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  1. General Background and Overview

Brief notes on Meteor for CS 294-101. Many of the key architectural ideas in Meteor are described at https://www.meteor.com/projects.

  1. BSD as example of great system design. Application primitives: processes run by a scheduler, sockets, sys calls, virtual memory, mbufs. What makes something a platform. Unix vs Multics.

  2. History of application architectures. Mainframes (e.g. IBM 360 / 3270), client-server (e.g. Win32), web (e.g. LAMP), cloud-client. Oscillation of where the software runs. Thin vs thick clients, data vs presentation on the wire. Changes driven by massive forces (cheap CPUs, ubiquitous internet, mobile). New architecture for each era.

  3. What it takes to make modern UI/UX. Mobile. Live updating. Collaboration. No refresh button. All drive the need for “realtime” or “reactive” system. Very different from HTTP era.

  4. Four questions: 1 — how do we move data around; 2 — where does it come from; 3 — where do we put it; 4 — how do we use it?

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# Description: This file holds all my BASH configurations and aliases
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# Sections:
# 1. Environment Configuration
# 2. Make Terminal Better (remapping defaults and adding functionality)
# 3. File and Folder Management
# 4. Searching
# 5. Process Management
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nixsiow / git.css
Last active August 29, 2015 14:09 — forked from neilgee/git.css
/* Set up Git Configuration */
git config --global user.email "you@yourdomain.com"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global core.editor "vi"
git config --global color.ui true
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nixsiow / 0_reuse_code.js
Created August 8, 2014 11:05
Here are some things you can do with Gists in GistBox.
// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google

Contract Killer

The popular open-source contract for web designers and developers by Stuff & Nonsense

  • Originally published: 23/12/2008
  • Revised date: 15/12/2013
  • Original post

DiUS is starting a bowling club. To help with the club, we have engaged you to program a scoring system.

The features on the system are:

  • One player only
  • In each frame, the bowler has 2 tries to knock down all the pins
  • If in 2 tries, the bowler fails to knock down all the pins, their score is the sum of the number of pins they've knocked down in the 2 attempts

E.g, if a bowler rolls, 4,4

  1. look upstream on the vacancy map
  2. research the company
  3. contact/call/email/send cv - go for a coffee
  4. apply for a job!

Interview

  • due diligence - research the company
  • don't speak negatively about previous jobs
'use strict';
// # Globbing
// for performance reasons we're only matching one level down:
// 'test/spec/{,*/}*.js'
// use this if you want to recursively match all subfolders:
// 'test/spec/**/*.js'
// OBS:
// Replace the string with informations