jdiaz5513

#! /usr/bin/env python2
# Requires: PIL, colormath
#
# Improved algorithm now automatically crops the image and uses much 
# better color matching

from PIL import Image, ImageChops
from colormath.color_conversions import convert_color
from colormath.color_objects import LabColor
from colormath.color_objects import sRGBColor as RGBColor

paulmach

/*
Serve is a very simple static file server in go
Usage:
	-p="8100": port to serve on
	-d=".":    the directory of static files to host

Navigating to http://localhost:8100 will display the index.html or directory
listing file.
*/
package main

kr

#!/usr/bin/env python

# jsonenv reads a json object as input and produces
# escaped shell commands for setting environment vars

import json
import pipes
import sys

for k, v in json.load(sys.stdin).items():

elazarl

package cp

import (
	"io"
	"os"
)

func cp(dst, src string) error {
	s, err := os.Open(src)
	if err != nil {

dergachev

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:

nikcub

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

vmihailenco

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/hex"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"log"
	"net"

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

bcardarella

# Heavily borrowed from ActiveMerchant::Biling::CreditCard
# Updated for ActiveModel::Validations

class CreditCard
  include ActiveMerchant::Billing::CreditCardMethods
  include ActiveModel::Validations
  include ActiveModel::Validations::Callbacks
  include ActiveModel::Naming
  
  ## Attributes