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@briancavalier
briancavalier / simple-promise-retry.js
Created February 24, 2011 18:35
A few general patterns for retries using promises
function keepTrying(otherArgs, promise) {
promise = promise||new Promise();
// try doing the important thing
if(success) {
promise.resolve(result);
} else {
setTimeout(function() {
keepTrying(otherArgs, promise);
@ksafranski
ksafranski / Common-Currency.json
Last active July 31, 2025 14:56
Common Currency Codes in JSON
{
"USD": {
"symbol": "$",
"name": "US Dollar",
"symbol_native": "$",
"decimal_digits": 2,
"rounding": 0,
"code": "USD",
"name_plural": "US dollars"
},
@jmyrland
jmyrland / test.js
Last active May 5, 2025 13:08
Socket-io load test?
/**
* Modify the parts you need to get it working.
*/
var should = require('should');
var request = require('../node_modules/request');
var io = require('socket.io-client');
var serverUrl = 'http://localhost';
@paulirish
paulirish / gist:5558557
Last active February 26, 2025 18:07
a brief history of detecting local storage

A timeline of the last four years of detecting good old window.localStorage.


Jan Lenhart, bless his heart contributed the first patch for support:

October 2009: 5059daa

@CMCDragonkai
CMCDragonkai / angularjs_directive_attribute_explanation.md
Last active April 20, 2025 17:02
JS: AngularJS Directive Attribute Binding Explanation

AngularJS Directive Attribute Binding Explanation

When using directives, you often need to pass parameters to the directive. This can be done in several ways. The first 3 can be used whether scope is true or false. This is still a WIP, so validate for yourself.

  1. Raw Attribute Strings

    <div my-directive="some string" another-param="another string"></div>
@plentz
plentz / nginx.conf
Last active August 14, 2025 00:51
Best nginx configuration for improved security(and performance)
# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active August 15, 2025 20:30
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@othiym23
othiym23 / npm-upgrade-bleeding.sh
Created September 20, 2014 19:36
a safe way to upgrade all of your globally-installed npm packages
#!/bin/sh
set -e
set -x
for package in $(npm -g outdated --parseable --depth=0 | cut -d: -f3)
do
npm -g install "$package"
done
<html>
<head>
<title>API Example</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var accessToken = "<your agent's client access token>";
var baseUrl = "https://api.api.ai/v1/";