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mrchess / gist:7678104

Created November 27, 2013 15:59

nl2br coffee plugin

	$.extend
	nl2br: (str, is_xhtml = false) ->
	breakTag = (if (is_xhtml or typeof is_xhtml is "undefined") then "" else "<br>")
	(str + "").replace /([^>\r\n]?)(\r\n\|\n\r\|\r\|\n)/g, "$1" + breakTag + "$2"

mrchess / gist:5373531

Created April 12, 2013 17:07

http://nickchirls.com/my-time-at-lehman

	My Time at Lehman

	I started at Lehman Brothers on June 1st, 2007 as a first year analyst. It was my first job out of college. Dick Fuld, the CEO at the time, publicly discussed “the road to two-hundred,” in which he would not retire until the stock reached $200 per share, almost three times the price when I arrived. Everyone at the firm believed this as though it were a fact – that there was something special about Lehman Brothers stock – it always went up.

	I joined Lehman for a few reasons. The first was personal. My mother worked on Wall Street and passed away when I was a teenager. I felt, somewhat misguidedly, as though following in her footsteps would bring me closer to her. The other reasons were simpler. I had been interested in the stock market as a kid (though I went to work trading bonds and credit derivatives), I wanted to make good money, and I thought maybe, just maybe, it would be a bit of fun.

	Investment banking was a default career of sorts in 2007, something for the kids who didn’t quite k

mrchess / gist:5032262

Created February 25, 2013 18:56

URL parameter reader

	###
	A simple global function to help read URL parameters.
	ex. www.google.com?value=1 -- URLY.get('value')
	###
	window.URLY =
	get : (key) ->
	key = key.replace(/[\[]/, "\\[").replace(/[\]]/, "\\]")
	regexS = "[\\?&]" + key + "=([^&#]*)"
	regex = new RegExp(regexS)
	results = regex.exec(window.location.href)

mrchess / gist:4489940

Created January 9, 2013 02:06 — forked from pithyless/gist:1208841

Install Python

$ brew install readline sqlite gdbm
$ brew install python --universal --framework
$ python --version
Python 2.7

Symlinks...

mrchess / box-shadow.html

Created November 13, 2012 17:09 — forked from ocean90/box-shadow.html

CSS3 Box Shadow, only top/right/bottom/left and all

mrchess / gist:1820380

Created February 13, 2012 20:57

Exposes a variable openHTTPs which keeps track of how many XMLHttpRequests you have active.

	<script>
	(function() {
	var oldOpen = XMLHttpRequest.prototype.open;
	window.openHTTPs = 0;
	XMLHttpRequest.prototype.open = function(method, url, async, user, pass) {
	window.openHTTPs++;
	this.addEventListener("readystatechange", function() {
	if(this.readyState == 4) {
	window.openHTTPs--;
	}

mrchess / gist:1757758

Created February 7, 2012 06:46

copy of vm install sh - windows vm osx

Justin Ho mrchess