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jbenet / simple-git-branching-model.md
Last active July 21, 2025 21:02
a simple git branching model

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

@aras-p
aras-p / preprocessor_fun.h
Last active July 14, 2025 13:08
Things to commit just before leaving your job
// Just before switching jobs:
// Add one of these.
// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
//
// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
//
// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,
@velicast
velicast / stdc++.h
Created July 17, 2013 17:56
Linux GCC 4.8.0 /bits/stdc++.h header definition.
// C++ includes used for precompiling -*- C++ -*-
// Copyright (C) 2003-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
//
// This file is part of the GNU ISO C++ Library. This library is free
// software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
// terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
// Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
// any later version.
@ivanyu
ivanyu / matrix_fib.py
Last active January 18, 2023 20:33
Fibonacci number in O( log N ) operations.
import time
import random
class MatrixFibonacci:
A = [[1, 1],
[1, 0]]
def __init__(self):
self.__memo = {}
@atenni
atenni / README.md
Last active July 15, 2025 12:37
How to permalink to a gist's raw file

Problem: When linking to the raw version of a gist, the link changes with each revision.

Solution:

To return the first file from a gist: https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/

To get a file from multi–file gist: https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/[file_name]

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Vector;
@klange
klange / _.md
Last active December 23, 2024 14:40
It's a résumé, as a readable and compilable C source file. Since Hacker News got here, this has been updated to be most of my actual résumé. This isn't a serious document, just a concept to annoy people who talk about recruiting and the formats they accept résumés in. It's also relatively representative of my coding style.

Since this is on Hacker News and reddit...

  • No, I don't distribute my résumé like this. A friend of mine made a joke about me being the kind of person who would do this, so I did (the link on that page was added later). My actual résumé is a good bit crazier.
  • I apologize for the use of _t in my types. I spend a lot of time at a level where I can do that; "reserved for system libraries? I am the system libraries".
  • Since people kept complaining, I've fixed the assignments of string literals to non-const char *s.
  • My use of type * name, however, is entirely intentional.
  • If you're using an older compiler, you might have trouble with the anonymous unions and the designated initializers - I think gcc 4.4 requires some extra braces to get them working together. Anything reasonably recent should work fine. Clang and gcc (newer than 4.4, at le
@nikcub
nikcub / README.md
Created October 4, 2012 13:06
Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007
@ndabas
ndabas / README.md
Last active October 5, 2015 18:07 — forked from jterrace/lang-llvm.js
LLVM plugin for google-code-prettify

LLVM plugin for google-code-prettify

lang-llvm.js adds LLVM assembly language syntax highlighting support to google-code-prettify. I wrote this in response to a question on StackOverflow.

Usage

See the google-code-prettify README for instructions on how to setup google-code-prettify. Then:

  1. Include lang-llvm.js in your HTML head tag, after prettify.js. This file is now included in the official google-code-prettify distribution.
  2. Markup your LLVM code like this:
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active August 2, 2025 22:26
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