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## web-fonts-asset-pipeline.md

      
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                Custom Web Fonts and the Rails Asset Pipeline
              
          
    Web fonts are pretty much all the rage. Using a CDN for font libraries, like TypeKit or Google Fonts, will be a great solution for many projects. For others, this is not an option. Especially when you are creating a custom icon library for your project.
Rails and the asset pipeline are great tools, but Rails has yet to get caught up in the custom web font craze.
As with all things Rails, there is more then one way to skin this cat. There is the recommended way, and then there are the other ways.
The recommended way

Here I will show how to update your Rails project so that you can use the asset pipeline appropriately and resource your files using the common Rails convention.

  
## html5-template-semantic-tags
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Title</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>Header</header>
    <nav>
      <a href="#">Home</a>

## latency.markdown

      
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                Latency numbers every programmer should know
              
          
    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

  
## gist:1091554
javascript: void((function() {
    var colors = [];
    var title = document.title.replace(/Dribbble - /g, '');
    var li = document.getElementsByClassName('color');

    if (li.length > 0) {
        for (var i = 0; i < li.length; i++) {
            var c = li[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].getAttribute('title');
            colors.push('<li><div style="display:inline-block; width:20px; height:20px;background:' + c + '"></div> ' + c + '</li>');
        }

## prompt.sh
# Configure colors, if available.
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
    c_reset='\[\e[0m\]'
    c_user='\[\e[0;32m\]'
    c_path='\[\e[1;34m\]'
    c_git_clean='\[\e[0;37m\]'
    c_git_staged='\[\e[0;32m\]'
    c_git_unstaged='\[\e[0;31m\]'
else
    c_reset=
	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8" />
	<title>Title</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<header>Header</header>
	<nav>
	<a href="#">Home</a>
	javascript: void((function() {
	var colors = [];
	var title = document.title.replace(/Dribbble - /g, '');
	var li = document.getElementsByClassName('color');

	if (li.length > 0) {
	for (var i = 0; i < li.length; i++) {
	var c = li[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].getAttribute('title');
	colors.push('<li><div style="display:inline-block; width:20px; height:20px;background:' + c + '"></div> ' + c + '</li>');
	}
	# Configure colors, if available.
	if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
	c_reset='\[\e[0m\]'
	c_user='\[\e[0;32m\]'
	c_path='\[\e[1;34m\]'
	c_git_clean='\[\e[0;37m\]'
	c_git_staged='\[\e[0;32m\]'
	c_git_unstaged='\[\e[0;31m\]'
	else
	c_reset=