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@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active April 23, 2025 18:02
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
@XVilka
XVilka / TrueColour.md
Last active April 22, 2025 06:32
True Colour (16 million colours) support in various terminal applications and terminals

THIS GIST WAS MOVED TO TERMSTANDARD/COLORS REPOSITORY.

PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS AS A REPOSITORY ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS INSTEAD!

@wbroek
wbroek / genymotionwithplay.txt
Last active February 13, 2025 09:37
Genymotion with Google Play Services for ARM
NOTE: Easier way is the X86 way, described on https://www.genymotion.com/help/desktop/faq/#google-play-services
Download the following ZIPs:
ARM Translation Installer v1.1 (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0ZIO8PME/Genymotion-ARM-Translation_v1.1.zip_links)
Download the correct GApps for your Android version:
Google Apps for Android 6.0 (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347835438 - benzo-gapps-M-20151011-signed-chroma-r3.zip)
Google Apps for Android 5.1 (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=96042739161891406 - gapps-L-4-21-15.zip)
Google Apps for Android 5.0 (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001614559 - gapps-lp-20141109-signed.zip)
@lufzle
lufzle / countries.json
Created April 4, 2014 14:16
Countries as an object where the key is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and the values is the country name.
{
"AF": "Afghanistan",
"AX": "Åland Islands",
"AL": "Albania",
"DZ": "Algeria",
"AS": "American Samoa",
"AD": "Andorra",
"AO": "Angola",
"AI": "Anguilla",
"AQ": "Antarctica",
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active April 24, 2025 06:10
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@benjamingr
benjamingr / gist:0237932cee84712951a2
Last active October 6, 2023 08:31
Promise unhandled rejection tracking global handler hook

Possibly Unhandled Rejection NodeJS Promise Hook

###Unhandled Rejection Tracking

Several promise libraries such as bluebird and when as well as some native promise implementations offer potentially unhandled rejection tracking. This means that the following:

Promise.reject(new Error("err")); // never attach a `catch`
@imjasonh
imjasonh / markdown.css
Last active January 3, 2025 20:15
Render Markdown as unrendered Markdown (see http://jsbin.com/huwosomawo)
* {
font-size: 12pt;
font-family: monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
cursor: default;
}
@gaearon
gaearon / slim-redux.js
Last active December 3, 2024 06:34
Redux without the sanity checks in a single file. Don't use this, use normal Redux. :-)
function mapValues(obj, fn) {
return Object.keys(obj).reduce((result, key) => {
result[key] = fn(obj[key], key);
return result;
}, {});
}
function pick(obj, fn) {
return Object.keys(obj).reduce((result, key) => {
if (fn(obj[key])) {

@kangax's ES6 quiz, explained

@kangax created a new interesting quiz, this time devoted to ES6 (aka ES2015). I found this quiz very interesting and quite hard (made myself 3 mistakes on first pass).

Here we go with the explanations:

Question 1:
(function(x, f = () => x) {
[].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('img'), function (img) { if (/\.gif/i.test(img.src)) img.remove() })