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CDS Parent Interview Prep Guide

Core Philosophy

"What you learn and who you become are equally important."

This is CDS's guiding principle. The school balances academic success with character development. They want graduates who are both intellectually capable and grounded human beings.

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TypeScript/Node.js Import Antipatterns Analysis

Executive Summary

Your codebase has several structural issues causing build flakiness, bundle bloat, and deployment difficulties. The root causes are:

1. Eager initialization - Environment validation and database clients initialize at import time
2. Massive barrel exports - Single imports trigger loading of hundreds of modules
3. Circular dependencies - Models reference each other creating fragile import orders
4. Mixed import patterns - Inconsistent use of barrel vs deep imports

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Mac Dev Setup

Personally curated and highly opinionated list of applications, software, tools and other stuff for macOS with instructions on how to install them.

I recommend spending some time exploring each app and carefully examine if they actually fit your needs. Downloading software you don't need unecessarily bloats your Mac with wasted space. If you already know what you need, use the index to quickly traverse this document.

If you want a more comprehensive list, check out:
awesome-mac
awesome-macOS

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/***

  I couldn't stand the way JIRA looks any longer, so I went into an OCD fit and made it nicer.
  
  Step 1 - Install this chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-css/okpjlejfhacmgjkmknjhadmkdbcldfcb
  Step 2 - Visit your Jira Backlog and click on the "CSS" extension
  Step 3 - Copy this stylesheet into the editor it gives you, flick the "On" switch.
  Step 4 - Go to the backlog view of your JIRA board.
  Step 5 - Give me a big ol' hug.

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// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console

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.idea/

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#!/bin/bash

cd ~/workspace/lendinghome
(bundle check > /dev/null || bundle install)
ps aux | grep zeus | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9
rm .zeus.sock
reset
zeus start

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# assumes a hash collection's .each preserves order (true in ruby 1.9+ I believe)
inputs = {
  param1: [70,90,130],
  param2: [150_000, 170_000, 190_000],
  param3: [260, 370, 90],
  param4: [12,17,19],
  param5: ['string1','string2'],
}

arr1 = [[]] # algorithm only works if arr1 can be iterated over at least once

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module Todo
  class API < Grape::API
    use Rack::Session::Cookie
    version 'v1', :format => :json
    
    helpers do
      def current_user
        return nil if env['rack.session'][:user_id].nil?
        @current_user ||= User.get(env['rack.session'][:user_id])
      end

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# Outputs this at warn log level:
# 1.2.3.4 GET /path 200 OK BlahController#action HTML 938.2 (DB 11.8, View 719.7) {params} {optional params from flash[:log]}
# 
# Save as config/initializers/oneline_detailed_logging.rb. Consider 
# decreasing the log level from "info" to "warn" (in production.rb) so 
# the one-line log message replaces the standard request logs.


# override process_action to add 2 things to the payload:
# - remote IP