Bob Gardner rgardner

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.

Update HISTORY.md
Commit the changes:

git add HISTORY.md
git commit -m "Changelog for upcoming release 0.1.1."

Update version number (can also be minor or major)

bumpversion patch

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

OS X Preferences

most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

	# coding=UTF-8
	import nltk
	from nltk.corpus import brown

	# This is a fast and simple noun phrase extractor (based on NLTK)
	# Feel free to use it, just keep a link back to this post
	# http://thetokenizer.com/2013/05/09/efficient-way-to-extract-the-main-topics-of-a-sentence/
	# Create by Shlomi Babluki
	# May, 2013

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	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

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'wukong'

	# Given a file with the coordinate pair of a live cell on each line,
	# generate the next iteration of Game of Life, using MapReduce
	#
	# The map phase takes each live cell, and outputs 9 key value pairs, 1 for
	# each of the adjacent cells and itself. The reduce phase dedupes, detects