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@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active May 17, 2024 07:59
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active May 17, 2024 02:53
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active May 17, 2024 01:05
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
@tsiege
tsiege / The Technical Interview Cheat Sheet.md
Last active May 14, 2024 04:49
This is my technical interview cheat sheet. Feel free to fork it or do whatever you want with it. PLEASE let me know if there are any errors or if anything crucial is missing. I will add more links soon.

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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//
// Regular Expression for URL validation
//
// Author: Diego Perini
// Created: 2010/12/05
// Updated: 2018/09/12
// License: MIT
//
// Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Diego Perini (http://www.iport.it)
//
@nolanlawson
nolanlawson / offline-first-tools.md
Last active March 16, 2024 15:46
List of offline-first tools for web developers

Offline-first tools for web developers

A quick list of tools for building HTML/CSS/JS apps that work well offline. Ping me at @nolanlawson if I missed anything!

Hybrid app development

Tools for bundling your HTML/CSS/JS into a native app.

@dlebech
dlebech / Gerrit comment formatting
Last active January 17, 2024 10:34
Comment formatting in Gerrit
The documentation for Gerrit when it comes to formatting comments is quite lacking. Here is short list created by trial and error and looking at the source code in:
./gerrit-gwtexpui/src/main/java/com/google/gwtexpui/safehtml/client/SafeHtml.java
Lists:
* List item 1
* List item 2
- List item 1
- List item 2
@nbarraille
nbarraille / OrientationChangeAction.java
Last active January 30, 2023 00:04
An Espresso ViewAction that changes the orientation of the screen
/*
* The MIT License (MIT)
*
* Copyright (c) 2015 - Nathan Barraille
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
* to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
@omarmiatello
omarmiatello / ParcelableUtil.java
Last active January 28, 2023 01:24
Parcelable to byte array, byte array to parcelable
/**
* Copyright 2013 Omar Miatello - omar.miatello@justonetouch.it
* Based on http://stackoverflow.com/a/18000094/1228545
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
@JakeWharton
JakeWharton / gist:f50f3b4d87e57d8e96e9
Created February 7, 2015 01:59
Rise and Shine™, unlock and wake up your device automatically when you deploy from the IDE. Put this somewhere in your `src/debug/` code and run it when the application or main activity starts. Apache 2.
/**
* Show the activity over the lockscreen and wake up the device. If you launched the app manually
* both of these conditions are already true. If you deployed from the IDE, however, this will
* save you from hundreds of power button presses and pattern swiping per day!
*/
public static void riseAndShine(Activity activity) {
activity.getWindow().addFlags(FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED);
PowerManager power = (PowerManager) activity.getSystemService(POWER_SERVICE);
PowerManager.WakeLock lock =