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GitHub OAuth Busy Developer's Guide

This is a quick guide to OAuth2 support in GitHub for developers. This is still experimental and could change at any moment. This Gist will serve as a living document until it becomes finalized at Develop.GitHub.com.

OAuth2 is a protocol that lets external apps request authorization to private details in your GitHub account without getting your password. All developers need to register their application before getting started.

Web Application Flow

Redirect to this link to request GitHub access:

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

This article is now published on my website: Prefer Subshells for Context.

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	;; Inspired by George Jahad's version: http://georgejahad.com/clojure/debug-repl.html

	(defmacro local-bindings
	"Produces a map of the names of local bindings to their values."
	[]
	(let [symbols (map key @clojure.lang.Compiler/LOCAL_ENV)]
	(zipmap (map (fn [sym] `(quote ~sym)) symbols) symbols)))

	(declare locals)
	(defn eval-with-locals

	(add-to-list 'inf-ruby-implementations '("pry" . "pry"))
	(setq inf-ruby-default-implementation "pry")
	(setq inf-ruby-first-prompt-pattern "^\\[[0-9]+\\] pry\\((.)\\)> ")
	(setq inf-ruby-prompt-pattern "^\\[[0-9]+\\] pry\\((.)\\)[>\"'] *")

	! urxvt
	URxvt*buffered: true
	URxvt*cursorBlink: true
	URxvt*underlineColor: yellow
	URxvt*font: xft:inconsolata:size=10:antialias=true
	URxvt*depth: 32
	URxvt*borderless: 1
	URxvt*scrollBar: false
	URxvt*loginShell: true
	Urxvt*secondaryScroll: true # Enable Shift-PageUp/Down in screen

	# Rake Quick Reference
	# by Greg Houston
	# http://ghouston.blogspot.com/2008/07/rake-quick-reference.html


	# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Running Rake
	# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# running rake from the command-line:
	# rake --help

	-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
	SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
	ORDER BY query_start desc;

	-- show running queries (9.2)
	SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'

	#!/bin/bash
	################
	# Description:
	# This script will take screenshot of your desktop
	# or only active window ( running with -u param ),
	# copy it to /Dropbox/Public/share/ with uniq name
	# and save path to clipboard
	#################
	# Requirements:
	# Dropbox