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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

@bpierre
bpierre / Makefile
Created November 5, 2011 17:34
A Makefile to concatenate / minify my JS Scripts and convert/compress my Stylus (CSS preprocessor) files
# JS files
JS_FINAL = js/project-name-all.js
JS_TARGETS = js/file1.js \
js/file2.js \
js/file3.js
# CSS files
CSS_FINAL = css/project-name-all.css
STYLUS_TARGETS = css/file1.styl \
@mbostock
mbostock / .block
Last active April 6, 2023 11:58
Epicyclic Gearing
license: gpl-3.0
redirect: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/epicyclic-gearing
@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active October 12, 2025 14:49
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname
@hzlzh
hzlzh / gist:3128038
Created July 17, 2012 08:31
console.log() snippet for Sublime Text 2
<snippet>
<!-- put this file in /packages/User/<Folder Name>/console_log.sublime-snippet then restart your Sublime Text 2 -->
<content><![CDATA[console.log($1);$0]]></content>
<tabTrigger>conl</tabTrigger>
<scope>text.html,source.js</scope>
<description>console.log()</description>
</snippet>
<snippet>
<!-- put this in another file /packages/User/<Folder Name>/console_dir.sublime-snippet then restart your Sublime Text 2 -->
@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active May 20, 2025 13:11
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

@javisantana
javisantana / index.html
Last active October 1, 2017 14:41
mapbox.js + cartodb.core.js - useful when you want to show cartodb tiles on top of mapbox layers
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charaset=utf-8 />
<title>mapbox.js + cartodb.js</title>
<meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no' />
<script src='https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v1.6.2/mapbox.js'></script>
<link href='https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v1.6.2/mapbox.css' rel='stylesheet' />
<script src='https://cartodb-libs.global.ssl.fastly.net/cartodb.js/v3/cartodb.core.js'></script>
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active October 14, 2025 19:39
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@ericelliott
ericelliott / fp-lingo.md
Last active February 2, 2023 23:33
A Guide to Functional Programming Lingo for JavaScripters

A Guide to Functional Programming Lingo for JavaScripters

Functional programming gets a bad wrap about being too hard for mere mortals to comprehend. This is nonsense. The concepts are actually quite simple to grasp.

The jargon is the hardest part. A lot of that vocabulary comes from a specialized field of mathematical study called category theory (with a liberal sprinkling of type theory and abstract algebra). This sounds a lot scarier than it is. You can do this!

All examples using ES6 syntax. wrap (foo) => bar means:

function wrap (foo) {
import Html exposing (..)
import Html.App exposing (..)
import Html.Attributes exposing (..)
import Html.Events exposing (..)
import Html.Attributes exposing (..)
import Http
import Task exposing (Task)
import Json.Decode as Json exposing ((:=))
type Msg