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@sent-hil
sent-hil / pictures.markdown
Created August 24, 2012 02:18
River (getriver.com): Keep a programming journal.

One of my favorite past times is to look at the notebooks of famous scientists. Da Vinci's notebook is well known, but there plenty others. Worshipping Da Vinci like no other, I bought a Think/Create/Record journal, used it mostly to keep jot down random thoughts and take notes. This was great in the beginning, but the conformity of lines drove me nuts. Only moleskines made blank notebooks, so I had to buy one.

At the same time I started a freelance project. The project itself is irrelevant, but suffice to say it was very complex and spanned several months. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to use the moleskine. Looking back, all my entries fell under few categories:

  • Todo
  • Question
  • Thought
  • Bug
  • Feature
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active December 25, 2025 23:33
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
@ryenus
ryenus / gist:1518596
Created December 25, 2011 01:15
Using ruby in place of grep/awk/sed like perl

With options -e, -n, -p, perl can do what grep/awk/sed can, what about ruby?

Let's take the result of ls -l as input and process it with ruby

grep with ruby

\ls -l | ruby -ne 'print if /^d/'

awk with ruby

\ls -l | ruby -ne 'puts split(/\s+/).last if /^d/'

@timcowlishaw
timcowlishaw / Trie.scala
Created November 14, 2011 10:06
A Trie (Prefix-tree) implementation in Scala
package uk.ac.ucl.cs.GI15.timNancyKawal {
class Trie[V](key: Option[Char]) {
def this() {
this(None);
}
import scala.collection.Seq
import scala.collection.immutable.TreeMap
import scala.collection.immutable.WrappedString
@huyng
huyng / matplotlibrc
Created February 8, 2011 15:50
my default matplotlib settings
### MATPLOTLIBRC FORMAT
# This is a sample matplotlib configuration file - you can find a copy
# of it on your system in
# site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc. If you edit it
# there, please note that it will be overridden in your next install.
# If you want to keep a permanent local copy that will not be
# over-written, place it in HOME/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc (unix/linux
# like systems) and C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\.matplotlib
# (win32 systems).