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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

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As a strategic consulting firm focused on Innovation and Growth Strategies, I wanted to take an opportunity to introduce myself and our firm.   I understand that you and your colleagues may be in the midst of evaluating new initiatives in this area, hence the timing of this introduction.
 
I would like to present Harrison Hayes‘ approach to the creation and validation of market growth strategies and how our methodologies may fit your objectives at Twitter.
 
At Harrison Hayes, our suite of service includes: 

Whitespace Opportunity Identification / Disruptive Ideation  
Market Access/Market Landscaping / Emerging Market Analysis  
Technology Scouting / New Product Validation
Market Adjacency Mapping

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# source 'http://rubygems.org'
source :gemcutter

gem 'rails', '3.1.0.beta1'

# Asset template engines
gem 'json'
gem 'sass'
gem 'coffee-script'
gem 'uglifier'

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class LcmFinder
  attr_accessor :seen, :factors

  def initialize
    @seen = Set.new
    @factors = Hash.new(0)
  end

  def factor(n)
    cur = n

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class Numeric
  SCALE_TO_WORD = Hash.new do |h, i|
    " * 10^#{i * 3}"
  end.merge({ 1  => " thousand",
              2  => " million",
              3  => " billion",
              4  => " trillion"
            })
  # in my unscientific test, no one really found names beyond trillion useful.

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ls .rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2010.02/gems/  | perl -ne 's/(.*)-[.\d]+/$1/; print' | sort | uniq >~/gems

...change to a different ruby...
cat ~/gems | xargs gem install 

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main = print (take 1000 hamming) 
hamming = 1 : map (2*) hamming ~~ map (3*) hamming ~~ map (5*) hamming 
  where 
    xxs@(x:xs) ~~ yys@(y:ys)    -- To merge two streams: 
        | x==y = (x : xs~~ys)   --  if the heads are common, take that 
        | x<y  = (x : xs~~yys)  --  otherwise, take the smaller one 
        | x>y  = (y : xxs~~ys)  --    and proceed to merge the rest

(defun n-hammings (twos threes fives tail n out) 
  (if (= n 0) 

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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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module Stop
  module CantTouchThis
    def self.included(mod)

      %w[instance_variable_get instance_variable_set].each do |m|
        send(:protected, m)
      end

      eigenclass = class << mod; self; end
      %w[const_set class_variable_get class_variable_set public_class_method attr attr_reader attr_writer].each do |m|

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;; Helpful macro function
(defun my-macro-query (arg)
  "Prompt for input using minibuffer during kbd macro execution.
    With prefix argument, allows you to select what prompt string to use.
    If the input is non-empty, it is inserted at point."
  (interactive "P")
  (let* ((query (lambda () (kbd-macro-query t)))
	 (prompt (if arg (read-from-minibuffer "PROMPT: ") "Input: "))
	 (input (unwind-protect
		    (progn