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

trey

Creating a Happy Git Environment on OS X

Step 1: Install Git

brew install git bash-completion

Configure things:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

joaoneto

var request = require('supertest'),
  should = require('should'),
  app = require('../server');
 
var Cookies;
 
describe('Functional Test <Sessions>:', function () {
  it('should create user session for valid user', function (done) {
    request(app)
      .post('/v1/sessions')

drulabs

curl -i -H 'Content-type: application/json' -H 'Authorization: key=<your_server_key>' -XPOST https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send -d '{
  "registration_ids":["registration_ids", "of the", "target", "devices as array"],
  "notification": {
      "title":"Title of your notification",
      "body":"content of your notification"
  },
  "data": {
    "key1" : "value1",
    "key2" : "value2",
    "key3" : 23.56565,

justinribeiro

{
  // Some basic lighthouse testing using docker, lighthouse-cli, jq, tr Note,
  // you must search/replace the test url (no var support in tasks.json
  // currently)
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "tasks": [
    // NOTE: you don't have to run the container to make this work, you can
    // simply change the lighthouse commands as required below to work with your
    // setup (I find the container easier)
    {