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

panicsteve

Dear soon-to-be-former user,

We've got some fantastic news!  Well, it's great news for us anyway.  You, on 
the other hand, are fucked.

We've just been acquired by:

[ ] Facebook
[ ] Google
[ ] Twitter

ryangray

/*
    Buttondown
    A Markdown/MultiMarkdown/Pandoc HTML output CSS stylesheet
    Author: Ryan Gray
    Date: 15 Feb 2011
    Revised: 21 Feb 2012
   
    General style is clean, with minimal re-definition of the defaults or 
    overrides of user font settings. The body text and header styles are 
    left alone except title, author and date classes are centered. A Pandoc TOC 

adaugherity

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use RGB mode for Display
# see http://embdev.net/topic/284710

require 'base64'

data=`ioreg -l -d0 -w 0 -r -c AppleDisplay`

edids=data.scan(/IODisplayEDID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i).flatten
vendorids=data.scan(/DisplayVendorID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten

ejdyksen

patch-edid.rb

A script to fix EDID problems on external monitors in macOS.

Instructions

1. Connect only the problem display.

2. Create this directory structure (if it doesn't already exist):

kevin-smets

Default

Powerlevel10k

kadin2048

#!/usr/bin/env python3

""" Converts a directory full of .eml files to a single Unix "mbox" file.
This is similar to http://www.cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html

Accepts as input either an individual .eml file or a directory containing one
or more .eml files.

Usage:
$ ./emlToMbox.py inputdir/ output.mbox

primaryobjects

m3u8 Downloading

1. Open Chrome Developer tools and click the Network tab.
2. Navigate to the page with the video and get it to start playing.
3. Filter the list of files to "m3u8".
4. Find master.m3u8 or index.m3u8 and click on it.
5. Save the file to disk and look inside it.
6. If the file contains a single m3u8 master url, copy that one instead.
7. Run the program m3u8x.
8. Paste the same m3u8 url in both textboxes (URL and Quality URL) and click "Headers" and set the referral url and user-agent from the request as found in Chrome.

ayyybe

#!/bin/bash

CYAN="$(tput bold; tput setaf 6)"
RESET="$(tput sgr0)"

clear

if command -v python3 > /dev/null 2>&1; then
	if [ $(python3 -c "print('ye')") = "ye" ]; then
		clear

joevt

#!/bin/bash

# by joevt Jan 7/2021


dodump=1
if [[ "$1" == "-s" ]]; then
	dodump=0
	shift
fi