johnbaums

swatch <- function(x) {
  # x: a vector of colours (hex, numeric, or string)
  par(mai=c(0.2, max(strwidth(x, "inch") + 0.4, na.rm = TRUE), 0.2, 0.4))
  barplot(rep(1, length(x)), col=rev(x), space = 0.1, axes=FALSE, 
          names.arg=rev(x), cex.names=0.8, horiz=T, las=1)  
}
 
# Example:
# swatch(colours()[1:10])
# swatch(iwanthue(5))

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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telent

App configuration in environment variables: for and against

For (some of these as per the 12 factor principles) 

1) they are are easy to change between deploys without changing any code

2) unlike config files, there is little chance of them being checked
into the code repo accidentally

3) unlike custom config files, or other config mechanisms such as Java

selenamarie

Ideal Postgres environment

Documentation

• Documented replication topology
• Documented network topology
• Documented interface topology - including users, passwords, connection estimates, load balancers, connection proxies
• Documented procedure, schedule for failover and testing
• Documented procedure, schedule for disaster recovery and testing

vorburger

#!/usr/bin/python

# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2009-May/081959.html
# from http://askubuntu.com/questions/4499/how-can-i-diagnose-debug-maximum-number-of-clients-reached-x-errors/6639#6639

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

client_sockets = []
match = 0

0xabad1dea

Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it

I want to be extremely clear about three things. First, this is my personal opinion – insert full standard disclaimer. Second, this is not a condemnation of everyone at RSA, present and past. I assume most of them are pretty okay, and that the problem is confined to a few specific points in the company. However, “unknown problem people making major decisions at RSA” is a bit unwieldy, so I will just say RSA. Third, I'm not calling for a total boycott on RSA. I work almost literally across the street from them and I don’t want to get beat up by roving gangs of cryptographers at the local Chipotle.

RSA's denial published last night is utter codswallop that denies pretty much everything in the world except the actual allegations put forth by Reuters and hinted at for months by [other sources](http://li

dualbus

#!/bin/bash

trap 'rm -rf "$tempdir"' EXIT
tempdir=$(mktemp -d)
cd "$tempdir" || exit 1

printf '%s\n' \
  '(return 2>/dev/null); echo $?' \
  > bash_return

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

xguse

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#              bash 4.1.5(1)     Linux Ubuntu 10.04           Date : 2011-10-04
#
# _______________|  noise : ambient Brown noise generator (cf. white noise).
#
#           Usage:  noise  [minutes=59]  [band-pass freq center=1786]  [wave]
#                          ^minutes can be any positive integer.
#                           Command "noise 1" will display peak-level meter.
#
#    Dependencies:  play (from sox package)

quchen

13:15 <xQuasar>      | HASKELL IS FOR FUCKIN FAGGOTS. YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF 
                     | FUCKIN PUSSIES
13:15 <xQuasar>      | JAVASCRIPT FOR LIFE FAGS
13:16 <luite>        | hello
13:16 <ChongLi>      | somebody has a mental illness!
13:16 <merijn>       | Wow...I suddenly see the error of my ways and feel 
                     | compelled to write Node.js!
13:16 <genisage>     | hi
13:16 <luite>        | you might be pleased to learn that you can compile 
                     | haskell to javascript now