klaaspieter

From time to time, Musk will send out an e-mail to the entire company to enforce a new policy or let them know about something that's bothering him. One of the more famous e-mails arrived in May 2010 with the subject line: Acronyms Seriously Suck:

There is a creeping tendency to use made up acronyms at SpaceX. Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important. Individually, a few acronyms here and there may not seem so bad, but if a thousand people are making these up, over time the result will be a huge glossary that we have to issue to new employees. No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don't want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.

That needs to stop immediately or I will take drastic action - I have given enough warning over the years. Unless an acronym is approved by me, it should not enter the SpaceX glossary.

tomer-ben-david

val byteArray: Array[Byte] = Array(1,2)
val bos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(filename))
Stream.continually(bos.write(byteArray))
bos.close() // You may end up with 0 bytes file if not calling close.

Kartones

PSQL

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):

• -E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
• -l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)

dolzenko

import bidding_pb2

rq = bidding_pb2.BidResponse()
f = open('bid_response.bin', "rb")
rq.ParseFromString(f.read())
print(rq)
f.close()

rq = bidding_pb2.BidRequest()
f = open('bid_request.bin', "rb")