⚠️ Note 2023-01-21
Some things have changed since I originally wrote this in 2016. I have updated a few minor details, and the advice is still broadly the same, but there are some new Cloudflare features you can (and should) take advantage of. In particular, pay attention to Trevor Stevens' comment here from 22 January 2022, and Matt Stenson's useful caching advice. In addition, Backblaze, with whom Cloudflare are a Bandwidth Alliance partner, have published their own guide detailing how to use Cloudflare's Web Workers to cache content from B2 private buckets. That is worth reading,
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 |
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.
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
uninstall() { | |
list=`gem list --no-versions` | |
for gem in $list; do | |
gem uninstall $gem -aIx | |
done | |
gem list | |
gem install bundler | |
} |
These rules are adopted from the AngularJS commit conventions.
;SMBDIS.ASM - A COMPREHENSIVE SUPER MARIO BROS. DISASSEMBLY | |
;by doppelganger (doppelheathen@gmail.com) | |
;This file is provided for your own use as-is. It will require the character rom data | |
;and an iNES file header to get it to work. | |
;There are so many people I have to thank for this, that taking all the credit for | |
;myself would be an unforgivable act of arrogance. Without their help this would | |
;probably not be possible. So I thank all the peeps in the nesdev scene whose insight into | |
;the 6502 and the NES helped me learn how it works (you guys know who you are, there's no |
- Related Setup: https://gist.github.com/hofmannsven/6814278
- Related Pro Tips: https://ochronus.com/git-tips-from-the-trenches/
- Interactive Beginners Tutorial: http://try.github.io/
- Git Cheatsheet by GitHub: https://services.github.com/on-demand/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet/
Press minus + shift + s
and return
to chop/fold long lines!
(by @andrestaltz)
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.
No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.
Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.
- A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
- A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
- There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.