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

garybernhardt

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It's now here, in The Programmer's Compendium. The content is the same as before, but being part of the compendium means that it's actively maintained.

aryairani

-- This gist shows how we can use abilities to provide nicer syntax for any monad.
-- We can view abilities as "just" providing nicer syntax for working with the
-- free monad.

ability Monadic f where
  eval : f a -> a

-- Here's a monad, encoded as a first-class value with
-- two polymorphic functions, `pure` and `bind`
type Monad f = Monad (forall a . a -> f a) (forall a b . f a -> (a -> f b) -> f b)

chrismccord

mix.exs

Add these functions to the bottom of mix.exs:

  # Specifies which paths to compile per environment
  defp elixirc_paths(:test), do: ["lib", "web", "test/support"]
  defp elixirc_paths(_),     do: ["lib", "web"]