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mrcasals / gist:2788529
Created May 25, 2012 14:50
Rails: Reinstall postgreSQL via brew ang pg gem on Mac OS X
$ brew uninstall postgresql
$ gem uninstall pg # ALL OF THEM
$ rm -fr /usr/local/var/postgres
$ launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
$ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop -s -m fast # WE SHOULD HAVE ALL postgres SERVERS & PROCESSES STOPPED BY NOW
$ brew install postgres
$ env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg
$ echo "DONE." >> /dev/null
@paulmillr
paulmillr / active.md
Last active March 17, 2025 08:21
Most active GitHub users (by contributions). https://paulmillr.com

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The count of contributions (summary of Pull Requests, opened issues and commits) to public repos at GitHub.com from Wed, 21 Sep 2022 till Thu, 21 Sep 2023.

Because of GitHub search limitations, only 1000 first users according to amount of followers are included. If you are not in the list you don't have enough followers. See raw data and source code. Algorithm in pseudocode:

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@jgarber
jgarber / MIT-LICENSE.txt
Created April 4, 2012 14:57
Responsive video
Copyright (c) 2011 ZURB, http://www.zurb.com/
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<html>
<head>
<title>iOS 8 web app</title>
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@isaacsanders
isaacsanders / Equity.md
Created January 21, 2012 15:32
Joel Spolsky on Equity for Startups

This is a post by Joel Spolsky. The original post is linked at the bottom.

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer.

The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because "it was my idea," or because "I was more experienced" or anything else. Why? Because if I split the company 60-40, the company is going to fail when we argue ourselves to death. And if you ju

@mbostock
mbostock / .block
Last active April 6, 2023 11:58
Epicyclic Gearing
license: gpl-3.0
redirect: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/epicyclic-gearing
@njvitto
njvitto / deploy.rake
Created April 11, 2010 16:56 — forked from RSpace/deploy.rake
Rakefile to deploy and rollback to Heroku in two different environments (staging and production) for the same app
#Deploy and rollback on Heroku in staging and production
task :deploy_staging => ['deploy:set_staging_app', 'deploy:push', 'deploy:restart', 'deploy:tag']
task :deploy_production => ['deploy:set_production_app', 'deploy:push', 'deploy:restart', 'deploy:tag']
namespace :deploy do
PRODUCTION_APP = 'YOUR_PRODUCTION_APP_NAME_ON_HEROKU'
STAGING_APP = 'YOUR_STAGING_APP_NAME_ON_HEROKU'
task :staging_migrations => [:set_staging_app, :push, :off, :migrate, :restart, :on, :tag]
task :staging_rollback => [:set_staging_app, :off, :push_previous, :restart, :on]