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moyix

#!/bin/bash

gdb -p "$1" -batch -ex 'set {short}$rip = 0x050f' -ex 'set $rax=231' -ex 'set $rdi=0' -ex 'cont'

timvisee

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

• There are always 24 hours in a day.
• February is always 28 days long.
• Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

sergiodxa

function asyncThread(fn, ...args) {
  if (!window.Worker) throw Promise.reject(
    new ReferenceError(`WebWorkers aren't available.`)
  );
  
  const fnWorker = `
  self.onmessage = function(message) {
    (${fn.toString()})
      .apply(null, message.data)
      .then(result => self.postMessage(result));

adamrecsko

import {PipeTransform, Pipe} from 'angular2/core';

@Pipe({ name: 'highlight' })
export class HighLightPipe implements PipeTransform {
  transform(text: string, [search]): string {
    return search ? text.replace(new RegExp(search, 'i'), `<span class="highlight">${search}</span>`) : text;
  }
}

/** Usage: 

farnabaz

//
// Arrow for fabric.js 
// 
(function($){
  $.Arrow = $.util.createClass($.Line, $.Observable, {
    initialize: function(e,t) {
      this.callSuper("initialize", e, t)
      this.set({type:'arrow'});
    },
    _render: function(e) {

psayre23

Below are the Big O performance of common functions of different Java Collections.


List                 | Add  | Remove | Get  | Contains | Next | Data Structure
---------------------|------|--------|------|----------|------|---------------
ArrayList            | O(1) |  O(n)  | O(1) |   O(n)   | O(1) | Array
LinkedList           | O(1) |  O(1)  | O(n) |   O(n)   | O(1) | Linked List
CopyOnWriteArrayList | O(n) |  O(n)  | O(1) |   O(n)   | O(1) | Array