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Useful names

List of names that tend to be useful in programming. On their own, or for building names.

A thesaurus is also useful.

Things

action, operation
attribute, property
buffer, queue

Reproduction of a real asset allocation glide path chart using D3 and D3FC.

It shows the investment fund moving towards safer assets as the target date nears.

Uses ES6 features, so you need a modern browser.

Companion gist for blog post: Mapping currency strength changes with D3

Displays currency strengthening or weakening against other world currencies, between a reference date in the past and today.

Try it out - click to change the base country, use the picker to change the reference date. Data is available from the start of 2000.

Uses ES6 features, so you need a modern browser.

Data sources

World map: https://github.com/topojson/world-atlas

Companion gist for blog post: Mapping currency strength changes with D3

Displays currency strengthening or weakening against other world currencies, between a reference date in the past and today.

Try it out - click to change the base country, use the picker to change the reference date. Data is available from the start of 2000.

Uses ES6 features, so you need a modern browser.

Improvements over v1

Optionally use currencylayer for data, which has more countries (see "Data sources" below)

Displays investment compound annual growth rates over all time frames. Rows represent start years from 1986, columns represent number of years the investment was held for.

Inspired by the Portfolio Charts website's heat map - calculator, explanation.

FTSE All-Share Index yearly return data from http://www.swanlowpark.co.uk/ftseannual.jsp

References for CAGR calculation in code comments.

	# manually
	git remote update origin --prune
	git branch -vv \| grep "gone]"
	git branch -d theBranchName anotherBranch andAnotherBranch

	# automatically
	git branch -vv \| grep "gone]" \| awk '{print $1}' \| xargs git branch -d

	const { concat, mapKeys, merge, uniq } = require('lodash');

	/**
	* Tweaked from original by Mike Engel
	* https://github.com/jantimon/html-webpack-plugin/issues/782#issuecomment-331229728
	*
	* Use this with multiple Webpack configurations that generate different builds
	* for modern and legacy browsers. But use the same instance of the plugin in both configurations.
	*
	* It keeps track of assets seen in each build configuration, and appends script tags for

	// Based on https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf, sections 3 mainly, 4, 4.3
	// Also see: https://webkit.org/blog/8048/what-spectre-and-meltdown-mean-for-webkit/
	const array1 = [1, 2, 3];
	const array1_size = 3;

	const array2_size = (64 * 1024) / 8;
	const array2 = new Array(array2_size); // 8192 empty 8-byte entries = 64KB. 64KB is 256*256

	function run() {
	setup();

	git gc
	git count-objects -vH

	HTTP/1.1 200 OK
	Content-Encoding: gzip