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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

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## Children Playing Blockchain

### Two different elementary school classes

Two teachers have decided to host games that simulate blockchains with their students,
rather than put in the large amount of effort required
to write legitimate curricula.

One class ends up playing the game "Proof-of-work":

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• Install
• Shell exports
• Directory explanations
• Automatic Imports
• Private repo access
• Guard (automatic go run)
• Godo
• Spurious
• AWS SDK with Go (inc. some old possibly broken examples)
• Build and Compilation

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由於 Google API 久久才會用一次，但它的文件對我來說實在是不好閱讀，應該花點時間把它筆記起來才是。

學習曲線分析

閱讀 Google API 使用文件，覺得難以閱讀的主要原因是它分成許多部分，每一部分不一定跟你要做的功能相關，而是在滿足你能使用 API 的基本條件。要攻略使用文件就必需清楚知道哪些是屬於「共通科目」、「必修科目」屬於任何產品的 API 使用前都必需滿足的。

內容分為下列主題：

1. API 的設計哲學：Service Discovery (描述 API 的 API)
2. API 開通與證認：API Console & OAuth 2

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Default values

$ sysctl kern.maxfiles
kern.maxfiles: 12288

$ sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc
kern.maxfilesperproc: 10240

$ ulimit -n

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Table Of Content

Skip to the relevant sections if needed.

• 2-min tutorial to do it the quick-and-dirty-way
• Concepts for resolving Git conflicts
• Setting up different editors / tool for using git mergetool
  • Finding out what mergetool editors are supported
• mergetool simple code example for vimdiff
  • Resolving conflict from a Git pull
• Other great references and tutorials

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Here's a list of mildly interesting things about the C language that I learned over time. There are many more mildly interesting features of C++, but the language is literally known for being weird, whereas C is usually considered smaller and simpler, so this is (almost) only about C.

1. Combined type and variable/field declaration, inside a struct scope [https://godbolt.org/g/Rh94Go]

struct foo {
   struct bar {
       int x;
   } baz;
};