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@paulirish
paulirish / rAF.js
Last active April 17, 2025 15:06
requestAnimationFrame polyfill
// http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
// http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/12/20/requestanimationframe-for-smart-er-animating
// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel
// MIT license
(function() {
var lastTime = 0;
var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];
@zen4ever
zen4ever / gist:2327666
Created April 7, 2012 11:13
Print available video capture formats on iOS
AVCaptureVideoDataOutput *videoOutput = [[AVCaptureVideoDataOutput alloc] init];
NSDictionary *formats = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"kCVPixelFormatType_1Monochrome", [NSNumber numberWithInt:kCVPixelFormatType_1Monochrome],
@"kCVPixelFormatType_2Indexed", [NSNumber numberWithInt:kCVPixelFormatType_2Indexed],
@"kCVPixelFormatType_4Indexed", [NSNumber numberWithInt:kCVPixelFormatType_4Indexed],
@"kCVPixelFormatType_8Indexed", [NSNumber numberWithInt:kCVPixelFormatType_8Indexed],
@"kCVPixelFormatType_1IndexedGray_WhiteIsZero", [NSNumber numberWithInt:kCVPixelFormatType_1IndexedGray_WhiteIsZero],
@"kCVPixelFormatType_2IndexedGray_WhiteIsZero", [NSNumber numberWithInt:kCVPixelFormatType_2IndexedGray_WhiteIsZero],
@"kCVPixelFormatType_4IndexedGray_WhiteIsZero", [NSNumber numberWithInt:kCVPixelFormatType_4IndexedGray_WhiteIsZero],
@vasanthk
vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active April 24, 2025 13:48
System Design Cheatsheet

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

  1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system
  • User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
    • Who is going to use it?
    • How are they going to use it?