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`vs` Questions

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/804115 (rebase vs merge).
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing (rebase vs merge)
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/undoing-changes/ (reset vs checkout vs revert)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2221658 (HEAD^ vs HEAD~) (See git rev-parse)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/292357 (pull vs fetch)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39651 (stash vs branch)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8358035 (reset vs checkout vs revert)

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

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

What's an Effective Engineer?

5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

The hottest repositories created in the last week.
The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
Issue trends by language.
Clojure projects defying convention.

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

#HTML presentation tools

There are many HTML presentation tools and they are all created for slightly different reasons. Here's an overview. Please let me know if I forgot any.

##CSSS

CSS-based SlideShow System

	Package: com.example.package
	Name: Example Package
	Description: An example package.
	This longer description will load when a depiction URL is not specified.
	Author: Ms. Example <example@example.com>
	Maintainer: Example, Inc. <example-inc@example.com>
	Version: 1.0-1
	Section: Addons (SpringBoard)
	Pre-Depends: com.example.system
	Depends: com.example.library

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <sys/socket.h>
	#include <linux/netlink.h>
	#include <linux/connector.h>
	#include <linux/cn_proc.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <errno.h>

	struct __attribute__ ((aligned(NLMSG_ALIGNTO))) nlcn_msg {
	struct nlmsghdr nl_hdr;

	import processing.serial.*;

	int SIDE_LENGTH = 1000;
	int ANGLE_BOUNDS = 80;
	int ANGLE_STEP = 2;
	int HISTORY_SIZE = 10;
	int POINTS_HISTORY_SIZE = 500;
	int MAX_DISTANCE = 100;

	int angle;

	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

	#include <linux/module.h> /* Needed by all modules */
	#include <linux/kernel.h> /* Needed for KERN_INFO */
	#include <linux/init.h> /* Needed for the macros */
	#include <linux/interrupt.h>
	#include <linux/irq.h>
	#include <plat/gpio.h>
	#include <asm/gpio.h>
	#include <plat/am33xx.h>
	#include <asm/io.h>