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ryansmith3136 / event_buffering.md
Created February 14, 2012 04:10
event buffering

Event Buffering

Eventually platforms outgrow the single-source-tree model and become distributed systems. A common pattern in these distributed systems is distributed composition via event buffering. Here we motivate and describe this event buffering pattern.

The Problem

@pheuter
pheuter / sc-dl.js
Created March 5, 2012 20:44
Bookmarklet that generates download link for a Soundcloud upload
(function(d) {
var dl = d.createElement('a');
dl.innerText = 'Download MP3';
dl.href = "http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/"+d.querySelector('#main-content-inner img[class=waveform]').src.match(/\.com\/(.+)\_/)[1];
dl.download = d.querySelector('em').innerText+".mp3";
d.querySelector('.primary').appendChild(dl);
dl.style.marginLeft = '10px';
dl.style.color = 'red';
dl.style.fontWeight = 700;
})(document);
@erikh
erikh / hack.sh
Created March 31, 2012 07:02 — forked from DAddYE/hack.sh
OSX For Hackers
#!/usr/bin/env sh
##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#
@jlong
jlong / uri.js
Created April 20, 2012 13:29
URI Parsing with Javascript
var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";
parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port; // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search; // => "?search=test"
parser.hash; // => "#hash"
parser.host; // => "example.com:3000"
@NZKoz
NZKoz / aa_instructions.md
Created May 2, 2012 03:07
Back Up All Your Gmail
  • Install getmail (aptitude install getmail4)
  • Set Up Your Imap Server (tl;dr)
  • getmail
  • ruby date_based_archive.rb ~/Maildir/.Archive
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active March 16, 2026 22:58
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
@danparsons
danparsons / gist:3195652
Created July 29, 2012 01:46
How to stream the London 2012 Olympics

How to stream the London 2012 Olympics

There have been several HOWTOs posted regarding streaming the 2012 Olympics using HTTP / SOCKS proxies via SSH and other similar methods. None of these actually work using the latest Flash on Mountain Lion (with Firefox, Chrome or Safari). Additionally, the third-party streaming sites don't provide BBC's amazing interface, which lets you quickly skip to individual competitors and events. However, setting up an OpenVPN server does work, with some tweaks. You'll get the exact same UX that people in England receive.

@olasitarska
olasitarska / pgessays.py
Created November 18, 2012 10:11
Builds epub book out of Paul Graham's essays.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Builds epub book out of Paul Graham's essays: http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
Author: Ola Sitarska <ola@sitarska.com>
Copyright: Licensed under the GPL-3 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html)
This script requires python-epub-library: http://code.google.com/p/python-epub-builder/
"""
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active January 3, 2026 06:27
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@ragingwind
ragingwind / Backend Architectures Keywords and References.md
Last active February 24, 2026 02:06
Backend Architectures Keywords and References