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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:

This is a post by Joel Spolsky. The original post is linked at the bottom.

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer.

The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because "it was my idea," or because "I was more experienced" or anything else. Why? Because if I split the company 60-40, the company is going to fail when we argue ourselves to death. And if you ju

	"""
	When run in cron, automatically adds compliant alias names to local DNS.
	Use at your own risk.

	Patrick Fuller, 25 June 17
	"""
	import re
	import paramiko
	import pymongo

	console.log("Usage Syntax: scanScope(objectToScan, 'scanFor', ['whatToIgnore']); %c(whatToIgnore is optional and can be a string, or an array of strings) (scanScope can be shortened to ss)", 'color: red');
	var abortAtLevel = 20,
	callStack = 0,
	errArray = [],
	funArray = [],
	scanLoop = function (whatToScan, scanValue, whatToIgnore, parentTree) {
	scanValue = scanValue.toLowerCase();
	if (Array.isArray(whatToIgnore)) {
	whatToIgnore.forEach(function (ignoreVal) {
	ignoreVal = lowerCase(ignoreVal);

	"""Demonstrates how to construct and send raw Ethernet packets on the
	network.

	You probably need root privs to be able to bind to the network interface,
	e.g.:

	$ sudo python sendeth.py
	"""

	from socket import *

	<!doctype html>
	<html>
	<title>Flatten.js, General SVG Flattener</title>

	<head>
	<script>
	/*
	Random path and shape generator, flattener test base: https://jsfiddle.net/fjm9423q/embedded/result/
	Basic usage example: https://jsfiddle.net/nrjvmqur/embedded/result/

	from time import sleep
	from tornado.httpserver import HTTPServer
	from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
	from tornado.web import Application, asynchronous, RequestHandler
	from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool

	_workers = ThreadPool(10)

	def run_background(func, callback, args=(), kwds={}):
	def _callback(result):

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import base64
	import uuid

	print base64.b64encode(uuid.uuid4().bytes + uuid.uuid4().bytes)