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

Daniel15

using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using Cairo;
using Gtk;

public class GtkDimScreen
{
	private DrawingArea drawingArea;
	

Zren

/**
**   ____            _     ___  ___                  _          _ 
**  |  _ \          | |    |  \/  |                 | |        (_)
**  | | \ |__ _ _ __| | __ | .  . | ___  _ __   ___ | | __ __ _ _ 
**  | | | | _` | '__| |/ / | |\/| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \| |/ // _` | |
**  | |_/ /(_| | |  |   <  | |  | | (_) | | | | (_) |   <| (_| | |
**  |____/\__,_|_|  |_|\_\ \_|  |_/\___/|_| |_|\___/|_|\_\\__,_|_|
**                                                                
**      Quassel Theme
** 

walkermatt

from threading import Timer


def debounce(wait):
    """ Decorator that will postpone a functions
        execution until after wait seconds
        have elapsed since the last time it was invoked. """
    def decorator(fn):
        def debounced(*args, **kwargs):
            def call_it():

simX

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool YES;
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionDisabled;

// by the way, you need to logout and log back in for this to take effect.  Or at least that's what
// Quartz Debug says.  Who knows, maybe it's lying?

// P.S. Go to [Apple menu --> System Preferences --> Displays --> Display --> Scaled] after logging
// back in, and you'll see a bunch of "HiDPI" resolutions in the list to choose from.

UniIsland

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""Simple HTTP Server With Upload.

This module builds on BaseHTTPServer by implementing the standard GET
and HEAD requests in a fairly straightforward manner.

"""

klange

Since this is on Hacker News and reddit...

• No, I don't distribute my résumé like this. A friend of mine made a joke about me being the kind of person who would do this, so I did (the link on that page was added later). My actual résumé is a good bit crazier.
• I apologize for the use of _t in my types. I spend a lot of time at a level where I can do that; "reserved for system libraries? I am the system libraries".
• Since people kept complaining, I've fixed the assignments of string literals to non-const char *s.
• My use of type * name, however, is entirely intentional.
• If you're using an older compiler, you might have trouble with the anonymous unions and the designated initializers - I think gcc 4.4 requires some extra braces to get them working together. Anything reasonably recent should work fine. Clang and gcc (newer than 4.4, at le

gregrickaby

/* Reset
------------------------------------------------------------ */
body#ttrssMain,
body#ttrssPrefs,
body#ttrssLogin,
body {
    color: #000;
    font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;
    font-size: 100%; /* Set to default browser size, 16px */
    line-height: 1.5;

offlinehacker

#!/usr/bin/python

import flac.encoder as encoder
import pyaudio
import sys
import requests
import random

from threading import Thread
from Queue import Queue, Empty

hamgammon

#GPG Offline Master Key + Smart Card#

This is a local copy of the commands from:

• http://www.jmknoble.net/keys/#master-key
• http://www.macfreek.nl/mindmaster/Convert_GPG_keys_to_subkeys
• http://wiki.fsfe.org/Card_howtos/Card_with_subkeys_using_backups/

This guide serves as a reference of collected information necessary for strict management of PGP keys. This includes keeping a master key that always remains