chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

spion

Understanding this in JavaScript

It's easy to trip up on the meaning of this in JavaScript. The behavior is very different from other languages, which means we have to throw most preconceptions and intuition out the window.

The best way to think of this in JS is as a hidden function argument which is passed in a slightly awkward way. Instead of the normal passing of arguments:

fn(arg1, arg2, arg3)

gtallen1187

"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept"

01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140

Here's today's thought for the weekend. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept.

[Laughter]

jaredsburrows

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               | |_| |/ _` |/ __| |/ / |  _ \ / _` |/ __| |/ / |
               |  _  | (_| | (__|   <  | |_) | (_| | (__|   <|_|
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                                  A DIY Guide

djspiewak

Thread Pools

Thread pools on the JVM should usually be divided into the following three categories:

1. CPU-bound
2. Blocking IO
3. Non-blocking IO polling

Each of these categories has a different optimal configuration and usage pattern.

rimatla

Ps: The current setup was done on 01-04-19

Project Dependency Versions at the time 👇

  "react": "^16.7.0",
  "react-dom": "^16.7.0",
  "react-scripts": "2.1.3",
  "typescript": "^3.2.2"
  "tslint": "^5.12.0",
  "tslint-config-prettier": "^1.17.0",

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

bymustfa

function numToWord(number) {
    const list1 = ['', 'bir', 'iki', 'üç', 'dört', 'beş', 'altı', 'yedi', 'sekiz', 'dokuz', 'on', 'onbir ', 'oniki ', 'onüç', 'ondört', 'onbeş', 'onaltı', 'onyedi', 'onsekiz', 'ondokuz'];
    const list2 = ['', '', 'yirmi', 'otuz', 'kırk', 'elli', 'altmış', 'yetmiş', 'seksen', 'doksan'];
    const list3 = ['', 'bin', 'milyon', 'milyar', 'trilyon', 'katrilyon'];
    let string = '';
    for (let i = 0; i < list3.length; i++) {
        let number = number % (100 * Math.pow(1000, i));
        if (Math.floor(number / Math.pow(1000, i)) !== 0) {
            if (Math.floor(number / Math.pow(1000, i)) < 20) {
                string = list1[Math.floor(number / Math.pow(1000, i))] + list3[i] + '' + string;

0xabad1dea

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

rain-1

Raspberry Pi, Static HTTPS site with Docker and Nginx

This tutorial is dated Oct 2021, if it's much further on than that this information might be out of date.

This is a guide on setting up a static HTTPS website on your raspberry pi using docker and nginx. The aim is to have this running on the raspberry pi and to be able to access it from a host computer on the same local network. You should already be able to ssh into your pi from your host computer and have raspberry pi OS set up.

Find your raspberry pi