Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
This guide is a first draft (that will end up in the official docs) on writing resilient code for production with the Couchbase Java SDK. At the end, the reader will be able to write code that withstands bugs, latency issues or anything else that can make their application fail.
Note that lots of concepts can be applied for both synchronous and asynchronous access. When necessary, both patterns are discussed separately. Also, the focus is on database interaction, but if you are using RxJava as part of your stack you can apply most of the principles there as well (and should!).
When working with Observables, it is important to understand the difference between cold and hot. Cold Observables will start to emit events once a Observer subscribes, and will do it "fresh" for each Observer. Hot Observables instead are starting to emit data as soon as it becomes available, and will return the same (or parts of the same)
| # Inspired by http://rarlindseysmash.com/posts/stupid-programmer-tricks-and-star-wars-gifs | |
| # via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6633490 | |
| # Requires | |
| # * a reasonably recent ffmpeg suite | |
| # * Graphicsmagick or ImageMagick | |
| # * optionally: Gifsicle | |
| # * an input video file | |
| # Usage: | |
| # python gifgif.py a_video_file.avi |
This article is now published on my website: A one-off git repo server.
| (function(window){var i,$sound,$buttonGroup;var $sounds=$(".sound");var clientId=require("config").get("client_id");var oauthToken=require("lib/connect").getAuthToken();var conversionHelper=require("lib/helpers/conversion-helper");var $downloadButton,size;var params,downloadUrl,onSuccess;for(i=$sounds.length-1;i>=0;i--){$sound=$($sounds[i]);var soundcloudUrl="https://soundcloud.com"+($sound.find(".soundTitle__title").attr("href")||window.location.pathname);params={url:soundcloudUrl,client_id:clientId};onSuccess=function($sound){return function(data){var params={client_id:clientId};downloadUrl=require("lib/url").stringify({query:params},data.stream_url+".mp3");$buttonGroup=$($sound.find(".sound__soundActions .sc-button-group")[0]);size=$buttonGroup.find(".sc-button:first")[0].className.match(/sc-button-((?:small)|(?:medium))/)[1];$downloadButton=$('<a class="sc-button sc-button-download sc-button-icon sc-button-responsive">Download</a>').attr({title:"Download this sound ("+conversionHelper.bytesToMB(data.origi |
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| Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE <YOUR_URL_HERE> | |
| Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified | |
| copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long | |
| as the name is changed. | |
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| ### | |
| Module dependencies | |
| ### | |
| require.paths.unshift "#{__dirname}/lib/support/express-csrf/" | |
| require.paths.unshift "#{__dirname}/lib/support/node_hash/lib/" | |
| express = require 'express' | |
| app = module.exports = express.createServer() | |
| RedisStore = require 'connect-redis' |
| // ---------------------------------------------------------- | |
| // A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript | |
| // without resorting to user-agent sniffing | |
| // ---------------------------------------------------------- | |
| // If you're not in IE (or IE version is less than 6) then: | |
| // ie === 0 | |
| // If you're in IE (>=6) then you can determine which version: | |
| // ie === 7; // IE7 | |
| // Thus, to detect IE: | |
| // if (ie) {} |
