewahn/ipynb-examples, converted to v3 for GitHub to render.
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@brettcannon
brettcannon / 3.5-comparison.txt
Created September 13, 2016 18:53
Performance comparison between Python 3.5.2+ & 3.6b1+
+------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+--------------+-------------------------+
| Benchmark | 3.5-perf.json | 3.6-perf.json | Change | Significance |
+====================================+===============+===============+==============+=========================+
| 2to3 | 0.68 | 0.62 | 1.09x faster | Significant (t=65.03) |
+------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+--------------+-------------------------+
| call_method | 0.02 | 0.02 | 1.07x faster | Significant (t=46.01) |
+------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+--------------+-------------------------+
| call_method_slots | 0.02 | 0.02 | 1.06x faster | Significant (t=29.45) |
+------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+--------------+-------------------------+
| call_method_un
@nicktimko
nicktimko / override_guard.ipynb
Last active November 25, 2016 19:43
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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
#author: rex
#blog: http://iregex.org
#filename trie.py
#created: 2010-08-01 20:24
#source uri: http://iregex.org/blog/trie-in-python.html
# escape bug fix by fcicq @ 2012.8.19
@mdonkers
mdonkers / server.py
Last active April 4, 2025 13:11
Simple Python 3 HTTP server for logging all GET and POST requests
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
License: MIT License
Copyright (c) 2023 Miel Donkers
Very simple HTTP server in python for logging requests
Usage::
./server.py [<port>]
"""
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer