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timvisee / falsehoods-programming-time-list.md
Last active April 29, 2025 22:28
Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list

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).
@kyledrake
kyledrake / ferengi-plan.txt
Last active January 10, 2025 14:02
How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds on your website using Nginx
# The blog post that started it all: https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited
#
# Current known FCC address ranges:
# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716915
#
# Confirm/locate FCC IP ranges with this: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-165-135-0-0-1/pft
#
# In your nginx.conf:
location / {
@jbtule
jbtule / AESGCM.cs
Last active April 8, 2025 20:34
I have two code examples that I wrote for best practices encrypting a string in c#. They are both using authenticated encryption. http://stackoverflow.com/a/10366194/637783
/*
* This work (Modern Encryption of a String C#, by James Tuley),
* identified by James Tuley, is free of known copyright restrictions.
* https://gist.github.com/4336842
* http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
*/
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
@Deco
Deco / deepcopy.lua
Created October 31, 2012 05:38
Lua Non-recursive Deep-copy
--[[ deepcopy.lua
Deep-copy function for Lua - v0.2
==============================
- Does not overflow the stack.
- Maintains cyclic-references
- Copies metatables
- Maintains common upvalues between copied functions (for Lua 5.2 only)
TODO
@alkos333
alkos333 / gist:1771618
Created February 8, 2012 17:52
Read URL GET variable
// Given a query string "?to=email&why=because&first=John&Last=smith"
// getUrlVar("to") will return "email"
// getUrlVar("last") will return "smith"
// Slightly more concise and improved version based on http://www.jquery4u.com/snippets/url-parameters-jquery/
function getUrlVar(key){
var result = new RegExp(key + "=([^&]*)", "i").exec(window.location.search);
return result && unescape(result[1]) || "";
}
@joelambert
joelambert / README
Created June 1, 2011 11:03
Drop in replacements for setTimeout()/setInterval() that makes use of requestAnimationFrame() where possible for better performance
Drop in replace functions for setTimeout() & setInterval() that
make use of requestAnimationFrame() for performance where available
http://www.joelambert.co.uk
Copyright 2011, Joe Lambert.
Free to use under the MIT license.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php