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FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

@vidaaudrey
vidaaudrey / ie67891011-css-hacks.txt
Created June 19, 2016 20:52 — forked from ricardozea/ie67891011-css-hacks.txt
IE CSS hacks - IE6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
IE6 Only
==================
_selector {...}
IE6 & IE7
==================
*html or { _property: }
IE7 Only
==================
@vasanthk
vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active November 18, 2024 01:50
System Design Cheatsheet

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

  1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system
  • User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
    • Who is going to use it?
    • How are they going to use it?
@octocat
octocat / .gitignore
Created February 27, 2014 19:38
Some common .gitignore configurations
# Compiled source #
###################
*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
*.so
# Packages #
@ricardozea
ricardozea / ie67891011-css-hacks.txt
Last active February 2, 2023 15:17
IE CSS hacks - IE6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
IE6 Only
==================
_selector {...}
IE6 & IE7
==================
*html or { _property: }
IE7 Only
==================
@marcedwards
marcedwards / high-dpi-media.css
Last active November 19, 2023 12:56
A CSS media query that captures almost all high DPI aware devices.
/* ---------------------------------------------------------- */
/* */
/* A media query that captures: */
/* */
/* - Retina iOS devices */
/* - Retina Macs running Safari */
/* - High DPI Windows PCs running IE 8 and above */
/* - Low DPI Windows PCs running IE, zoomed in */
/* - Low DPI Windows PCs and Macs running Firefox, zoomed in */
/* - Android hdpi devices and above */