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

aras-p

// Just before switching jobs:
// Add one of these.
// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
//
// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
//
// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

rxaviers

People

:bowtie:	😄 :smile:	😆 :laughing:
😊 :blush:	😃 :smiley:	☺️ :relaxed:
😏 :smirk:	😍 :heart_eyes:	😘 :kissing_heart:
😚 :kissing_closed_eyes:	😳 :flushed:	😌 :relieved:
😆 :satisfied:	😁 :grin:	😉 :wink:
😜 :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:	😝 :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:	😀 :grinning:
😗 :kissing:	😙 :kissing_smiling_eyes:	😛 :stuck_out_tongue:

alirobe

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### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script: 
### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex
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mubix

• How to Build a Successful Information Security Career (Daniel Miessler)
  • https://danielmiessler.com/blog/build-successful-infosec-career/#gs.DtVCbbw
• The First Steps to a Career in Information Security (Errata Security - Marisa Fagan)
  • http://blog.erratasec.com/2010/04/first-steps-to-career-in-information.html#.WFrbofkrIuU
• Hiring your first Security Professional (Peerlyst - Dawid Balut)
  • https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/hiring-your-first-security-professional-dawid-balut
• How to Start a Career in Cyber security
  • https://www.concise-courses.com/security/how-to-start-your-career/
• How to Get Into Information Security (ISC^2)
• https://www.isc2.org/how-to-get-into-information-security.aspx

ptarjan

Scaling your API with rate limiters

The following are examples of the four types rate limiters discussed in the accompanying blog post. In the examples below I've used pseudocode-like Ruby, so if you're unfamiliar with Ruby you should be able to easily translate this approach to other languages. Complete examples in Ruby are also provided later in this gist.

In most cases you'll want all these examples to be classes, but I've used simple functions here to keep the code samples brief.

Request rate limiter

This uses a basic token bucket algorithm and relies on the fact that Redis scripts execute atomically. No other operations can run between fetching the count and writing the new count.

opus-x

##################################################################################
#         ELIMINATE SPOTIFY ADS (VERSION 1.2 - 8.5) - ABANDONED FOR NOW          #
##################################################################################
#
# NOTE: SOMETIMES ONLY ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN AD WHILE USING APP VERSION 7.5-7.9?-8.x.
# USING AN OFFICIAL OLDER VERSION SOLVES THIS. TEST IT (APKMIRROR). THIS WILL NOT
# OCCUR USING CHROMECAST / GOOGLE HOME.
#
# COULD NOT SOLVE THE AUDIO AD INRO/OUTRO IN THE APP.
# SUGGESTIONS? WRITE A COMMENT BELOW.

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

kaushikgopal

[buildPlans.kg]                 # <kg> is your plan name
family = "Iosevka KG Terminal"          # Font menu family name
design = [
            "cv08", "cv11", "cv19", "cv43", "cv49", "cv55", "cv62", "cv92",
            # `g`,  `l`,    `y`,    `G`,    `Q`,    `*`,    `$` and `%`
            "no-ligation"
         ] # Customize styles
hintParams = ["-a", "sss"]              # Optional custom parameters for ttfautohint

sm-Fifteen

"What the heck is a Yubikey and why did I buy one?": A user guide

(EDIT: Besides Reddit, I've also put this up on Github Gist)

So while looking for information on security keys before getting one myself, I got very confused reading about all the different modes and advertised features of Yubikeys and other similar dongles. The official documentation tends to be surprisingly convoluted at times, weirdly organized and oddly shy about a few of the limitations of these keys (which I'm making a point of putting front and center). Now that I have one, I decided to write down everything I figured out in order to help myself (and hopefully some other people reading this) make sense of all this.

Since I'm partly writing these notes for myself, there might be some back and forth between "exp