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

shazron

#!/bin/bash
#
# Build and iPhone Simulator Helper Script
# Shazron Abdullah 2011
#
# WARN: - if your .xcodeproj name is not the same as your .app name, 
#		    this won't work without modifications
#		- you must run this script in where your .xcodeproj file is

PROJECTNAME=$1

vmihailenco

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/hex"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"log"
	"net"

btoone

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

adamwiggins

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

leroux

Haskell Resources

• Learning Haskell
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
  • Learn You A Haskell Exercises
• Real World Haskell
• FPComplete's School of Haskell
• Haskell Wikibook
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours
• Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell

kachayev

## Alexey Kachayev, 2014
## Link to slides:
## http://goo.gl/n4ylC4

## Basic:
## type Parser = String -> Tree

## Composition
## type Parser = String -> (Tree, String)

acolyer

Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

• http://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/jamesrh_lisa.pdf

Basic tenets

• Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
• Have we kept things as simple as possible?

johnynek

use std::comm::{Receiver, channel};
use std::io;
use std::mem::replace;
use std::task::spawn;

struct Future<'a, A> {
  state: FutureState<'a, A>
}

leonardofed

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

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