gist:6905817

Team behind Go:
  - Ken Thompson
    - Co-Creator of Unix
    - Co-Creator of UTF-8
    - Creator of 'B', the direct predecessor to the 'C' programming language

  - Rob Pike
    - Co-Creator of Unix
    - Co-Creator of UTF-8
    - Co-Authored Practice of Programming and The Unix Programming Environment with Brian Kernighan

jgrahamc

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"runtime"
	"time"
)

func waitAround(die chan bool) {
	<- die

turtlesoupy

//
// Created by tdimson on 9/5/12.

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>
#import "SFSChickenScreen.h"


@implementation SFSChickenScreen {
    __weak CAEmitterLayer *_chickenEmitter;
    CGFloat _decayAmount;

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

nrk

ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams "lolwut.mp4" > "lolwut.mp4.json"