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@mikevansnell
mikevansnell / invite.js
Last active October 22, 2018 21:04
Parse.com cloudcode sample that enables one user to invite another user, and immediately returns the new user object so that you can do something with it (e.g. start associating objects with it).
// in invite.js module:
exports.inviteUser = function(creatingUser,email,tempPass,response)
{
"use strict";
if (!tempPass) {
tempPass = genRandomPass();
}
var user = new Parse.User();
user.set ("username", email);
@jamesrampton
jamesrampton / open_without.sh
Last active October 8, 2019 21:16
Clean up Mac OS X Open With menu
#!/bin/bash
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
killall Finder
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active February 27, 2025 10:00
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@rsms
rsms / gist:3564654
Created September 1, 2012 05:33
Life is purposeless. And it is beautiful that it is purposeless

Life is purposeless. And it is beautiful that it is purposeless

It is very difficult, particularly for the Western mind, to understand that life is purposeless. And it is beautiful that it is purposeless. If it is purposeful then the whole thing becomes absurd – then who will decide the purpose? Then some God has to be conceived who decides the purpose, and then human beings become just puppets; then no freedom is possible. And if there is some purpose then life becomes businesslike, it cannot be ecstatic.

The West has been thinking in terms of purpose, but the East has been thinking in terms of purposelessness. The East says life is not a business, it is a play. And a play has no purpose really, it is nonpurposeful. Or you can say play is its own purpose, to play is enough. Life is not reaching towards some goal, life itself is the goal. It is not evolving towards some ultimate; this very moment, here and now, life is ultimate.

Life as it is, is accepted in the East. It is not moving towards some end, b

@mikeash
mikeash / gist:837409
Created February 21, 2011 17:47
Block-based URL connection
// NSURLConnection wrapper
// like NSURLConnection, requires a runloop, callbacks happen in runloop that set up load
@interface LDURLLoader : NSObject
{
NSURLConnection *_connection;
NSTimeInterval _timeout;
NSTimer *_timeoutTimer;
NSURLResponse *_response;
long long _responseLengthEstimate;
NSMutableData *_accumulatedData;
@MicahElliott
MicahElliott / colortrans.py
Created November 29, 2010 07:57
Convert values between RGB hex codes and xterm-256 color codes.
#! /usr/bin/env python
""" Convert values between RGB hex codes and xterm-256 color codes.
Nice long listing of all 256 colors and their codes. Useful for
developing console color themes, or even script output schemes.
Resources:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-bit_color
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
#!/bin/bash
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
## Copyright (C) 2009 Przemyslaw Pawelczyk <[email protected]>
##
## This script is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
## https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
#
# Lockable script boilerplate