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@keighl
keighl / NSString+Extras.m
Created December 19, 2012 13:37
Secure API Request From iOS to Rails
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h>
#import <CommonCrypto/CommonHMAC.h>
@interface NSString (Extras)
+ (NSString *)authSignatureWithToken:(NSString *)token;
@end
@implementation NSString (Extras)
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active February 27, 2025 10:00
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@klange
klange / _.md
Last active December 23, 2024 14:40
It's a résumé, as a readable and compilable C source file. Since Hacker News got here, this has been updated to be most of my actual résumé. This isn't a serious document, just a concept to annoy people who talk about recruiting and the formats they accept résumés in. It's also relatively representative of my coding style.

Since this is on Hacker News and reddit...

  • No, I don't distribute my résumé like this. A friend of mine made a joke about me being the kind of person who would do this, so I did (the link on that page was added later). My actual résumé is a good bit crazier.
  • I apologize for the use of _t in my types. I spend a lot of time at a level where I can do that; "reserved for system libraries? I am the system libraries".
  • Since people kept complaining, I've fixed the assignments of string literals to non-const char *s.
  • My use of type * name, however, is entirely intentional.
  • If you're using an older compiler, you might have trouble with the anonymous unions and the designated initializers - I think gcc 4.4 requires some extra braces to get them working together. Anything reasonably recent should work fine. Clang and gcc (newer than 4.4, at le
@bergantine
bergantine / Vagrantfile
Last active October 11, 2015 14:57
Vagrantfile for Django-Newproj. #vagrant #vagrantfile #django #python
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
# Every Vagrant virtual environment requires a box to build off of.
config.vm.box = "precise64"
# The url from where the 'config.vm.box' box will be fetched if it
@karlcow
karlcow / lxml-bug.py
Created August 4, 2012 15:21
Silly lxml bug in Python
>>>from lxml import etree
>>> xml = u'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><foo><bar/></foo>'
>>> etree.XML(xml)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2736, in lxml.etree.XML (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:54437)
File "parser.pxi", line 1569, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:82685)
ValueError: Unicode strings with encoding declaration are not supported.
>>> etree.HTML(xml)
Traceback (most recent call last):
@brandonb927
brandonb927 / osx-for-hackers.sh
Last active April 19, 2025 05:22
OSX for Hackers: Yosemite/El Capitan Edition. This script tries not to be *too* opinionated and any major changes to your system require a prompt. You've been warned.
#!/bin/sh
###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###
# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx
@jarosan
jarosan / elasticsearch.rake
Created July 16, 2012 20:37
Elasticsearch reindex task
# Run with: rake environment elasticsearch:reindex
namespace :elasticsearch do
desc "re-index elasticsearch"
task :reindex => :environment do
klass = Place
ENV['CLASS'] = klass.name
ENV['INDEX'] = new_index = klass.tire.index.name << '_' << Time.now.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S')
@rodw
rodw / backup-github.sh
Last active March 12, 2025 22:01
A simple script to backup an organization's GitHub repositories, wikis and issues.
#!/bin/bash
# A simple script to backup an organization's GitHub repositories.
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# NOTES:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# * Under the heading "CONFIG" below you'll find a number of configuration
# parameters that must be personalized for your GitHub account and org.
# Replace the `<CHANGE-ME>` strings with the value described in the comments
# (or overwrite those values at run-time by providing environment variables).
@dnishimura
dnishimura / Makefile.golang
Created June 20, 2012 17:51 — forked from yanatan16/Makefile.golang
Makefile for Golang projects
# Makefile for a go project
#
# Author: Jon Eisen
# site: joneisen.me
#
# Targets:
# all: Builds the code
# build: Builds the code
# fmt: Formats the source files
# clean: cleans the code
@andsens
andsens / bootstrap_homeshick.sh
Last active December 13, 2024 17:55
Script that can set up an entire user account with homeshick automatically
#!/bin/bash -ex
# Paste this into ssh
# curl -sL https://gist.github.com/andsens/2913223/raw/bootstrap_homeshick.sh | tar -xzO | /bin/bash -ex
# When forking, you can get the URL from the raw (<>) button.
### Set some command variables depending on whether we are root or not ###
# This assumes you use a debian derivate, replace with yum, pacman etc.
aptget='sudo apt-get'
chsh='sudo chsh'