| 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 |
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.
(by @andrestaltz)
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.
How do you send information between clients and servers? What format should that information be in? What happens when the server changes the format, but the client has not been updated yet? What happens when the server changes the format, but the database cannot be updated?
These are difficult questions. It is not just about picking a format, but rather picking a format that can evolve as your application evolves.
By now there are many approaches to communicating between client and server. These approaches tend to be known within specific companies and language communities, but the techniques do not cross borders. I will outline JSON, ProtoBuf, and GraphQL here so we can learn from them all.
When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:
const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.
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“I perfectly understand our CSS. I never have any issues with cascading rules. I never have to use !important or inline styles. Even though somebody else wrote this bit of CSS, I know exactly how it works and how to extend it. Fixes are easy! I have a hard time breaking our CSS. I know exactly where to put new CSS. We use all of our CSS and it’s pretty small overall. When I delete a template, I know the exact corresponding CSS file and I can delete it all at once. Nothing gets left behind.”
You often hear updog saying stuff like this. Who’s updog? Not much, who is up with you?
| /* | |
| This has been tested in Chrome v55.0.2883.95 (64-bit) | |
| 1. Log into ADP website using the URL: https://my.adp.com/static/redbox/login.html (Make sure you are NOT in Incognito mode) | |
| 2. Open Developer Tools console | |
| 3. Run the following code in the console: | |
| */ | |
| var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); | |
| xhr.open('GET', 'https://my.adp.com/v1_0/O/A/payStatements?adjustments=yes&numberoflastpaydates=300'); |
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF | |
| appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify | |
| Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script. | |
| Appify takes a shell script as its first argument: | |
| `basename "$0"` my-script.sh |
Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would