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@jordanorelli
jordanorelli / gif_example.pde
Created February 20, 2013 02:38
make an animated gif with Processing
import gifAnimation.*;
GifMaker gifExport;
int frames = 0;
int totalFrames = 120;
public void setup() {
smooth();
size(400, 400);
begin;
/*
Problem: I don't want the application to really care about how the data is
structured in the database. The application / view code needs to work
with the data in a sane format, without worrying about normalization, joins,
eager fetching, etc.
DB Schema Overview:
orders
@quiver
quiver / README.md
Last active September 19, 2024 12:21
Who says PostgreSQL can't Pub/Sub like Redis?

Pub/Sub pattern with PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY command

This is a simple chat-like program using pub-sub pattern, backed by PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY command.

Publish

publish message to foo channel from user nickname.

$ python pub.py foo nickname
PUBLISH to channel #foo
Capybara.add_selector :record do
xpath { |record| XPath.css("#" + ActionController::RecordIdentifier.dom_id(record)) }
match { |record| record.is_a?(ActiveRecord::Base) }
end
@tonymorris
tonymorris / Balance.scala
Created September 23, 2012 01:43
Balance Parentheses
// Missing support libraries
object MissingLibraries {
case class State[S, +A](run: S => (A, S)) {
def map[B](f: A => B): State[S, B] =
State(s => {
val (a, t) = run(s)
(f(a), t)
})
def flatMap[B](f: A => State[S, B]): State[S, B] =
@mikhailov
mikhailov / 0. nginx_setup.sh
Last active June 6, 2025 19:19
NGINX+SPDY with Unicorn. True Zero-Downtime unless migrations. Best practices.
# Nginx+Unicorn best-practices congifuration guide. Heartbleed fixed.
# We use latest stable nginx with fresh **openssl**, **zlib** and **pcre** dependencies.
# Some extra handy modules to use: --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_gzip_static_module
#
# Deployment structure
#
# SERVER:
# /etc/init.d/nginx (1. nginx)
# /home/app/public_html/app_production/current (Capistrano directory)
#
@marktheunissen
marktheunissen / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active June 15, 2025 15:49 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.
@ckirkendall
ckirkendall / clojure-match.clj
Created June 15, 2012 02:26 — forked from bkyrlach/Expression.fs
Language Compare F#, Ocaml, Scala, Clojure, Ruby and Haskell - Simple AST example
(use '[clojure.core.match :only [match]])
(defn evaluate [env [sym x y]]
(match [sym]
['Number] x
['Add] (+ (evaluate env x) (evaluate env y))
['Multiply] (* (evaluate env x) (evaluate env y))
['Variable] (env x)))
(def environment {"a" 3, "b" 4, "c" 5})
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active June 28, 2025 18:48
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@wojtekmach
wojtekmach / account_test.rb
Created May 3, 2012 09:45
Writing MiniTest extensions
require 'minitest/autorun'
module MiniTest::Assertions
def assert_changes(obj, method, exp_diff)
before = obj.send method
yield
after = obj.send method
diff = after - before
assert_equal exp_diff, diff, "Expected #{obj.class.name}##{method} to change by #{exp_diff}, changed by #{diff}"