dcreager

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Author: Douglas Creager <[email protected]>
# This file is placed into the public domain.

# Calculates the current version number.  If possible, this is the
# output of “git describe”, modified to conform to the versioning
# scheme that setuptools uses.  If “git describe” returns an error
# (most likely because we're in an unpacked copy of a release tarball,
# rather than in a git working copy), then we fall back on reading the
# contents of the RELEASE-VERSION file.

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

marktheunissen

This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.

piscisaureus

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

KartikTalwar

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

• a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
• H: preserves hard-links
• A: preserves ACLs

bnoordhuis

var fs = require('fs');
var net = require('net');
var http = require('http');
var https = require('https');

var httpAddress = '/path/to/http.sock';
var httpsAddress = '/path/to/https.sock';
fs.unlinkSync(httpAddress);
fs.unlinkSync(httpsAddress);

will-moore

"""
This script searches for Images, using database queries queries generated
from a number of parameters.
"""

import omero.scripts as scripts
from omero.gateway import BlitzGateway
from omero.rtypes import *

from datetime import datetime

kzap

# generate your private key, put the public key on the server you will be connecting to
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ./my_key

# generate the password/secret you will store encrypted in the .travis.yml and use to encrypt your private key
cat /dev/urandom | head -c 10000 | openssl sha1 > ./secret

# encrypt your private key using your secret password
openssl aes-256-cbc -pass "file:./secret" -in ./my_key -out ./my_key.enc -a

# download your Travis-CI public key via the API. eg: https://api.travis-ci.org/repos/travis-ci/travis-ci/key

sbesson

[{
    "name" : "Foo001",
    "desc" : "A foo was fooed when the food was few.",
    "set" : [{
            "name" : "Foo001_Sub1",
            "desc" : "Substandard substitutes with stubbed tubs."
        }, {
            "name" : "Foo001_Sub2",
            "desc" : "Strained strange trains stray starkly."
        }, {

martijnvermaat

SSH agent forwarding and screen

When connecting to a remote server via SSH it is often convenient to use SSH agent forwarding so that you don't need a separate keypair on that server for connecting to further servers.

This is enabled by adding the

ForwardAgent yes

option to any of your Host entries in ~/.ssh/config (or alternatively with the -A option). Don't set this option in a wildcard Host * section since any user on the remote server that can bypass file permissions can now als use keys loaded in your SSH agent. So only use this with hosts you trust.