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my book is out! an applied psychology / self-help book targeted at developers: Debugging Your Brain
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Markdown --> EPUB and MOBI
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martinwicke
/ automobile.ipynb
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Estimator demo using Automobile dataset
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jvilledieu
/ import_EU_tendersv2.cql
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October 24, 2022 20:23
Importing the European Union tenders into Neo4j
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| //----------------------- | |
| //Clean everything | |
| //----------------------- | |
| MATCH (n) | |
| OPTIONAL MATCH (n)-[r]-() | |
| DELETE n,r; | |
| //----------------------- | |
| //Import authorities | |
| //----------------------- |
wsalesky
/ search.xql
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June 18, 2014 18:03
Main search xquery. imports @andersoncliffb's render.xqm module
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| xquery version "3.0"; | |
| import module namespace search = "http://xqueryinstitute.org/search" at "search.xqm"; | |
| import module namespace render = "http://xqueryinstitute.org/render" at "render.xqm"; | |
| declare variable $q {request:get-parameter('q','')}; | |
| declare variable $rows {request:get-parameter('rows',5) cast as xs:integer}; | |
| <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> | |
| <head></head> |
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| <xh:html | |
| xmlns:xh="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" | |
| xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" | |
| xmlns:xxf="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/xforms" | |
| xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> | |
| <xh:head> | |
| <xf:model xxf:expose-xpath-types="true"> | |
| <xf:instance> | |
| <data> | |
| <a/> |
chitchcock
/ 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
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October 12, 2011 15:53
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
