dkbrummitt

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

dkbrummitt

### Quickly setup your Mac for Development
# 1.  Open the AppStore and download and install XCode.
# 2.  Run the following at the command line. 

xcode-select --install
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew tap caskroom/cask

#Make sure potential sub dirs from brew installs exist
mkdir -p /usr/local/sbin

dkbrummitt

if _, err := os.Stat("/path/to/whatever"); os.IsNotExist(err) {
	// path/to/whatever does not exist
}

if _, err := os.Stat("/path/to/whatever"); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
	// path/to/whatever exists
}

dkbrummitt

pprof

With a single import _ "net/http/pprof" you can add profiling endpoints to a HTTP server.

package main

import (
	"fmt"

dkbrummitt

1. Change your database RDS instance security group to allow your machine to access it.
   • Add your ip to the security group to acces the instance via Postgres.
2. Make a copy of the database using pg_dump
   • $ pg_dump -h <public dns> -U <my username> -f <name of dump file .sql> <name of my database>
   • you will be asked for postgressql password.
   • a dump file(.sql) will be created
3. Restore that dump file to your local database.
   • but you might need to drop the database and create it first
   • $ psql -U <postgresql username> -d <database name> -f <dump file that you want to restore>

• the database is restored

dkbrummitt

1. Clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream

dkbrummitt

1. Copy m3u8 link

2. Run command

echo "Enter m3u8 link:";read link;echo "Enter output filename:";read filename;ffmpeg -i "$link" -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -vcodec copy -c copy -crf 50 $filename.mp4

dkbrummitt

Go (Golang) GOOS and GOARCH

All of the following information is based on go version go1.8.3 darwin/amd64.

A list of valid GOOS values

(Bold = supported by go out of the box, ie. without the help of a C compiler, etc.)

• android
• darwin

dkbrummitt

# Set up Go for accessibility from the terminal
export GOPATH=$HOME/golang
#export GOROOT=/usr/local/bin/go/libexec
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
#export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

dkbrummitt

Revert the full commit

Sometimes you may want to undo a whole commit with all changes. Instead of going through all the changes manually, you can simply tell git to revert a commit, which does not even have to be the last one. Reverting a commit means to create a new commit that undoes all changes that were made in the bad commit. Just like above, the bad commit remains there, but it no longer affects the the current master and any future commits on top of it.

git revert {commit_id}'

About History Rewriting

Delete the last commit

Deleting the last commit is the easiest case. Let's say we have a remote origin with branch master that currently points to commit dd61ab32. We want to remove the top commit. Translated to git terminology, we want to force the master branch of the origin remote repository to the parent of dd61ab32: