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@smoser
smoser / mdserv
Created October 11, 2011 16:48
simple python web server that mimicks ec2 instance metadata service
#!/usr/bin/python
"""
To use this to mimic the EC2 metadata service entirely, run it like:
# where 'eth0' is *some* interface. if i used 'lo:0' i got 5 second or so delays on response.
sudo ifconfig eth0:0 169.254.169.254 netmask 255.255.255.255
sudo ./mdserv 169.254.169.254:80
Then:
wget -q http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id -O -; echo
curl --silent http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id ; echo
@chitchcock
chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

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

@kaiwren
kaiwren / gist:1283905
Created October 13, 2011 10:13
Steve Yegge's SOA post
From: https://raw.github.com/gist/933cc4f7df97d553ed89/24386c6a79bb4b31fb818b70b34c5eab7f12e1ff/gistfile1.txt
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 effort
@paranoiq
paranoiq / key.regexp.txt
Last active January 3, 2024 14:30
public RSA key validation regexp
#ssh-rsa AAAA[0-9A-Za-z+/]+[=]{0,3} ([^@]+@[^@]+)#
// this is the most simple case. see more complete regexps in coments below
// http://generator.my-addr.com/generate_ssh_public_rsa_key-private_rsa_key-ssh_pair_online_tool.php
// https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys
// http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4716.txt
@robinsmidsrod
robinsmidsrod / _INSTALL.md
Last active July 26, 2024 01:29
Bootstrapping full iPXE native menu with customizable default option with timeout (also includes working Ubuntu 12.04 preseed install)

Add the following chunk to your existing ISC dhcpd.conf file.

if exists user-class and ( option user-class = "iPXE" ) {
    filename "http://boot.smidsrod.lan/boot.ipxe";
}
else {
    filename "undionly.kpxe";
}

(or see https://gist.github.com/4008017 for a more elaborate setup

@paulmillr
paulmillr / active.md
Last active July 15, 2024 10:55
Most active GitHub users (by contributions). http://twitter.com/paulmillr

Most active GitHub users (git.io/top)

The count of contributions (summary of Pull Requests, opened issues and commits) to public repos at GitHub.com from Wed, 21 Sep 2022 till Thu, 21 Sep 2023.

Only first 1000 GitHub users according to the count of followers are taken. This is because of limitations of GitHub search. Sorting algo in pseudocode:

githubUsers
 .filter(user => user.followers > 1000)
@sgergely
sgergely / gist:3793166
Created September 27, 2012 09:43
Midnight Commander Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac OSX
----- Esc -----
Quick change directory: Esc + c
Quick change directory history: Esc + c and then Esc + h
Quick change directory previous entry: Esc + c and then Esc + p
Command line history: Esc + h
Command line previous command: Esc + p
View change: Esc + t (each time you do this shortcut a new directory view will appear)
Print current working directory in command line: Esc + a
Switch between background command line and MC: Ctrl + o
Search/Go to directory in active panel: Esc + s / Ctrl + s then start typing directory name
@dypsilon
dypsilon / frontendDevlopmentBookmarks.md
Last active July 7, 2024 19:32
A badass list of frontend development resources I collected over time.
@plentz
plentz / nginx.conf
Last active July 27, 2024 16:11
Best nginx configuration for improved security(and performance)
# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048
@greem
greem / logstash-config-exim
Last active September 1, 2021 19:41
logstash-config-exim
input {
file {
path => "/path/to/exim/mainlog"
start_position => 'beginning'
sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
}
}
filter {