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

iros

Title

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• URL

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• Method:

rab

# -*- Conf -*-
[color]
	branch = auto
	diff = auto
	status = auto
        showbranch = auto
	ui = true

# color.branch
#     A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or

ShawnMilo

from uuid import UUID

def validate_uuid4(uuid_string):

    """
    Validate that a UUID string is in
    fact a valid uuid4.

    Happily, the uuid module does the actual
    checking for us.

esromneb

% Code from "Gauss elimination and Gauss Jordan methods using MATLAB"
% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMApKEKisKE

a = [3 4 -2 2 2
    4 9 -3 5 8
    -2 -3 7 6 10
    1 4 6 7 2];


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mlanett

HTTP status code symbols for Rails

Thanks to Cody Fauser for this list of HTTP responce codes and their Ruby on Rails symbol mappings.

Status Code Symbol
1xx Informational
100 :continue
101 :switching_protocols
102 :processing

domenic

Auto-deploying built products to gh-pages with GitHub Actions

This is a set up for projects which want to check in only their source files, but have their gh-pages branch automatically updated with some compiled output every time they push.

A file below this one contains the steps for doing this with Travis CI. However, these days I recommend GitHub Actions, for the following reasons:

• It is much easier and requires less steps, because you are already authenticated with GitHub, so you don't need to share secret keys across services like you do when coordinate Travis CI and GitHub.
• It is free, with no quotas.
• Anecdotally, builds are much faster with GitHub Actions than with Travis CI, especially in terms of time spent waiting for a builder.

iangreenleaf

Rails naming conventions

General Ruby conventions

Class names are CamelCase.

Methods and variables are snake_case.

Methods with a ? suffix will return a boolean.

reecer

#!/usr/bin/env bash

OUT_DIR=/opt/
URL='https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/linux-x64/stable'
DIR="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
TAR_FILE=$DIR/latest.tar.gz

curl -z $TAR_FILE -o $TAR_FILE -L $URL
tar xzf $TAR_FILE -C $OUT_DIR

NeoTheThird

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Godot Engine
Comment=An open source game engine. Need i say more?             
Exec=/bin/godot                  
Icon=.godot.jpeg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true