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require 'digest/md5'
def gfm(text)
# Extract pre blocks
extractions = {}
text.gsub!(%r{<pre>.*?</pre>}m) do |match|
md5 = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(match)
extractions[md5] = match
"{gfm-extraction-#{md5}}"
end
@danmackinlay
danmackinlay / supervisord.sh
Created August 27, 2009 07:07
an init.d script for supervisord
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: supervisord
# Required-Start: $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Example initscript
# Description: This file should be used to construct scripts to be
# placed in /etc/init.d.
@kenzie
kenzie / quicksilver_score.php
Created April 29, 2010 11:26
Quicksilver string ranking algorithm in PHP
<?
// Quicksilver Score
//
// A port of the Quicksilver string ranking algorithm
// (re-ported from Javascript to PHP by Kenzie Campbell)
// http://route19.com/logbook/view/quicksilver-score-in-php
//
// score("hello world","axl") //=> 0.0
// score("hello world","ow") //=> 0.6
@eykd
eykd / python_evolution.py
Created January 20, 2011 21:18
Profiling the factorial implementations at http://metaleks.net/programming/the-evolution-of-a-python-programmer/comment-page-1 with results for factorial(10) run 100,000 times.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Profiling The Evolution of the Python Programmer
Based on the code offered in good humor at
<http://metaleks.net/programming/the-evolution-of-a-python-programmer>.
I thought it would be fun to profile the various approaches to a
factorial implementation offered by Aleks. My attempt below.
I couldn't profile the EXPERT PROGRAMMERS or the Unix Programmer, as I
@fbuchinger
fbuchinger / .picasa.ini
Created July 9, 2011 18:26
.picasa.ini decoded
#==============================================================
# .picasa.ini FILE STRUCTURE
#
# reverse-engineered by Franz Buchinger <[email protected]>
# licensed to the public domain
#
# Picasa Version(s): 3.8.0
#
# Changelog:
# v0.1: initial release
anonymous
anonymous / gist:1406238
Created November 29, 2011 20:09
Originally:
https://gist.github.com/7565976a89d5da1511ce
Hi Donald (and Martin),
Thanks for pinging me; it's nice to know Typesafe is keeping tabs on this, and I
appreciate the tone. This is a Yegge-long response, but given that you and
Martin are the two people best-situated to do anything about this, I'd rather
err on the side of giving you too much to think about. I realize I'm being very
critical of something in which you've invested a great deal (both financially
@hrldcpr
hrldcpr / tree.md
Last active January 6, 2025 22:43
one-line tree in python

One-line Tree in Python

Using Python's built-in defaultdict we can easily define a tree data structure:

def tree(): return defaultdict(tree)

That's it!

@jlong
jlong / uri.js
Created April 20, 2012 13:29
URI Parsing with Javascript
var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";
parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port; // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search; // => "?search=test"
parser.hash; // => "#hash"
parser.host; // => "example.com:3000"
import XMonad
main = xmonad defaultConfig
{ modMask = mod4Mask -- Use Super instead of Alt
, terminal = "urxvt"
-- more changes
}
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active May 13, 2025 17:54
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD