vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

rondy

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.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

hernamesbarbara

Principles of Adult Behavior

1. Be patient. No matter what.
2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
4. Expand your sense of the possible.
5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
6. Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
7. Tolerate ambiguity.
8. Laugh at yourself frequently.

quchen

13:15 <xQuasar>      | HASKELL IS FOR FUCKIN FAGGOTS. YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF 
                     | FUCKIN PUSSIES
13:15 <xQuasar>      | JAVASCRIPT FOR LIFE FAGS
13:16 <luite>        | hello
13:16 <ChongLi>      | somebody has a mental illness!
13:16 <merijn>       | Wow...I suddenly see the error of my ways and feel 
                     | compelled to write Node.js!
13:16 <genisage>     | hi
13:16 <luite>        | you might be pleased to learn that you can compile 
                     | haskell to javascript now

ndarville

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

nickloewen

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

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Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

ckirkendall

(use '[clojure.core.match :only [match]])

(defn evaluate [env [sym x y]]
  (match [sym]
    ['Number]   x
    ['Add]      (+ (evaluate env x) (evaluate env y))
    ['Multiply] (* (evaluate env x) (evaluate env y))
    ['Variable] (env x)))
    
(def environment {"a" 3, "b" 4, "c" 5})

gnat

🐘 Postgres Standalone

Why?

• Localize your database into one single folder of your choosing.
• No sudo / root requirement.
• Run multiple Postgres at the same time on the same machine- Full bare metal performance.
• Postgres is a great starter before moving to "slow single machine but horizontal scale": CockroachDB, ScyllaDB, etc.

Compile

headius

class Proc
  def <<(other)
    case other
    when Proc
      Proc.new do |*args|
        call(other.call(*args))
      end
    else
      call(other)
    end

paf31

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