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@grantslatton
grantslatton / hngen.py
Last active September 27, 2021 11:07
A program that uses Markov chains to generate probabilistic Hacker News titles.
import urllib2
import re
import sys
from collections import defaultdict
from random import random
"""
PLEASE DO NOT RUN THIS QUOTED CODE FOR THE SAKE OF daemonology's SERVER, IT IS
NOT MY SERVER AND I FEEL BAD FOR ABUSING IT. JUST GET THE RESULTS OF THE
CRAWL HERE: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=nqpsnTtW AND SAVE THEM TO "archive.txt"
@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active May 11, 2026 06:39
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

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@tsiege
tsiege / The Technical Interview Cheat Sheet.md
Last active May 13, 2026 14:18
This is my technical interview cheat sheet. Feel free to fork it or do whatever you want with it. PLEASE let me know if there are any errors or if anything crucial is missing. I will add more links soon.

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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@taylorhughes
taylorhughes / uploader.go
Last active October 11, 2025 22:40
A lightly modified excerpt from Cluster's streaming media upload server, which encodes video on the fly as it is uploaded.
func EncodeStreamingVideo(streamingFile io.Reader, request ShouldCanceler) (*os.File, error) {
outputFilename := generateFilename("mp4")
// Actually start the command.
cmd := exec.Command("ffmpeg",
// Read input from stdin.
"-i", "-",
// ... environment-specific ffmpeg options ...
"-y", outputFilename)
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active May 12, 2026 01:57
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@elado
elado / cequel-database_cleaner.rb
Last active April 8, 2021 08:25
Cequel + DatabaseCleaner and RSpec
# in spec_helper.rb
RSpec.configure do |config|
records = []
config.before :suite do
Cequel::Record.descendants.each do |klass|
klass.after_create {|r| records << r }
end
end
var pureRender = (Component) => {
Object.assign(Component.prototype, {
shouldComponentUpdate (nextProps, nextState) {
return !shallowEqual(this.props, nextProps) ||
!shallowEqual(this.state, nextState);
}
});
};
module.exports = pureRender;
(require 'vlad.core)
(def rules
(join (attr [:name] present)
(attr [:message] present)))
(def names
{[:name] "Name"
[:message] "Message"})
@stevedomin
stevedomin / create_post.exs
Last active December 26, 2024 09:19
Using UUIDs as primary key with Ecto
defmodule MyBlog.Repo.Migrations.CreatePost do
use Ecto.Migration
def change do
create table(:posts, primary_key: false) do
add :id, :uuid, primary_key: true
add :body, :string
add :word_count, :integer
timestamps