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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

@lattner
lattner / TaskConcurrencyManifesto.md
Last active May 1, 2024 15:48
Swift Concurrency Manifesto
@gtallen1187
gtallen1187 / slope_vs_starting.md
Created November 2, 2015 00:02
A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept

"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept"

01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140

Here's today's thought for the weekend. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept.

[Laughter]

@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active May 1, 2024 03:34
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname
@mobilemind
mobilemind / git-tag-delete-local-and-remote.sh
Last active April 30, 2024 23:36
how to delete a git tag locally and remote
# delete local tag '12345'
git tag -d 12345
# delete remote tag '12345' (eg, GitHub version too)
git push origin :refs/tags/12345
# alternative approach
git push --delete origin tagName
git tag -d tagName
@jimbojsb
jimbojsb / gist:1630790
Created January 18, 2012 03:52
Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

@kyranjamie
kyranjamie / countries.enum.ts
Last active April 28, 2024 09:30
TypeScript enum Country Codes ISO 3166
export enum Country {
Afghanistan = 'AF',
AlandIslands = 'AX',
Albania = 'AL',
Algeria = 'DZ',
AmericanSamoa = 'AS',
Andorra = 'AD',
Angola = 'AO',
Anguilla = 'AI',
Antarctica = 'AQ',

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

@myusuf3
myusuf3 / delete_git_submodule.md
Created November 3, 2014 17:36
How effectively delete a git submodule.

To remove a submodule you need to:

  • Delete the relevant section from the .gitmodules file.
  • Stage the .gitmodules changes git add .gitmodules
  • Delete the relevant section from .git/config.
  • Run git rm --cached path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
  • Run rm -rf .git/modules/path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
  • Commit git commit -m "Removed submodule "
  • Delete the now untracked submodule files rm -rf path_to_submodule
@mshafrir
mshafrir / states_hash.json
Created May 9, 2012 17:05
US states in JSON form
{
"AL": "Alabama",
"AK": "Alaska",
"AS": "American Samoa",
"AZ": "Arizona",
"AR": "Arkansas",
"CA": "California",
"CO": "Colorado",
"CT": "Connecticut",
"DE": "Delaware",