aileftech

$ grep -P "^[ABCDEFabcdefOoIi]{6,6}$" /usr/share/dict/words | tr 'OoIi' '0011' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' | awk '{print "#" $0}' 
#ACAD1A
#B0BB1E
#DEBB1E
#AB1DED
#ACAC1A
#ACCEDE
#AC1D1C
#BAB1ED
#BA0BAB

streeter

#!/bin/bash

# Generate a `:something-intensifies:` Slack emoji, given a reasonable image
# input. I recommend grabbing an emoji from https://emojipedia.org/

set -euo pipefail

if ! command -v identify &> /dev/null
then
  if [ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]; then

johnbeynon

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# Script to add a custom domain to a preview environment web service. Use it via the buildCommand
#
# Resultant custom domain added to the service will be:
# 	<servicename>-pr-<number>.prs.mydomain.com
# 
# Setup:
# 
# Add a wildcard DNS entry to your domain, something like *.prs.mydomain.com pointing to 216.57.24.1

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

gtallen1187

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

jm3

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, or, “Looking for the Mouse”

Clay Shirky / April 26, 2008

transcription of a speech [Clay Shirky] gave at the Web 2.0 in 2008, emphasis by @jm3

I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.

The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London.

And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of th

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