hellerbarde

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

garyharan

@mixin box-shadow($top, $left, $blur, $color, $inset: false) {
  @if $inset {
    -webkit-box-shadow:inset $top $left $blur $color;
    -moz-box-shadow:inset $top $left $blur $color;
    box-shadow:inset $top $left $blur $color;
  } @else {
    -webkit-box-shadow: $top $left $blur $color;
    -moz-box-shadow: $top $left $blur $color;
    box-shadow: $top $left $blur $color;
  }

treyhunner

# This code is under the MIT license.
# Inspired by this StackOverflow question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3295405/creating-django-objects-with-a-random-primary-key

import struct
from Crypto.Cipher import DES
from django.db import models


def base36encode(number):