darencard

A quick-start guide for using gnuplot for in-terminal plotting

Sometimes it is really nice to just take a quick look at some data. However, when working on remote computers, it is a bit of a burden to move data files to a local computer to create a plot in something like R. One solution is to use gnuplot and make a quick plot that is rendered in the terminal. It isn't very pretty by default, but it gets the job done quickly and easily. There are also advanced gnuplot capabilities that aren't covered here at all.

gnuplot has it's own internal syntax that can be fed in as a script, which I won't get into. Here is the very simplified gnuplot code we'll be using:

set terminal dumb size 120, 30; set autoscale; plot '-' using 1:3 with lines notitle

Let's break this down:

djspiewak

How to GPG as a Scala OSS Maintainer

tl;dr Generate a GPG key pair (exercising appropriate paranoia). Send it to key servers. Create a Keybase account with the public part of that key. Use your keypair to sign git tags and SBT artifacts.

GPG is probably one of the least understood day-to-day pieces of software in the modern developer's toolshed. It's certainly the least understood of the important pieces of software (literally no one cares that you can't remember grep's regex variant), and this is a testament to the mightily terrible user interface it exposes to its otherwise extremely simple functionality. It's almost like cryptographers think that part of the security comes from the fact that bad guys can't figure it out any more than the good guys can.

Anyway, GPG is important for open source in particular because of one specific feature of public/private key cryptography: signing. Any published software should be signed by the developer (or company) who published it. Ideally, consu

edwinfinch

2070 Paradigm Shift Transcript
Transcribed by Edwin Finch

Sam, you're a legend. Enjoy
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Whew.

Hey.

adamwiggins

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

nikcub

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

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