juno

require 'json'
require 'httparty'

class Github
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'http://github.com/api/v2/json'

  # @param [String] username GitHub username
  # @param [String] password Password or API token
  def initialize(username, password)

karmi

ElasticSearch.org Website Search: Field Notes

These are field notes gathered during installation of website search facility for the ElasticSearch website.

You may re-use it to put a similar system in place.

The following assumes:

karmi

# Run me with:
#
#     $ nginx -p /path/to/this/file/ -c nginx.conf
#
# All requests are then routed to authenticated user's index, so
#
#    GET http://user:password@localhost:8080/_search?q=*
#
# is rewritten to:
#

mathiasbynens

// ==UserScript==
// @name Emulate `unsafeWindow` in browsers that don’t support it.
// ==/UserScript==

// http://mths.be/unsafewindow
window.unsafeWindow || (
	unsafeWindow = (function() {
		var el = document.createElement('p');
		el.setAttribute('onclick', 'return window;');
		return el.onclick();

fronx

class Hash
  def map_values(&block)
    merge(self) { |k, v| block.call(v) }
  end
end

puts ({:a => 1, :b => 2}.map_values { |x| x * 2})

# => {:a=>2, :b=>4}

krishan

# include this in your shell profile

function rake {
  if [ -e "Gemfile" ]
  then
    bundle exec rake $@
  else
    `which rake` $@
  fi
}

mrflip

Max Battery Life Checklist

Here is a checklist to follow if you want maximum battery life -- for instance if you're about to get on a long plane flight.

Low power use checklist

With power connected:

mbleigh

source "https://rubygems.org"

gem 'sprockets'
gem 'sprockets-sass'
gem 'sass'
gem 'compass'
gem 'bootstrap-sass'
gem 'handlebars_assets'
gem 'coffee-script'

harlantwood

# Committing changes to a repo via the Github API is not entirely trivial.
# The five-step process is outlined here:
#   http://developer.github.com/v3/git/
#
# Matt Swanson wrote a blog post translating the above steps into actual API calls:
#   http://swanson.github.com/blog/2011/07/23/digging-around-the-github-api-take-2.html
# 
# I was not able to find sample code for actually doing this in Ruby, 
# either via the HTTP API or any of the gems that wrap the API.
# So in the hopes it will help others, here is a simple function to 

klange

Since this is on Hacker News and reddit...

• No, I don't distribute my résumé like this. A friend of mine made a joke about me being the kind of person who would do this, so I did (the link on that page was added later). My actual résumé is a good bit crazier.
• I apologize for the use of _t in my types. I spend a lot of time at a level where I can do that; "reserved for system libraries? I am the system libraries".
• Since people kept complaining, I've fixed the assignments of string literals to non-const char *s.
• My use of type * name, however, is entirely intentional.
• If you're using an older compiler, you might have trouble with the anonymous unions and the designated initializers - I think gcc 4.4 requires some extra braces to get them working together. Anything reasonably recent should work fine. Clang and gcc (newer than 4.4, at le