Chris Pimlott pimlottc-gov

Engineer @ US Digital Service

minrk / Retina Figures.ipynb

Created August 9, 2012 04:37

2x plots for Retina displays with matplotlib and the IPython Notebook

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briancavalier / simple-promise-retry.js

Created February 24, 2011 18:35

A few general patterns for retries using promises

	function keepTrying(otherArgs, promise) {
	promise = promise\|\|new Promise();

	// try doing the important thing

	if(success) {
	promise.resolve(result);
	} else {
	setTimeout(function() {
	keepTrying(otherArgs, promise);

kriskowal / gist:593052

Created September 23, 2010 03:40

	var Q = require("q");
	var HTTP = require("q-http");

	function httpReadRetry(url, timeout, times) {
	return HTTP.read(url)
	.then(function (content) {
	return content;
	}, function (error) {
	if (times == 0)
	throw new Error("Can't read " + JSON.stringify(url));