tommyjtl

rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

---

Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

jesseschalken

My preferred code style is 2-space K&R. This is intended to provide a justification for this style.

Why K&R?

K&R style has the following properties:

1. Provides symmetric size (in terms of screen space consumed) between the opening and closing syntax of a clode block.
2. Forces no empty or meaningless lines, thereby avoiding artificial distance between related things that should be together.
3. Consumes the minimum vertical space while keeping the opening and closing syntax of a block on separate lines from the content.

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

isaacs

# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
#
# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
# programs.
#
# Once you're done here, go to
# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
# to learn SOOOO much more.

mycodeschool

/* Doubly Linked List implementation */
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

struct Node  {
	int data;
	struct Node* next;
	struct Node* prev;
};

nuxlli

Sublime Text 2 - Useful Shortcuts

Tested in Mac OS X: super == command

Open/Goto

---

• super+t: go to file
• super+ctrl+p: go to project
• super+r: go to methods