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@albertstill
albertstill / enigma_machine.rb
Last active February 25, 2021 18:46
Understand how the Enigma machine works with 30 lines of Ruby
Plugboard = Hash[*('A'..'Z').to_a.sample(20)]
Plugboard.merge!(Plugboard.invert)
Plugboard.default_proc = proc { |_, key| key }
def build_a_rotor
Hash[('A'..'Z').zip(('A'..'Z').to_a.shuffle)]
end
ROTOR_1, ROTOR_2, ROTOR_3 = build_a_rotor, build_a_rotor, build_a_rotor
@jvns
jvns / interview-questions.md
Last active November 3, 2024 03:54
A list of questions you could ask while interviewing

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

@jswanner
jswanner / migrate.rake
Last active August 15, 2024 15:15
Rolls back migrations in current branch not present in specified branch.
desc 'rolls back migrations in current branch not present in other'
task :rollback_branch_migrations, [:other_branch] do |t, args|
load "#{Dir.pwd}/Rakefile"
branch_migrations = BranchMigrations.new(args.other_branch)
puts ['Rollback the following migrations', branch_migrations, 'y,n? ']
next if %w[no n NO N].include?(STDIN.gets.chomp)
Rake::Task['environment'].invoke
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Wraps curl with a custom-drawn progress bar. Use it just like curl:
#
# $ curl-progress -O http://example.com/file.tar.gz
# $ curl-progress http://example.com/file.tar.gz > file.tar.gz
#
# All arguments to the program are passed directly to curl. Define your
# custom progress bar in the `print_progress` function.
#
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# script/whitespace
#
# Strips whitespace from any files modified in git
# Also:
# - converts tabs to spaces
# - ensures a single newline at the end
class WhitespaceProcessor
def self.process(code)
@amacdougall
amacdougall / .git-completion.bash
Created July 11, 2012 15:05
Change .git-completion.bash to ignore remotes
#!bash
#
# bash/zsh completion support for core Git.
#
# Copyright (C) 2006,2007 Shawn O. Pearce <[email protected]>
# Conceptually based on gitcompletion (http://gitweb.hawaga.org.uk/).
# Distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0.
#
# The contained completion routines provide support for completing:
#
@rtomayko
rtomayko / gist:2601550
Created May 5, 2012 10:58
Open beautiful git-scm.com manual pages w/ git help -w
# The new git-scm.com site includes man pages designed for pleasant viewing in a web browser:
#
# http://git-scm.com/docs
#
# The commands below can be used to configure git to open these pages when
# using `git help -w <command>' from the command line. Just enter the config
# commands in your shell to modify your ~/.gitconfig file.
# Create a new browser command and configure help -w to use it.
git config --global browser.gitscm.cmd "/bin/sh -c 'open http://git-scm.com/docs/\$(basename \$1 .html)' --"
class ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper
def draw(routes_name)
instance_eval(File.read(Rails.root.join("config/routes/#{routes_name}.rb")))
end
end
BCX::Application.routes.draw do
draw :api
draw :account
draw :session
@fnichol
fnichol / Vagrantfile
Created April 9, 2012 18:40
Hack to set vagrant host name (better sol'n is middleware, just wait)
Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
# Make the VM host name the name of the containing folder by default
host = File.basename(Vagrant::Environment.new.root_path || __FILE__).gsub(/_/, '-')
config.vm.host_name = "#{host}.vagrantup.com"
end
@drnic
drnic / Guardfile
Created April 5, 2012 06:45
An example Guardfile with the works for a Rails app
guard 'rspec', :version => 2 do
watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb$})
watch(%r{^lib/(.+)\.rb$}) { |m| "spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
watch('spec/spec_helper.rb') { "spec" }
# Rails example
watch(%r{^app/(.+)\.rb$}) { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
watch(%r{^app/(.*)(\.erb|\.haml)$}) { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}#{m[2]}_spec.rb" }
watch(%r{^app/controllers/(.+)_(controller)\.rb$}) { |m| ["spec/routing/#{m[1]}_routing_spec.rb", "spec/#{m[2]}s/#{m[1]}_#{m[2]}_spec.rb", "spec/acceptance/#{m[1]}_spec.rb"] }
watch(%r{^spec/support/(.+)\.rb$}) { "spec" }