From currying to closures there are quite a number of special words used in JavaScript. These will not only help you increase your vocabulary but also better understand JavaScript. Special terms are normally found in documentation and technical articles. But some of them like closures are pretty standard things to know about. Knowing what the word itself means can help you know the concept it's named for better.
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# coding=UTF-8 | |
from __future__ import division | |
import re | |
# This is a naive text summarization algorithm | |
# Created by Shlomi Babluki | |
# April, 2013 | |
#to enable it to work on python 3 too | |
import sys |
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<!DOCTYPE html> | |
<html> | |
<head> | |
<meta charset="utf-8"> | |
<title>Wheel of Fortune Bingo</title> | |
<!-- | |
MIT License |
When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:
const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');
Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.
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# coding=UTF-8 | |
from __future__ import division | |
import re | |
# This is a naive text summarization algorithm | |
# Created by Shlomi Babluki | |
# April, 2013 | |
class SummaryTool(object): |
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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 |
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worker_processes 4; | |
events { | |
worker_connections 1024; | |
} | |
http { | |
default_type application/octet-stream; | |
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' | |
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' |
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CFLAGS = -O2 -g \ | |
-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 \ | |
-std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic \ | |
-Wunused -Wimplicit -Wshadow -Wformat=2 \ | |
-Wmissing-declarations -Wno-missing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings \ | |
-Wbad-function-cast -Wnested-externs -Wcomment -Winline \ | |
-Wchar-subscripts -Wcast-align \ | |
-Wsequence-point \ | |
LDFLAGS = |