domenic

"use strict";

// `f` is assumed to sporadically fail with `TemporaryNetworkError` instances.
// If one of those happens, we want to retry until it doesn't.
// If `f` fails with something else, then we should re-throw: we don't know how to handle that, and it's a
// sign something went wrong. Since `f` is a good promise-returning function, it only ever fulfills or rejects;
// it has no synchronous behavior (e.g. throwing).
function dontGiveUp(f) {
    return f().then(
        undefined, // pass through success

jmwhittaker

Connect to your Mac's localhost from within a VMWare virtual machine.

- Boot up VMware and fire up your VM (i'm using Windows 7)
- Make sure that the VM is using NAT
- Fire up the command prompt in Windows and type "ipconfig". IN the resulting text look for your IPv4 address. It will be something like 192.168.xxx.xxx
- Now go to your browser in your VM and type that ip address into the url bar but change the last set of digits to be 2 (or 1).
- so as an example if your ip was found to be 192.168.213.200 change it to be 192.168.213.2
- Assuming that your localhost is running on your mac you should get your localhost in your VM browser.
- If you need to add a non standard port number on the end like 8090 go ahead and do so.

isaacs

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh