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

mastbaum

'''Example of a custom ReST directive in Python docutils'''
import docutils.core
from docutils.nodes import TextElement, Inline
from docutils.parsers.rst import Directive, directives
from docutils.writers.html4css1 import Writer, HTMLTranslator

class foo(Inline, TextElement):
    '''This node class is a no-op -- just a fun way to define some parameters.
    There are lots of base classes to choose from in `docutils.nodes`.

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

Gioyik

#!/bin/sh -e

#Define our target device
export TARGET_ARCH="-march=armv7-a"
export TARGET_TUNE="-mtune=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp -mthumb-interwork -mno-thumb"

#Define the cross compilators on your system
export AR="arm-linux-gnueabi-ar"
export CC="arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc"
export CXX="arm-linux-gnueabi-g++"

oknowton

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

# This script prints a bell character when a command finishes
# if it has been running for longer than $zbell_duration seconds.
# If there are programs that you know run long that you don't
# want to bell after, then add them to $zbell_ignore.
#
# This script uses only zsh builtins so its fast, there's no needless
# forking, and its only dependency is zsh and its standard modules
#

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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rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

olee

// create a bookmark and use this code as the URL, you can now toggle the css on/off
// thanks+credit: https://dev.to/gajus/my-favorite-css-hack-32g3
javascript: (function() {
	var styleEl = document.getElementById('css-layout-hack');
	if (styleEl) {
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		return;
	}
	styleEl = document.createElement('style');
	styleEl.id = 'css-layout-hack';

growthboot

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// thanks+credit: https://dev.to/gajus/my-favorite-css-hack-32g3
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