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

jlbruno

// found here http://forums.shopify.com/categories/2/posts/29259

var getOrdinal = function(n) {
   var s=["th","st","nd","rd"],
       v=n%100;
   return n+(s[(v-20)%10]||s[v]||s[0]);
}

carlzulauf

-- Haversine Formula based geodistance in miles (constant is diameter of Earth in miles)
-- Based on a similar PostgreSQL function found here: https://gist.github.com/831833
-- Updated to use distance formulas found here: http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/Calculate_distance_between_two_points_on_a_globe
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.geodistance(alat double precision, alng double precision, blat double precision, blng double precision)
  RETURNS double precision AS
$BODY$
SELECT asin(
  sqrt(
    sin(radians($3-$1)/2)^2 +
    sin(radians($4-$2)/2)^2 *

TylerFisher

Hey there, apparently people are still using this Gist from 2013! It's out of date! Consult the Github docs.

Steps for Hosting a Website on GitHub

1. Create a GitHub account on github.com.
2. Download either [GitHub for Mac][1] or [GitHub for Windows][2], depending on your operating system. Open the app and log in using the account you just created.
3. (On Mac): After you login, click advanced and make sure that your name and email are correct. Then, click "Install Command Line Tools", just in case you want to start using the command line later in life.
4. Create a new repository in your GitHub application. Name it your-username.github.io. The name is very important. Note the folder that GitHub is saving the repository to. Make sure the "Push to GitHub?" box is checked.
5. Move your website's files into the folder that GitHub just created when you made the repository. IMPORTANT: Your homepage HTML file must be called "index.html", and it must exist in the top-level

tomfa

// JSON to Uint8Array parsing and visa versa
// (Intended Bluetooth communication on Cordova)

var JsonToArray = function(json)
{
	var str = JSON.stringify(json, null, 0);
	var ret = new Uint8Array(str.length);
	for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
		ret[i] = str.charCodeAt(i);
	}

spalladino

# Backup
docker exec CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=root DATABASE > backup.sql

# Restore
cat backup.sql | docker exec -i CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysql -u root --password=root DATABASE

atoponce

Cryptographic Best Practices

Putting cryptographic primitives together is a lot like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, where all the pieces are cut exactly the same way, but there is only one correct solution. Thankfully, there are some projects out there that are working hard to make sure developers are getting it right.

The following advice comes from years of research from leading security researchers, developers, and cryptographers. This Gist was [forked from Thomas Ptacek's Gist][1] to be more readable. Additions have been added from

StevenACoffman

MicroService Proxy Gateway Solutions

Kong, Traefik, Caddy, Linkerd, Fabio, Vulcand, and Netflix Zuul seem to be the most common in microservice proxy/gateway solutions. Kubernetes Ingress is often a simple Ngnix, which is difficult to separate the popularity from other things.

Github Star Trend:

This is just a picture of this link from March 2, 2019

Originally, I had included some other solution

guettli

# Reliable persistent SSH-Tunnel via systemd (not autossh)
# https://gist.github.com/guettli/31242c61f00e365bbf5ed08d09cdc006#file-ssh-tunnel-service

[Unit]
Description=Tunnel for %i
After=network.target

[Service]
User=tunnel
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ssh -o "ExitOnForwardFailure yes" -o "ServerAliveInterval 60" -N tunnel@%i

ColonelBundy

Doxbee sequential
benchmarking ./doxbee-sequential/async-bluebird.js
{"time":428,"mem":60.38671875,"errors":0,"lastErr":null}
benchmarking ./doxbee-sequential/async-es2017-native.js
{"time":591,"mem":98.82421875,"errors":0,"lastErr":null}
benchmarking ./doxbee-sequential/async-es2017-util.promisify.js
{"time":479,"mem":69.7734375,"errors":0,"lastErr":null}
benchmarking ./doxbee-sequential/callbacks-baseline.js
{"time":149,"mem":29.99609375,"errors":0,"lastErr":null}