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

kaleb

#~/.mutt/aliases
alias nick		Nicholas Levandoski	<nick.levandoski@auglug.org>
alias tim		Timothy Pitt		<timothy.pitt@auglug.org>
alias steven		Steven Jackson		<sjackson@auglug.org>
alias kaleb		Kaleb Hornsby		<kaleb.hornsby@auglug.org>
alias alug-admin	nick, tim, steven

bryanl

# put this at ~/.gitconfig

[alias]

  # I'm lazy, so two letters will always trump the full command
  co = checkout
  ci = commit
  cp = cherry-pick
  st = status
  br = branch

rgreenjr

-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 
ORDER BY query_start desc;

-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 

jeffnem

cheat sheets.
$ cheat git

Setup
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git clone <repo>
  clone the repository specified by <repo>; this is similar to "checkout" in
  some other version control systems such as Subversion and CVS

pascalpoitras

Mouse

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enable

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scottjehl

I wanted to figure out the fastest way to load non-critical CSS so that the impact on initial page drawing is minimal.

TL;DR: Here's the solution I ended up with: https://github.com/filamentgroup/loadCSS/

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For async JavaScript file requests, we have the async attribute to make this easy, but CSS file requests have no similar standard mechanism (at least, none that will still apply the CSS after loading - here are some async CSS loading conditions that do apply when CSS is inapplicable to media: https://gist.github.com/igrigorik/2935269#file-notes-md ).

Seems there are a couple ways to load and apply a CSS file in a non-blocking manner:

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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egerlach

#!/bin/bash

# before you can use this, you need to run (as root):
# git clone https://github.com/tt/stack-images.git /root/stack-images
# git clone https://github.com/gliderlabs/herokuish.git /root/herokuish

# First, we need to get our base ubuntu images up to date
docker pull ubuntu-debootstrap:14.04
docker pull ubuntu:trusty # for postgresql

a0s

#!ruby

# Requirements:
#   brew install trash

casks_path = '/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom'

class Version < Array
  def initialize s
    super(s.split('.').map { |e| e.to_i })