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tofumatt / Face Value writeup.markdown
Created October 25, 2012 18:05
Face Value writeup

Face Value

by tofumatt, Mozilla's Vespa Expert

Face Value is a currency conversion app that does things differently: instead of converting arbitrary amounts it shows you the actual denominations in the country you're visiting. It lets you think in your home currency even with a foreign currency in your pocket.

Face Value was built by Matthew Riley MacPherson and sarah ✈ semark. Both are remote-working, frequent travellers.

Why We Built Face Value

@jeffgca
jeffgca / server.py
Created July 17, 2012 19:07 — forked from anonymous/gist:3131316
Webapp Servage
#!/usr/bin/env python
import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer
from optparse import OptionParser
parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-p",
"--port",
@willkg
willkg / reverse_recruit_template.rst
Last active November 21, 2021 21:14
reverse recruit email template

Below find the "reverse recruit" template. I'm using it. So can you!

===

Hi!

I'm not currently looking for a job as I'm pretty happy at my current job.

However Mozilla is hiring into a variety of positions. Mozilla also has

@mranney
mranney / emoji_sad.txt
Created January 30, 2012 23:05
Why we can't process Emoji anymore
From: Chris DeSalvo <[email protected]>
Subject: Why we can't process Emoji anymore
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:49:20 -0800
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
--Apple-Mail=_6DEAA046-886A-4A03-8508-6FD077D18F8B
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=utf-8
@aronwoost
aronwoost / gist:1000402
Created May 31, 2011 12:11
Exclude private ip addresses from google analytics tracking
(function(){
var re = /(^127\.0\.0\.1)|(^10\.)|(^172\.1[6-9]\.)|(^172\.2[0-9]\.)|(^172\.3[0-1]\.)|(^192\.168\.)|localhost/;
if(re.test(window.location.hostname)) return;
var _gaq=[['_setAccount','UA-23156659-1'],['_trackPageview'],['_trackPageLoadTime']];
(function(d,t){var g=d.createElement(t),s=d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0];g.async=1;
g.src=('https:'==location.protocol?'//ssl':'//www')+'.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s)}(document,'script'));
})();
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tofumatt / Music To Buy.txt
Created January 29, 2010 14:18
Music I should check out
Kate Voegele
AIR (Pocket Symphony)
Hot Chip
Fever Ray
Beast (song = Mr. Hurricane)
Jennifer's Body (Soundtrack)
Supervoksen (Soundtrack)
J. Storm (song = 24 Hours A Day With You)
Cage The Elephant
Yukon Blonde