FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.
One of my favorite past times is to look at the notebooks of famous scientists. Da Vinci's notebook is well known, but there plenty others. Worshipping Da Vinci like no other, I bought a Think/Create/Record journal, used it mostly to keep jot down random thoughts and take notes. This was great in the beginning, but the conformity of lines drove me nuts. Only moleskines made blank notebooks, so I had to buy one.
At the same time I started a freelance project. The project itself is irrelevant, but suffice to say it was very complex and spanned several months. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to use the moleskine. Looking back, all my entries fell under few categories:
| fizz = [nil, nil, "Fizz"].cycle | |
| buzz = [nil, nil, nil, nil, "Buzz"].cycle | |
| numbers = 1..100 | |
| numbers.zip(fizz, buzz) do |n, f, b| | |
| fizzbuzz = [f, b].join | |
| puts(fizzbuzz.empty? ? n : fizzbuzz) | |
| end |
| # Terminal Progress Indicators. Four examples are included: percentage, | |
| # spinner, progress bar, and combined. This script has been tested on | |
| # Mac OS X 10.8 with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, and 1.9.3 | |
| class Spinner | |
| include Enumerable | |
| def each | |
| loop do | |
| yield '|' | |
| yield '/' |
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| Version 2, December 2004 | |
| Copyright (C) 2011 Mathieu 'p01' Henri - http://www.p01.org/releases/ | |
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| copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long | |
| as the name is changed. | |
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