jboner

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

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

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.

julianlam

Exposing a directory on the host machine to an LXC container

1. Log into the container and create an empty directory, this will be the mount point
2. Log out and stop the container.
3. Open to your container's config file
   • For regular LXC containers: /var/lib/lxc/mycontainer/config
   • For unprivileged LXC containers: $HOME/.local/share/lxc/mycontainer/config
4. Add a new line above the lxc.mount directive, that follows the format below. Substitute proper paths as necessary:
   • lxc.mount.entry = /path/to/folder/on/host /path/to/mount/point none bind 0 0

• Both of these paths are relative to the host machine.

FredLoney

import inspect
import logging

HEADER_FMT = "Call stack at %s, line %d in function %s, frames %d to %d of %d:"
"""The log header message formatter."""

STACK_FMT = "%s, line %d in function %s."
"""The log stack message formatter."""

def log_stack(logger=None, limit=None, start=0):

paragonie-scott

Hello software developers,

Please check your code to ensure you're not making one of the following mistakes related to cryptography.

I. General Mistakes

• Writing your own home-grown cryptography primitives (For example: Mifare Classic)
  • Exception: For the sake of learning, but don't deploy it in production.
• Using a fast hash function (e.g. MD5, SHA256) for storing passwords. Use bcrypt instead.
• Not using a cryptographically secure random number generator

schlamar

import os
import sys
import traceback
from functools import wraps
from multiprocessing import Process, Queue


def processify(func):
    '''Decorator to run a function as a process.
    Be sure that every argument and the return value

miki725

#!/bin/bash
#
# DESCRIPTION:
#
#   Set the bash prompt according to:
#    * the active virtualenv
#    * the branch of the current git/mercurial repository
#    * the return value of the previous command
#    * the fact you just came from Windows and are used to having newlines in
#      your prompts.

yegappan

Vim Script for Python Developers

This is a guide to Vim Script development for Python developers. Sample code for the various expressions, statements, functions and programming constructs is shown in both Python and Vim Script. This is not intended to be a tutorial for developing Vim scripts. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with Python programming.

For an introduction to Vim Script development, refer to usr_41.txt, eval.txt and Learn Vimscript the Hard Way

For a guide similar to this one for JavaScript developers, refer to Vim Script for the JavaScripter

This guide only describes the programming constructs that are present in both Python and Vim. The constructs that are unique to Vim (e.g. autocommands, [key-mapping](https://vimhelp.org/map.txt.html#key-m

jdthorpe

Extending python-docx

Background

I was recently tasked with scraping data from a few thousand of word documents each of which contained nested docx documents which were referenced by w:altChunk elements in the body of the main ./word/document.xml file, like so: