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.
It's now here, in The Programmer's Compendium. The content is the same as before, but being part of the compendium means that it's actively maintained.
My friend Michael Jackson turned off github issues on one of his smaller projects. It got me thinking...
Maintainers getting burned out is a problem. Not just for the users of a project but the mental health of the maintainer. It's a big deal for both parties. Consumers want great tools, maintainers want to create them, but maintainers don't want to be L1 tech support, that's why they
| # To Setup: | |
| # 1) Save the .git-completion.bash file found here: | |
| # https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | |
| # 2) Add the following lines to your .bash_profile, be sure to reload (for example: source ~/.bash_profile) for the changes to take effect: | |
| # Git branch bash completion | |
| if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then | |
| . ~/.git-completion.bash | |
| # Add git completion to aliases |
| // Just before switching jobs: | |
| // Add one of these. | |
| // Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge. | |
| // | |
| // This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public", | |
| // and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions. | |
| // I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here. | |
| // | |
| // Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_, | |
| // @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant, |
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/migrations.html
| 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 |
