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

jexchan

Multiple SSH Keys settings for different github account

create different public key

create different ssh key according the article Mac Set-Up Git

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@youremail.com"

martijnvermaat

SSH agent forwarding and screen

When connecting to a remote server via SSH it is often convenient to use SSH agent forwarding so that you don't need a separate keypair on that server for connecting to further servers.

This is enabled by adding the

ForwardAgent yes

option to any of your Host entries in ~/.ssh/config (or alternatively with the -A option). Don't set this option in a wildcard Host * section since any user on the remote server that can bypass file permissions can now als use keys loaded in your SSH agent. So only use this with hosts you trust.

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

xjamundx

This is the follow up to a post I wrote recently called From Require.js to Webpack - Party 1 (the why) which was published in my personal blog.

In that post I talked about 3 main reasons for moving from require.js to webpack:

1. Common JS support
2. NPM support
3. a healthy loader/plugin ecosystem.

Here I'll instead talk about some of the technical challenges that we faced during the migration. Despite the clear benefits in developer experience (DX) the setup was fairly difficult and I'd like to cover some of the challanges we faced to make the transition a bit easier.

nikcub

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

huyng

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Reflects the requests from HTTP methods GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE
# Written by Nathan Hamiel (2010)

from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from optparse import OptionParser

class RequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    
    def do_GET(self):

bradmontgomery

Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

Purchase the cert

rodw

#!/bin/bash 
# A simple script to backup an organization's GitHub repositories.

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# NOTES:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# * Under the heading "CONFIG" below you'll find a number of configuration
#   parameters that must be personalized for your GitHub account and org.
#   Replace the `<CHANGE-ME>` strings with the value described in the comments
#   (or overwrite those values at run-time by providing environment variables).

stormwild

http://brainwreckedtech.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/howto-convert-vdis-between-fixed-sized-and-dynamic-in-virtualbox/ http://www.webdesignblog.asia/software/linux-software/resize-virtualbox-disk-image-manipulate-vdi/#comment-474

While there is no way to actually switch a VDI between fixed-size and dynamic, you can clone the existing VDI into a new one with different settings with VBoxManage.

VBoxManage clonehd [old-VDI] [new-VDI] --variant Standard
VBoxManage clonehd [old-VDI] [new-VDI] --variant Fixed

If you want to expand the capacity of a VDI, you can do so with