blacktaxi

; Ruby has an awesome feature -- string interpolation. Read about it on the internet.
; On the other hand, Clojure only has cumbersome Java string formatting, which can not be
; used without pain after you've tried Ruby.

; So here's this simple macro that basically allows you to do most things you could do
; with Ruby string interpolation in Clojure.

(ns eis.stuff
  (:require [clojure.string]))

hellerbarde

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

valadan

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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philandstuff

EuroClojure 2014, Krakow

Fergal Byrne, Clortex: Machine Intelligence based on Jeff Hawkins’ HTM Theory

• @fergbyrne
• HTM = Hierarchical Temporal Memory
• Slides

big data

• big data is like teenage sex
  • noone knows how to do it
  • everyone thinks everyone else is doing it

jessitron

Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast, by Gershom Bazerman.

Condensed from: http://comonad.com/reader/2014/letter-to-a-young-haskell-enthusiast/

The following letter is about tendencies that come with the flush of excitement of learning any new thing. It is written specifically, because if we don't talk specifics, the generalities make no sense. It is a letter full of things I want to remember.

You’ve entered the world of strongly typed functional programming, and it is great. You want to share the great things you’ve learned, and you want to slay all the false statements in the world.

prakhar1989

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

georgiana-gligor

Create PDF files from Markdown sources in OSX

When [Markdown][markdown] appeared more than 10 years ago, it aimed to make it easier to express ideas in an easy-to-write plain text format. It offers a simple syntax that takes the writer focus away from the formatting, thus giving her time to focus on the actual content.

The market abunds of editors to be used for help with markdown. After a few attempts, I settled to Sublime and its browser preview plugin, which work great for me and have a small memory footprint to accomplish that. To pass the results around to other people, less technical, a markdown file and a bunch of images is not the best approach, so converting it to a more robust format like PDF seems like a much better choice.

[Pandoc][pandoc] is the swiss-army knife of converting documents between various formats. While being able to deal with heavy-weight formats like docx and epub, we will need it for the more lightweight markdown. To be able to generate PDF files, we need LaTeX. On OSX, the s

jmglov

#!/usr/bin/env pxi

(ns cli
  "pxi cli.pxi --verbose --bar 42 --hello 'world!'
  {:verbose true, :bar 42, :hello world!}"
  (:require [pixie.string :as string]))

(defn- arg?
  "Returns true if the string is an argument to an option"
  [s]

bastman

Docker - How to cleanup (unused) resources

Once in a while, you may need to cleanup resources (containers, volumes, images, networks) ...

delete volumes

// see: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes

$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true | xargs -r docker volume rm