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@LoicMahieu
LoicMahieu / reminder.md
Created June 15, 2015 09:22
OVH Object Storage
@omnibs
omnibs / phoenix showdown rackspace onmetal io.md
Last active June 10, 2024 17:47
Phoenix Showdown Comparative Benchmarks @ Rackspace

Comparative Benchmark Numbers @ Rackspace

I've taken the benchmarks from Matthew Rothenberg's phoenix-showdown, updated Phoenix to 0.13.1 and ran the tests on the most powerful machines available at Rackspace.

Results

Framework Throughput (req/s) Latency (ms) Consistency (蟽 ms)
@pixeltrix
pixeltrix / time_vs_datatime.md
Last active September 28, 2025 09:53
When should you use DateTime and when should you use Time?

When should you use DateTime and when should you use Time?

It's a common misconception that [William Shakespeare][1] and [Miguel de Cervantes][2] died on the same day in history - so much so that UNESCO named April 23 as [World Book Day because of this fact][3]. However because England hadn't yet adopted [Gregorian Calendar Reform][4] (and wouldn't until [1752][5]) their deaths are actually 10 days apart. Since Ruby's Time class implements a [proleptic Gregorian calendar][6] and has no concept of calendar reform then there's no way to express this. This is where DateTime steps in:

>> shakespeare = DateTime.iso8601('1616-04-23', Date::ENGLAND)
=> Tue, 23 Apr 1616 00:00:00 +0000
>> cervantes = DateTime.iso8601('1616-04-23', Date::ITALY)
=> Sat, 23 Apr 1616 00:00:00 +0000
@non
non / answer.md
Last active February 28, 2025 11:46
answer @nuttycom

What is the appeal of dynamically-typed languages?

Kris Nuttycombe asks:

I genuinely wish I understood the appeal of unityped languages better. Can someone who really knows both well-typed and unityped explain?

I think the terms well-typed and unityped are a bit of question-begging here (you might as well say good-typed versus bad-typed), so instead I will say statically-typed and dynamically-typed.

I'm going to approach this article using Scala to stand-in for static typing and Python for dynamic typing. I feel like I am credibly proficient both languages: I don't currently write a lot of Python, but I still have affection for the language, and have probably written hundreds of thousands of lines of Python code over the years.

@chantastic
chantastic / on-jsx.markdown
Last active May 13, 2025 12:04
JSX, a year in

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

@shrayasr
shrayasr / bulk-insert-sa.md
Last active December 11, 2020 16:04
Bulk Inserts via SQLAlchemy and Flask-SQLAlchemy

Bulk Inserts via SQLAlchemy and Flask-SQLAlchemy

Problem

I ran into an issue today where I had to perform a bulk insert into a postgres DB. I was already using SQLAlchemy and Flask-SQLAlchemy to manage the connections to the db and I didn't want to have to use things like psycopg2 directly.

Solution

Note: SQLAlchemy provides an ORM. It isn't just an ORM. That is an important thing to be kept in mind. This means that you can bypass choose to not use the ORM layer when you don't want it. The idea with an ORM is to track changes to objects and when you have a case like that is when you'd use the ORM. In a bulk upload scenario, you don't need to track changes to objects. All you care is that everything be pushed into the DB.

@ericelliott
ericelliott / essential-javascript-links.md
Last active June 14, 2025 18:43
Essential JavaScript Links
@yurydelendik
yurydelendik / gist:f2b846dae7cb29c86d23
Last active August 1, 2025 10:57
PDF.js get/show hightlight
function getHightlightCoords() {
var pageIndex = PDFViewerApplication.pdfViewer.currentPageNumber - 1;
var page = PDFViewerApplication.pdfViewer.getPageView(pageIndex);
var pageRect = page.canvas.getClientRects()[0];
var selectionRects = window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).getClientRects();
var viewport = page.viewport;
var selected = selectionRects.map(function (r) {
return viewport.convertToPdfPoint(r.left - pageRect.x, r.top - pageRect.y).concat(
viewport.convertToPdfPoint(r.right - pageRect.x, r.bottom - pageRect.y));
});
@tkafka
tkafka / LICENSE.txt
Last active September 18, 2025 20:18
Drop-in replacement for ReactCSSTransitionGroup that uses velocity.js instead of CSS transforms. Add your own transitions to `transitions` hash.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 Tomas Kafka
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
@maxpaynestory
maxpaynestory / scrape_tweets.js
Created September 5, 2014 17:59
Scrape all tweets from a twitter account using casperjs and phantomjs
String.prototype.trim=function(){return this.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');}
String.prototype.ltrim=function(){return this.replace(/^\s+/,'');};
String.prototype.rtrim=function(){return this.replace(/\s+$/,'');};
String.prototype.fulltrim=function(){return this.replace(/(?:(?:^|\n)\s+|\s+(?:$|\n))/g,'').replace(/\s+/g,' ');};
Date.prototype.MMDDYYYY = function() {