evandrix

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Crypt::Eksblowfish::Bcrypt;
use Crypt::Random;

$password = 'bigtest';
$encrypted = encrypt_password($password);
print "$password is encrypted as $encrypted\n";

print "Yes the password is $password\n" if check_password($password, $encrypted);
print "No the password is not smalltest\n" if !check_password('smalltest', $encrypted);

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

h3xx

#!comment: This is a list of the top 100,000 most frequently-used English words
#!comment: according to Wiktionary.
#!comment:
#!comment: It was compiled in August 2005 and coalesced into a handy list for
#!comment: use in John the Ripper.
#!comment:
#!comment:
#!comment: Pull date: Sun Jan 15 22:03:54 2012 GMT
#!comment:
#!comment: Sources:

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

gavinlaking

require "bcrypt"
require "benchmark"

password = "My_Rea11y-B1G_S3cr3t"
salt = "2d3ec54c5fa27b9e9d8a3e7f1ed9f7f7c4b1c7e2f7da5c"

stretches = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ,8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20]
stretches.each do |cost|
  puts "\n\n-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-"
  puts "Cost = #{cost}"

tyilo

/* JavaScript password hash generator.
 * $Id: pwd.js,v 1.5 2004/10/09 09:41:38 emikulic Exp $
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2004, Emil Mikulic.
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 * are met:
 * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright

mikesmullin

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# script:  watch
# author:  Mike Smullin <[email protected]>
# license: GPLv3
# description:
#   watches the given path for changes
#   and executes a given command when changes occur
# usage:
#   watch <path> <cmd...>
#

chilts

var request = require('request');
var unzip   = require('unzip');
var csv2    = require('csv2');

request.get('http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip')
    .pipe(unzip.Parse())
    .on('entry', function (entry) {
        entry.pipe(csv2()).on('data', console.log);
    })
;

adaugherity

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use RGB mode for Display
# see http://embdev.net/topic/284710

require 'base64'

data=`ioreg -l -d0 -w 0 -r -c AppleDisplay`

edids=data.scan(/IODisplayEDID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i).flatten
vendorids=data.scan(/DisplayVendorID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten

nueh

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""Utilities for writing code that runs on Python 2 and 3"""

import operator
import sys
import types

__author__ = "Benjamin Peterson <[email protected]>"
__version__ = "1.2.0"