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mricon / ff
Last active September 25, 2019 07:15
Convenient wrapper for firejail and firefox
#!/bin/bash
# ff: convenient wrapper for firejail and firefox
#
# You can mix and match most keywords. Anything that's not a keyword
# will become the name of the private profile.
#
# Examples:
# ff
# - use basic defaults (no private directory, system resolver)
# ff 1dns personal
@dpino
dpino / ns-inet.sh
Last active May 13, 2025 10:00
Setup a network namespace with Internet access
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# set -x
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
echo "You must be root to run this script"
exit 1
fi
# Returns all available interfaces, except "lo" and "veth*".
@chitchcock
chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

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