CristinaSolana

1. Clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream

kolber

pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace

by humdog (1994)

when i went into cyberspace i went into it thinking that it was a place like any other place and that it would be a human interaction like any other human interaction. i was wrong when i thought that. it was a terrible mistake.

the very first understanding that i had that it was not a place like any place and that the interaction would be different was when people began to talk to me as though i were a man. when they wrote about me in the third person, they would say “he.” it interested me to have people think i was “he” instead of “she” and so at first i did not say anything. i grinned and let them think i was “he.” this went on for a little while and it was fun but after a while i was uncomfortable. finally i said unto them that i, humdog, was a woman and not a man. this surprised them. at that moment i realized that the dissolution of gender-category was something that was happening everywhere, and perhaps it was only just very obvious on the ne

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
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

sghael

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="white">#FFFFFF</color>
    <color name="ivory">#FFFFF0</color>
    <color name="light_yellow">#FFFFE0</color>
    <color name="yellow">#FFFF00</color>
    <color name="snow">#FFFAFA</color>
    <color name="floral_white">#FFFAF0</color>
    <color name="lemon_chiffon">#FFFACD</color>
    <color name="cornsilk">#FFF8DC</color>

QuantumCD

    qApp->setStyle(QStyleFactory::create("Fusion"));

    QPalette darkPalette;
    darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::Window, QColor(53,53,53));
    darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::WindowText, Qt::white);
    darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::Base, QColor(25,25,25));
    darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::AlternateBase, QColor(53,53,53));
    darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::ToolTipBase, Qt::white);
    darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::ToolTipText, Qt::white);
    darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::Text, Qt::white);

dinob0t

"""
To generate 'num' points on a sphere of radius 'r' centred on the origin
- Random placement involves randomly chosen points for 'z' and 'phi'
- Regular placement involves chosing points such that there one point per d_area

References:
Deserno, 2004, How to generate equidistributed points on the surface of a sphere
http://www.cmu.edu/biolphys/deserno/pdf/sphere_equi.pdf
"""

nickloewen

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

---

Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

johnchristopher

ffmpeg -i input.mp4   \
       -map 0:1       \
       -c:a copy      \
       -y output.m4a

Rod-Persky

# _______  __   __  _______  ______   _______  _______  _______  ______  #
#|       ||  | |  ||       ||      | |   _   ||       ||       ||      | #
#|   _   ||  | |  ||_     _||  _    ||  |_|  ||_     _||    ___||  _    |#
#|  | |  ||  |_|  |  |   |  | | |   ||       |  |   |  |   |___ | | |   |#
#|  |_|  ||       |  |   |  | |_|   ||       |  |   |  |    ___|| |_|   |#
#|       ||       |  |   |  |       ||   _   |  |   |  |   |___ |       |#
#|_______||_______|  |___|  |______| |__| |__|  |___|  |_______||______| #
#                                                                        #
#  Modern CMake practices and importing the QT scripts by adding it to   #
#    your module path makes things a lot better than it used to be       #

ocornut

Memory Optimization (Christer Ericson, GDC 2003)
http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/pubs/GDC03_Ericson_Memory_Optimization.ppt

Cache coherency primer (Fabian Giesen)
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/cache-coherency/

Code Clinic 2015: How to Write Code the Compiler Can Actually Optimize (Mike Acton)
http://gdcvault.com/play/1021866/Code-Clinic-2015-How-to