technmsg

import argparse
import requests
import time
import json
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US')

def main():
    """
    Entry point of the application

busbey

client-1.example.com:0
client-2.example.com:429496729
client-3.example.com:858993458
client-4.example.com:1288490187
client-5.example.com:1717986916

jboner

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

judofyr

What's Wrong with Ruby? Hah Yeah, It's Me!

(by _why, 16 Mar 2007)

In an article posted entitled "What’s Wrong With Ruby?", the author cites me as one of the main problems:

If I was put off Ruby by the hype, I was put off more by the many cutesy introductory tutorials I encountered when trying to get into it. Why’s