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Hoodie vs. Meteor

Preface: Not a Meteor Expert. Please comment with improvements.

Paraphrasing philosophy:

  • Hoodie, Look ma! No Backend.
  • Meteor, Backend Power on the Fronend.

A couple of high-level observations:

@sent-hil
sent-hil / pictures.markdown
Created August 24, 2012 02:18
River (getriver.com): Keep a programming journal.

One of my favorite past times is to look at the notebooks of famous scientists. Da Vinci's notebook is well known, but there plenty others. Worshipping Da Vinci like no other, I bought a Think/Create/Record journal, used it mostly to keep jot down random thoughts and take notes. This was great in the beginning, but the conformity of lines drove me nuts. Only moleskines made blank notebooks, so I had to buy one.

At the same time I started a freelance project. The project itself is irrelevant, but suffice to say it was very complex and spanned several months. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to use the moleskine. Looking back, all my entries fell under few categories:

  • Todo
  • Question
  • Thought
  • Bug
  • Feature
@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

@hrldcpr
hrldcpr / tree.md
Last active January 24, 2026 21:18
one-line tree in python

One-line Tree in Python

Using Python's built-in defaultdict we can easily define a tree data structure:

def tree(): return defaultdict(tree)

That's it!

@catsby
catsby / gist:943028
Created April 26, 2011 20:16 — forked from schacon/gist:942899
delete all remote branches that have already been merged into master
$ git branch -r --merged |
grep origin |
grep -v '>' |
grep -v master |
xargs -L1 |
awk '{sub(/origin\//,"");print}' |
xargs git push origin --delete