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@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active July 17, 2025 12:17
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
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
@cobyism
cobyism / gh-pages-deploy.md
Last active July 1, 2025 06:35
Deploy to `gh-pages` from a `dist` folder on the master branch. Useful for use with [yeoman](http://yeoman.io).

Deploying a subfolder to GitHub Pages

Sometimes you want to have a subdirectory on the master branch be the root directory of a repository’s gh-pages branch. This is useful for things like sites developed with Yeoman, or if you have a Jekyll site contained in the master branch alongside the rest of your code.

For the sake of this example, let’s pretend the subfolder containing your site is named dist.

Step 1

Remove the dist directory from the project’s .gitignore file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).

@jdx
jdx / boot.js
Last active August 11, 2024 13:00
zero-downtime node.js app runner
// This script will boot app.js with the number of workers
// specified in WORKER_COUNT.
//
// The master will respond to SIGHUP, which will trigger
// restarting all the workers and reloading the app.
var cluster = require('cluster');
var workerCount = process.env.WORKER_COUNT || 2;
// Defines what each worker needs to run
@amalgjose
amalgjose / TornadoSSL.py
Last active October 30, 2022 20:43
Sample service using python tornado with SSL.
__author__ = 'Amal G Jose'
import os
import tornado.httpserver
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.options
import tornado.web
class HelloWorldHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
@joepie91
joepie91 / vpn.md
Last active July 17, 2025 17:03
Don't use VPN services.

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

  • A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
  • A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
  • There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.
@saulshanabrook
saulshanabrook / README.md
Created October 19, 2016 14:20
Saving Web Crypto Keys using indexedDB

This is a working example on how to store CryptoKeys locally in your browser. We are able to save the objects, without serializing them. This means we can keep them not exportable (which might be more secure?? not sure what attack vectors this prevents).

To try out this example, first make sure you are in a browser that has support for async...await and indexedDB (latest chrome canary with chrome://flags "Enable Experimental Javascript" works). Load some page and copy and paste this code into the console. Then call encryptDataSaveKey(). This will create a private/public key pair and encrypted some random data with the private key. Then save both of them. Now reload the page, copy in the code, and run loadKeyDecryptData(). It will load the keys and encrypted data and decrypt it. You should see the same data logged both times.

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.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

0x00 0 STOP
0x01 3 ADD
0x02 5 MUL
0x03 3 SUB
0x04 5 DIV
0x05 5 SDIV
0x06 5 MOD
0x07 5 SMOD
0x08 8 ADDMOD
0x09 8 MULMOD
@nathanqthai
nathanqthai / readme.txt
Last active May 19, 2024 01:22
simple tornado server with ssl
to generate example certs
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout host.key -out host.crt
run server:
chmod +x server.py
./server.py
test server:
openssl s_client -connect localhost:8888
@k06a
k06a / Unipool.sol
Last active November 6, 2019 12:13
ETH-sETH Staking Pool for SNX reward
pragma solidity ^0.5.0;
import "github.com/openzeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/contracts/math/SafeMath.sol";
import "github.com/openzeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol";
import "github.com/openzeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20Detailed.sol";
import "github.com/openzeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/contracts/token/ERC20/SafeERC20.sol";
contract Unipool is ERC20, ERC20Detailed("Unipool", "SNX-UNP", 18) {