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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com

What's an Effective Engineer?

• They are the people who get things done. Effective Engineers produce results.

Adopt the Right Mindsets

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#!/bin/sh

# /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/pre-up.d/randomize-mac-addresses

# Configure every saved WiFi connection in NetworkManager with a spoofed MAC
# address, seeded from the UUID of the connection and the date eg:
# 'c31bbcc4-d6ad-11e7-9a5a-e7e1491a7e20-2017-11-20'

# This makes your MAC impossible(?) to track across WiFi providers, and
# for one provider to track across days.

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#!/bin/bash
# bash generate random alphanumeric string
#

# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (upper and lowercase) and 
NEW_UUID=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1)

# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (lowercase only)
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1

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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

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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

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; Sample supervisor config file.

[unix_http_server]
file=/tmp/supervisor.sock   ; (the path to the socket file)
;chmod=0700                 ; sockef file mode (default 0700)
;chown=nobody:nogroup       ; socket file uid:gid owner
;username=user              ; (default is no username (open server))
;password=123               ; (default is no password (open server))

;[inet_http_server]         ; inet (TCP) server disabled by default

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/* Useful celery config.

app = Celery('tasks',
             broker='redis://localhost:6379',
             backend='redis://localhost:6379')

app.conf.update(
    CELERY_TASK_RESULT_EXPIRES=3600,
    CELERY_QUEUES=(
        Queue('default', routing_key='tasks.#'),

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Edward Snowden at IETF 93

Edward Snowden answered questioned after a showing of CITIZENFOUR at the IETF93 meeting; this is a transcript of the video recording.

For more information, see the Internet Society article.

• Introduction
• Scale of Pervasive Monitoring
• Returning to the US
• Preserving the Internet

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