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piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active April 26, 2024 21:27
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@btoone
btoone / curl.md
Last active April 2, 2024 20:18
A curl tutorial using GitHub's API

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>SoundCloud OAuth 2 User Agent Authentication Flow Demo</title>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="javascript/jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(function () {
var extractToken = function(hash) {
(defstruct path :state :previous :cost-so-far :total-cost)
(defn path-to-string
[path]
(format "Path to %s, cost %s" (:state path) (:total-cost path)))
(defn make-path
"Create a new path object"
[state previous cost-so-far total-cost]
(struct path state previous cost-so-far total-cost))