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(10/30/2016) I am not sure when and how this gist gained quite a few stars... But as stated in the v1.13 change log (from 06/16/2015): some content may be outdated, and I am not going to fix them. Moreover, having learned much myself, I do not necessarily agree with every point made in this document from 2.5 years ago. Therefore, please take views from this document with a grain of salt, and do further research as you see fit.
This document was initally written for a friend of mine, Jiawen Li, so it might reflect some personal tastes here and there. For instance, some discussions are geared towards Windows, though *nix is obviously superior. For another example, when I say "you seem to love Sublime Text a lot," I'm certainly not expecting most people to love Sublime (in fact I never used it for more than three minutes in a row).
This document is written in Markdown. The Markdown rendering engine on GitHub Gist is somewhat limited a

Please petition Github to support HTTPS on github pages: https://github.com/contact

Here's what I wrote:

Obviously, a lot of people want HTTPS for github pages:

isaacs/github#156

Until recently, that would be difficult to implement but, as it turns out, the implementation is pretty much complete:

https://letsencrypt.org >* https://github.com/letsencrypt/lets-encrypt-preview

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

	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

	# Ansible playbook for updating a source-installed CKAN site
	#
	# Generally used to update beta.ckan.org and master.ckan.org on the staging
	# server (currently s084), but it can be easily adapted to your own deployment
	# needs.
	#
	# Add the staging server IP tp your /etc/ansible/hosts file (check if the IP
	# is up to date):
	#
	# [staging]

	---
	- hosts: all

	sudo: yes

	vars:
	- db_name: ckan_default
	- db_user: ckan_default
	- db_password: ckan_default
	- ckan_package_filename: 'python-ckan_2.2_amd64.deb'

	import sys
	import csv
	import os

	rows = []
	input_file = sys.argv[1]

	rows.append([ 'Date', 'Payee', 'Category', 'Memo', 'Outflow', 'Inflow' ])

	with open(input_file, 'rb') as f:

	// Place user-specific overrides in this file, to ensure they're preserved
	// when upgrading
	{
	"folder_exclude_patterns": [".svn", ".git", ".hg", "CVS", "node_modules"]
	}