From time to time, Musk will send out an e-mail to the entire company to enforce a new policy or let them know about something that's bothering him. One of the more famous e-mails arrived in May 2010 with the subject line: Acronyms Seriously Suck:
There is a creeping tendency to use made up acronyms at SpaceX. Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important. Individually, a few acronyms here and there may not seem so bad, but if a thousand people are making these up, over time the result will be a huge glossary that we have to issue to new employees. No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don't want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.
That needs to stop immediately or I will take drastic action - I have given enough warning over the years. Unless an acronym is approved by me, it should not enter the SpaceX glossary.
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Django bulk upsert | |
Does not attempt to cover all corner cases and related models. | |
Originally from http://people.iola.dk/olau/python/bulkops.py | |
Heavily modified by Luka Kladaric hello@luka.io | |
''' | |
from itertools import repeat | |
from django.db import models, connections, transaction |
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Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) | |
BSD License | |
""" | |
import numpy as np | |
# data I/O | |
data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file | |
chars = list(set(data)) | |
data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars) |
(by @andrestaltz)
If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.
A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.
I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.
I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.
I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.
I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".
from collections import namedtuple | |
def convert(dictionary): | |
return namedtuple('GenericDict', dictionary.keys())(**dictionary) | |
""" | |
>>> d = dictionary(a=1, b='b', c=[3]) | |
>>> named = convert(d) | |
>>> named.a == d.a | |
True | |
>>> named.b == d.b |