willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

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

cayblood

# daily backup for 7 days
"/file/to/backup.log" {
     daily
     copytruncate
     rotate 7
     compress
     compresscmd /bin/bzip2
     compressext .bz2
}

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

markupboy

#!/bin/sh                        

####################################
#  Output file for HTML5 video    #
#  Requirements:                  #
#    - handbrakecli               #
#    - ffmpeg                     #
#    - ffmpeg2theora              #
#                                 #
#  usage:                         #

mloughran

Getting started

First add your twitter username and password. Then server.rb and once it's started open websocket.html in your browser. You should see some tweets appear. If not take a look at the javascript console.

zhengjia

=Navigating=
    visit('/projects')
    visit(post_comments_path(post))

=Clicking links and buttons=
    click_link('id-of-link')
    click_link('Link Text')
    click_button('Save')
    click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
    click('Button Value')

whoisjake

require 'rubygems'
# sudo gem install httparty
require 'httparty'
# sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com && sudo gem install multipart-post
require 'net/http/post/multipart'
require 'mime/types'
require 'pp'

class Dropio
  include HTTParty