rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

matthewbednarski

[{
    "Note": "The first two digits (ranging from 10–43) correspond to the province, while the last two digits correspond either to the city/delivery zone (range 01–50) or to the district/delivery zone (range 51–99). Afghanistan Postal code lookup",
    "Country": "Afghanistan",
    "ISO": "AF",
    "Format": "NNNN",
    "Regex": "^\\d{4}$"
}, {
    "Note": "With Finland, first two numbers are 22.",
    "Country": "Åland Islands",
    "ISO": "AX",
    "Format": "NNNNN",
    "Regex": "^\\d{5}$"
}, {
    "Note": "Introduced in 2006, gradually implemented throughout 2007.",
    "Country": "Albania",
    "ISO": "AL",
    "Format": "NNNN",
    "Regex": "^\\d{4}$"
}, {
    "Note": "First two as in ISO 3166-2:DZ",
    "Country": "Algeria",
    "ISO": "DZ",
    "Format": "NNNNN",
    "Regex": "^\\d{5}$"
}, {
    "Note": "U.S. ZIP codes (range 96799)",
    "Country": "American Samoa",
    "ISO": "AS",
    "Format": "NNNNN (optionally NNNNN-NNNN or NNNNN-NNNNNN)",
    "Regex": "^\\d{5}(-{1}\\d{4,6})$"
}, {
    "Note":

adaugherity

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use RGB mode for Display
# see http://embdev.net/topic/284710

require 'base64'

data=`ioreg -l -d0 -w 0 -r -c AppleDisplay`

edids=data.scan(/IODisplayEDID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i).flatten
vendorids=data.scan(/DisplayVendorID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten

dypsilon

Frontend Development

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mrjoes

1. pip install -r reqs.pip
2. server.py
3. open client.html in browser
4. redis-cli publish push '123456'
5. check browser console

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

mikeyk

def run_pg_fouine():
    info = host_info[env.host_string]
    db_name = info.tags.get('Name')
    sudo('perl -pi -e "s/log_min_duration_statement = .*/log_min_duration_statement = 0/" /etc/postgresql/9.*/main/postgresql.conf')
    sudo('/etc/init.d/postgresql reload')
    time.sleep(30)
    sudo('perl -pi -e "s/log_min_duration_statement = .*/log_min_duration_statement = 500/" /etc/postgresql/9.*/main/postgresql.conf')
    sudo('/etc/init.d/postgresql reload')
    run('tail -n 100000 /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.*-main.log > /tmp/pgfouine.txt')
    run('gzip -f /tmp/pgfouine.txt')

burke

ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.