mmalecki

for (var i = 0; i < 1024 * 1024; i++) {
  process.nextTick(function () { Math.sqrt(i) } )
}

lancejpollard

What is your folder-structure preference for a large-scale Node.js project?

0: Starting from Rails

This is the reference point. All the other options are based off this.

|-- app
|   |-- controllers
|   |   |-- admin

oodavid

Deploy your site with git

This gist assumes:

• you have a local git repo
• with an online remote repository (github / bitbucket etc)
• and a cloud server (Rackspace cloud / Amazon EC2 etc)
  • your (PHP) scripts are served from /var/www/html/
  • your webpages are executed by apache
• apache's home directory is /var/www/

ThomasBurleson

// an IIFE that illustrates different implementations
// of $.post() with Promises
//
// Check out jsFiddle `jQuery and Promises with UI animation` 
//   - demonstrates $.Deferrred() and custom $.when()
//   - @ http://jsfiddle.net/ThomasBurleson/RTLr6/179/
//
var onSubmitFeedback = (function () {

  var target   = $("#container").append("<div class='spinner'>");

maxrice

<?php

/* From https://www.usps.com/send/official-abbreviations.htm */

$us_state_abbrevs_names = array(
	'AL'=>'ALABAMA',
	'AK'=>'ALASKA',
	'AS'=>'AMERICAN SAMOA',
	'AZ'=>'ARIZONA',
	'AR'=>'ARKANSAS',

hellerbarde

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

brandonb927

#!/bin/sh

###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###

# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

tml

to get a list of free programming books, here's the list from a Zed Shaw & Co. programming-related, profanity-filled website.

<div style="text-align: left">
    <table>
        <tbody><tr><th colspan="3">Programming Languages</th>
        </tr><tr>
            <td><a href="#Assembly Language">Assembly Language</a></td>
            <td><a href="#Bash">Bash</a></td>
            <td><a href="#C / C++">C / C++</a></td>
        </tr>

zaherg

Creating Your Laravel & nginx Server

We will install Larave 4.1 with PHP5.5 & Latest nginx on Ubuntu 12.04.3 x64.

updating your system

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
adduser [username]
usermod -aG sudo [username]
apt-get -y install git

laracasts

<?php

class ExampleTest extends TestCase {

	public function setUp()
	{
		parent::setUp();
		
		DB::beginTransaction();
	}