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

paranoiq

#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

piotrplenik

<?php

public function validateKey($value) 
{
  $key_parts = explode(' ', $value, 3);

  if (count($key_parts) < 2) {
    return false;
  }

chill117

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Place this file in the Electrum scripts directory. Then run from command line, like this: `~/.electrum/scripts/get_address_history.py <bitcoin_address>`.

import sys
from electrum import bitcoin, Network, print_json, SimpleConfig, Wallet, WalletStorage

try:
	addr = sys.argv[1]
except Exception:
	print 'Usage: ' + sys.argv[0] + ' <bitcoin_address>'

carolynvs

wget http://download.mono-project.com/repo/xamarin.gpg
sudo apt-key add xamarin.gpg
echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian wheezy main" | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mono-complete

sudo certmgr -ssl -m https://go.microsoft.com
sudo certmgr -ssl -m https://nugetgallery.blob.core.windows.net
sudo certmgr -ssl -m https://nuget.org
mozroots --import --sync

cabal95

#!/bin/bash
#

BACKUPDEST="$1"
DOMAIN="$2"
MAXBACKUPS="$3"

if [ -z "$BACKUPDEST" -o -z "$DOMAIN" ]; then
    echo "Usage: ./vm-backup <backup-folder> <domain> [max-backups]"
    exit 1

cecilemuller

How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SLL rating)

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Virtual hosts

Let's say you want to host domains first.com and second.com.

Create folders for their files:

balloob

#define wifi_ssid "YOUR_WIFI_NAME"
#define wifi_password "YOUR_WIFI_PASSWORD"

#define mqtt_server "MQTT_SERVER"
#define mqtt_user "MQTT_USER"
#define mqtt_password "MQTT_PASS"

#define ac_topic "device/study_room/ac"
#define temperature_topic "device/study_room/temperature"
#define humidity_topic "device/study_room/humidity"

zaiste

FILES=*.rst
for f in $FILES
do
  filename="${f%.*}"
  echo "Converting $f to $filename.md"
  `pandoc $f -f rst -t markdown -o $filename.md`
done

tommyready

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace CloudFlareApiClient
{
    class Program
    {