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@jvns
jvns / interview-questions.md
Last active April 17, 2025 16:25
A list of questions you could ask while interviewing

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

@tokenvolt
tokenvolt / simple_form_bootstrap3.rb
Last active November 2, 2023 11:55
Bootstrap 3 simple form initializer
inputs = %w[
CollectionSelectInput
DateTimeInput
FileInput
GroupedCollectionSelectInput
NumericInput
PasswordInput
RangeInput
StringInput
TextInput
@dypsilon
dypsilon / frontendDevlopmentBookmarks.md
Last active July 12, 2025 14:05
A badass list of frontend development resources I collected over time.
@orend
orend / gist:5134300
Created March 11, 2013 13:40
Streaming with csv, from ruby tapas
require 'csv'
def memstats
size = `ps -o size= #{$$}`.strip.to_i
end
memstats #4900
CSV.open('visitors.csv', headers: true) do |csv|
visitors = csv.each # Enumerator
memstats # 5164
@natw
natw / fizzbuzz.py
Created November 15, 2012 16:22
best fizzbuzz
import random
for i in range(0, 100):
if not i % 15:
random.seed(1178741599)
print [i+1, "Fizz", "Buzz", "FizzBuzz"][random.randint(0,3)]
@roberto
roberto / _flash_messages.html.erb
Created August 13, 2012 22:47
Rails flash messages using Twitter Bootstrap
<% flash.each do |type, message| %>
<div class="alert <%= bootstrap_class_for(type) %> fade in">
<button class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>
<%= message %>
</div>
<% end %>
@hellerbarde
hellerbarde / latency.markdown
Created May 31, 2012 13:16 — forked from jboner/latency.txt
Latency numbers every programmer should know

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

@jlong
jlong / uri.js
Created April 20, 2012 13:29
URI Parsing with Javascript
var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";
parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port; // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search; // => "?search=test"
parser.hash; // => "#hash"
parser.host; // => "example.com:3000"
@hrldcpr
hrldcpr / tree.md
Last active June 19, 2025 08:17
one-line tree in python

One-line Tree in Python

Using Python's built-in defaultdict we can easily define a tree data structure:

def tree(): return defaultdict(tree)

That's it!

@thinkphp
thinkphp / gist:1450738
Created December 9, 2011 08:29
Binary Search Tree implementation in Python
'''
by Adrian Statescu <[email protected]>
Twitter: @thinkphp
G+ : http://gplus.to/thinkphp
MIT Style License
'''
'''
Binary Search Tree
------------------