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jboner / latency.txt
Last active April 27, 2024 16:42
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
@paulmillr
paulmillr / active.md
Last active April 23, 2024 17:32
Most active GitHub users (by contributions). http://twitter.com/paulmillr

Most active GitHub users (git.io/top)

The count of contributions (summary of Pull Requests, opened issues and commits) to public repos at GitHub.com from Wed, 21 Sep 2022 till Thu, 21 Sep 2023.

Only first 1000 GitHub users according to the count of followers are taken. This is because of limitations of GitHub search. Sorting algo in pseudocode:

githubUsers
 .filter(user => user.followers > 1000)
/*
* Bookmarklet for viewing source in iPad Safari
*/
javascript:(function(){
var w = window.open('about:blank'),
s = w.document;
s.write('<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Source of ' + location.href + '</title><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" /></head><body></body></html>');
s.close();
@justjanne
justjanne / Price Breakdown.md
Last active April 11, 2024 22:21 — forked from kylemanna/price.txt
Server Price Breakdown: DigitalOcean, Amazon AWS LightSail, Vultr, Linode, OVH, Hetzner, Scaleway/Online.net:

Server Price Breakdown: DigitalOcean, Amazon AWS LightSail, Vultr, Linode, OVH, Hetzner, Scaleway/Online.net:

Permalink: git.io/vps

$5/mo

Provider Type RAM Cores Storage Transfer Network Price
@p01
p01 / LICENSE.txt
Last active March 9, 2024 13:40 — forked from 140bytes/LICENSE.txt
Sudoku Solver in 140bytes
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 Mathieu 'p01' Henri - http://www.p01.org/releases/
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.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
@anvaka
anvaka / 00.Intro.md
Last active March 7, 2024 13:07
npm rank

npm rank

This gist is updated daily via cron job and lists stats for npm packages:

  1. Top 1,000 most depended-upon packages
  2. Top 1,000 packages with largest number of dependencies
  3. Top 1,000 packages with highest PageRank score
@technoweenie
technoweenie / github_oauth_busy_developer_guide.md
Created May 30, 2010 18:34
GitHub OAuth Busy Developer's Guide

GitHub OAuth Busy Developer's Guide

This is a quick guide to OAuth2 support in GitHub for developers. This is still experimental and could change at any moment. This Gist will serve as a living document until it becomes finalized at Develop.GitHub.com.

OAuth2 is a protocol that lets external apps request authorization to private details in your GitHub account without getting your password. All developers need to register their application before getting started.

Web Application Flow

  • Redirect to this link to request GitHub access:
@fernandoaleman
fernandoaleman / mysql2-mojave.md
Last active February 7, 2024 19:19
Install mysql2 on MacOS Mojave

For MacOS Catalina, visit Install mysql2 on MacOS Catalina

Problem

Installing mysql2 gem errors on MacOS Mojave.

Solution

Make sure openssl is installed on Mac via Homebrew.

@sole
sole / titles.html
Created April 16, 2014 10:19
Best titles list ever
<select name="title">
<option value=""></option>
<option value="Mr">Mr</option>
<option value="Mrs">Mrs</option>
<option value="Miss">Miss</option>
<option value="Ms">Ms</option>
<option value="Dr">Dr</option>
<option value="Admiral">Admiral</option>
<option value="Air Comm">Air Comm</option>
<option value="Ambassador">Ambassador</option>
@jasonrudolph
jasonrudolph / about.md
Last active January 6, 2024 07:40
Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer