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@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active April 26, 2024 03:40
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
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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@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active April 25, 2024 04:18
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@santisbon
santisbon / Search my gists.md
Last active April 22, 2024 14:15
How to #search gists

Enter this in the search box along with your search terms:

Get all gists from the user santisbon.
user:santisbon

Find all gists with a .yml extension.
extension:yml

Find all gists with HTML files.
language:html

@gtallen1187
gtallen1187 / slope_vs_starting.md
Created November 2, 2015 00:02
A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept

"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept"

01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140

Here's today's thought for the weekend. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept.

[Laughter]

@alekseykulikov
alekseykulikov / index.md
Last active April 14, 2024 00:32
Principles we use to write CSS for modern browsers

Recently CSS has got a lot of negativity. But I would like to defend it and show, that with good naming convention CSS works pretty well.

My 3 developers team has just developed React.js application with 7668 lines of CSS (and just 2 !important). During one year of development we had 0 issues with CSS. No refactoring typos, no style leaks, no performance problems, possibly, it is the most stable part of our application.

Here are main principles we use to write CSS for modern (IE11+) browsers:

@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

@domenic
domenic / promises.md
Last active March 31, 2024 14:07
You're Missing the Point of Promises

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.
@klmr
klmr / Makefile
Last active March 21, 2024 19:55
Self-documenting makefiles
# Example makefile with some dummy rules
.PHONY: all
## Make ALL the things; this includes: building the target, testing it, and
## deploying to server.
all: test deploy
.PHONY: build
# No documentation; target will be omitted from help display
build:
@md5
md5 / 00_README.md
Last active March 20, 2024 00:19
Demonstration Docker config for Wordpress on PHP-FPM behind Nginx

Proof of concept setup for Wordpress running under PHP-FPM with an Nginx frontend

Usage

Build a copy of this image:

git clone git://github.com/d9206eacb5a0ff5d6be0.git docker-nginx-fpm
cd docker-nginx-fpm
docker build -t nginx-fpm .