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// ----------------------------------------------------------
// A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript
// without resorting to user-agent sniffing
// ----------------------------------------------------------
// If you're not in IE (or IE version is less than 5) then:
// ie === undefined
// If you're in IE (>=5) then you can determine which version:
// ie === 7; // IE7
// Thus, to detect IE:
// if (ie) {}
@paulirish
paulirish / rAF.js
Last active April 17, 2025 15:06
requestAnimationFrame polyfill
// http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
// http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/12/20/requestanimationframe-for-smart-er-animating
// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel
// MIT license
(function() {
var lastTime = 0;
var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];
@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

@beh
beh / gist:3549933
Created August 31, 2012 07:40
Add bookmark to pinbord.in with predefined tag, without user intervention
javascript:q=location.href;if(document.getSelection){d=document.getSelection();}else{d='';};p=document.title;void(open('https://pinboard.in/add?later=yes&noui=yes&jump=close&tags=TAGS GO HERE&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p),'Pinboard','toolbar=no,width=100,height=100'));
// Copy and paste the above into a new bookmark. Replace "TAGS GO HERE" with your tags. Presto!
@zenorocha
zenorocha / README.md
Last active February 10, 2025 07:42
A template for Github READMEs (Markdown) + Sublime Snippet

Project Name

TODO: Write a project description

Installation

TODO: Describe the installation process

Usage

@dypsilon
dypsilon / frontendDevlopmentBookmarks.md
Last active May 5, 2025 13:05
A badass list of frontend development resources I collected over time.
@emiller
emiller / git-mv-with-history
Last active December 1, 2024 18:57
git utility to move/rename file or folder and retain history with it.
#!/bin/bash
#
# git-mv-with-history -- move/rename file or folder, with history.
#
# Moving a file in git doesn't track history, so the purpose of this
# utility is best explained from the kernel wiki:
#
# Git has a rename command git mv, but that is just for convenience.
# The effect is indistinguishable from removing the file and adding another
# with different name and the same content.
@addyosmani
addyosmani / resources.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:00
Polymer resources for FITC

Web Components Can Do That?! extras

Thanks a ton for coming down to my talk, folks <33z. Your energy was amazing. This page has a few extra resources for you.

Slides

http://addyosmani.github.io/fitc-wccdt/

@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active May 12, 2025 23:22
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@jashkenas
jashkenas / semantic-pedantic.md
Last active May 7, 2025 01:36
Why Semantic Versioning Isn't

Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil