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

atenni

Problem: When linking to the raw version of a gist, the link changes with each revision.

Solution:

To return the first file from a gist: https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/

• Example: https://gist.github.com/atenni/5604522/raw/
• Works even when you change the filename.

To get a file from multi–file gist: https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/[file_name]

dashed

/*! normalize.css v2.1.3 | MIT License | git.io/normalize */

/* ==========================================================================
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/**
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rxaviers

People

:bowtie:	😄 :smile:	😆 :laughing:
😊 :blush:	😃 :smiley:	☺️ :relaxed:
😏 :smirk:	😍 :heart_eyes:	😘 :kissing_heart:
😚 :kissing_closed_eyes:	😳 :flushed:	😌 :relieved:
😆 :satisfied:	😁 :grin:	😉 :wink:
😜 :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:	😝 :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:	😀 :grinning:
😗 :kissing:	😙 :kissing_smiling_eyes:	😛 :stuck_out_tongue:

cowboy-cod3r

# Ask use for input

# -e - if standard input is coming from a terminal, readline is used to obtain the line 
# -p - display prompt on stderr without a trailing new line 

default="/usr/locol/etc/"
read -e -p "Enter the path to the file [${default}]: " FILEPATH 
FILEPATH=${FILEPATH:-${default}}
echo $FILEPATH

stared

Software for scientists

Some things takes much less time and stress once you know the right tool. Below, there is a community edited list of software for scientists.

Text editors

in General purpose text/code editors. It may be better to have a good editor for everything, than different ones for different languages, scripts, notes.

jeanlescure

Ubuntu/Debian Offline Repository Creation Gist

When I googled how to create my own offline repository of packages for use in an offline Ubuntu/Debian machine, the results were disheartening and the steps to be taken scattered all over the place.

The files within this gist will allow you to:

• Download specific apt-get packages... with dependencies included!
• Create a Packages.gz file so that you can add the repository folder you create to the target machine's /etc/apt/sources.list file.

Before using

leostaples

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thegitfather

Vanilla JavaScript Quick Reference / Cheatsheet

Just migrated it from Codepen.io to markdown. Credit goes to David Conner.

Working with DOM	Working with JS	Working With Functions
Accessing Dom Elements	Add/Remove Array Item	Add Default Arguments to Function
Grab Children/Parent Node(s)	Add/Remove Object Properties	Throttle/Debounce Functions
Create DOM Elements	Conditionals

zerda

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fiddler2]
"BlockUpdateCheck"="True"