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General Books ---------------------------

"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Christmas_Pageant_Ever

• One of my [JNP] favorites. I remember laughing hysterically at the description of the kids playing a game based on slamming the garage door

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require "rake"
Gem::Specification.new do |s|
  s.name        = "GEM_NAME"
  s.version     = "0.1.0"
  s.summary     = "GEM_SUMMARY (short)"
  s.description = "GEM_DESCRIPTION (longer)"
  s.homepage    = "http://example.com/GEM_NAME"

  s.authors = ["GEM_AUTHOR_NAME"]
  s.email   = "GEM_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

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/* 
 * Fabrizio Calderan, twitter @fcalderan, 2010.11.02
 * I had an idea: could Inception movie be explained by a few javascript closures 
 * and variable resolution scope (just for fun)?
 * 
 * Activate javascript console =)
 */

<script>
console.group("inception movie");

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Places to Visit and Things To Do for Nerds Visiting Chicago

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>  - In ruby 1.8.x, what is the functional difference between rb_thread_schedule and rb_thread_select?

rb_thread_schedule() is the guts of the thread scheduler, it traverses
over the linked list of threads (several times) to find the next one
to switch into. The function is long (250 lines) and messy, and covers
all the combinations of thread status (RUNNABLE, TO_KILL, STOPPED,
KILLED) and wait state (FD, SELECT, TIME, JOIN, PID).

If there are no threads doing i/o or waiting on a timeout,
rb_thread_schedule() picks another thread from the list (considering

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In response to all the responses to:

http://twitter.com/rtomayko/status/1155906157

You should never do this in a source file included with your library,
app, or tests:

    require 'rubygems'

The system I use to manage my $LOAD_PATH is not your library/app/tests

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#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'mongrel'

# Add the request handler directory to the load path.
# Files in the 'app/controllers' dir will be mapped against the first segment
# of a URL
$LOAD_PATH.unshift( File.join( File.dirname( __FILE__ ) , 'app/controllers' ) )

PORT = 4000

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var xyz = {};
xyz.receiverURL = '.res/save-proxy-image.php';
xyz.resizeImage = function(img, dstw, dsth, fit) {
	try {
		var w = dstw;
		var h = dsth;
		if (img.naturalWidth === 0 || img.naturalHeight === 0)
			return null;
		if (img.naturalWidth > dstw || img.naturalHeight > dsth) {
			if (fit) {

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# estimate the duration of an ALTER TABLE statement in mysql
# this code estimates the worst case, as most of the time, an ALTER will result in a table that is smaller than the original

percentage = 0
interval = 10
while(true) do
  sleep(interval)
  new_percentage = (File.size('#sql-5316_1a.ibd')*1.0 / File.size('moves.ibd')*1.0)
  change = new_percentage - percentage
  intervals = 1.0/change

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From bb2a78858cffa7c6937642986e9aca1a4f862c0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilya Grigorik <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:46:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] async rails3

---
 Gemfile                               |    6 ++++++
 app/controllers/widgets_controller.rb |    6 ++++++
 app/models/widget.rb                  |    2 ++
 config.ru                             |    1 +