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

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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andrewrcollins

function ltrim(s) { sub(/^[ \t\r\n]+/, "", s); return s }
function rtrim(s) { sub(/[ \t\r\n]+$/, "", s); return s }
function trim(s)  { return rtrim(ltrim(s)); }
BEGIN {
# whatever
}
{
# whatever
}
END {

MateusRodCosta

{
    "input": {
        "blocklist": [],
        "compressor": {
            "attack": 20.0,
            "boost-amount": 6.0,
            "boost-threshold": -72.0,
            "hpf-frequency": 10.0,
            "hpf-mode": "off",
            "input-gain": 0.0,

orlp

int64_t ipow(int64_t base, uint8_t exp) {
    static const uint8_t highest_bit_set[] = {
        0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3,
        4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4,
        5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5,
        5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5,
        6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6,
        6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6,
        6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6,
        6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 255, // anything past 63 is a guaranteed overflow with base > 1

onlurking

Programming as Theory Building

Peter Naur

Peter Naur's classic 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building" argues that a program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct (he uses the word theory) that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct

rbreaves

# permanent apple keyboard keyswap
echo "options hid_apple swap_opt_cmd=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf
update-initramfs -u -k all

# Temporary & instant apple keyboard keyswap
echo '1' | sudo tee -a /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/swap_opt_cmd

# Windows and Mac keyboards - GUI (Physical Alt is Ctrl, Physical Super is Alt, Physical Ctrl is Super)
setxkbmap -option;setxkbmap -option altwin:ctrl_alt_win

bobbytables

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# This script is meant to build and compile every protocolbuffer for each
# service declared in this repository (as defined by sub-directories).
# It compiles using docker containers based on Namely's protoc image
# seen here: https://github.com/namely/docker-protoc

set -e

REPOPATH=${REPOPATH-/opt/protolangs}
CURRENT_BRANCH=${CIRCLE_BRANCH-"branch-not-available"}

wenzhixin

# install openjdk
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

# download android sdk
wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.2-linux.tgz

tar -xvf android-sdk_r24.2-linux.tgz
cd android-sdk-linux/tools

# install all sdk packages