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

matteodellamico

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arokem

import numpy as np
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def mosaic(vol, fig=None, title=None, size=[10,10], vmin=None, vmax=None,
           return_mosaic=False, cbar=True, return_cbar=False, **kwargs):
    """
    Display a 3-d volume of data as a 2-d mosaic

    Parameters

lushl9301

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Pipeline multiprocessing in Python with generators

Similar to mpipe, this short module lets you string together tasks so that they are executed in parallel.

The difference is that it lets you use generators, functions which yield results instead of returning them. Each yielded item gets passed to the next stage.

You can specify that one or more copies of the workers operate on the input queue.

Things that can be in a stage

MisterPixels

#!/bin/bash

folder=$1 #store the first given arguement to folder
seconds=$2 #store the second given arguement to seconds

if [ $1 == "kill" ] # if the first arguement is "kill" then kill the script wallpaperslideshow.sh
then
	killall wallpaperslideshow.sh # kills the script wallpaperslideshow.sh
else # else run the following
	while [ true ] # creates a infinite loop