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

CristinaSolana

1. Clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream

BrockA

/*--- waitForKeyElements():  A utility function, for Greasemonkey scripts,
    that detects and handles AJAXed content.

    Usage example:

        waitForKeyElements (
            "div.comments"
            , commentCallbackFunction
        );

ThomasWunderlich

The most likely reason is that cron runs in a very limited environment and doesn't have access to gsutil or to gsutil's configuration.To fix this you should set your Path variable and the gsutil configuration inside your script like so:


#!/bin/bash
PATH=path/to/gsutil
export BOTO_CONFIG="/path/to/.boto"

#rest of script here

dfalster

##' Modifies 'data' by adding new values supplied in newDataFileName
##'
##' newDataFileName is expected to have columns 
##' c(lookupVariable,lookupValue,newVariable,newValue,source)
##' 
##' Within the column 'newVariable', replace values that
##' match 'lookupValue' within column 'lookupVariable' with the value
##' newValue'.  If 'lookupVariable' is NA, then replace *all* elements
##' of 'newVariable' with the value 'newValue'.
##'

tommct

After spending many hours trying to get FreeTDS and unixodbc to run on a Mac OS X 10.8 system with the python module, pyodbc, I eventually came to this recipe, which is remarkably simple thanks to homebrew. I also found unixodbc was unnecessary and I couldn't get it to play well with FreeTDS, so this install does not include unixodbc. See also http://www.acloudtree.com/how-to-install-freetds-and-unixodbc-on-osx-using-homebrew-for-use-with-ruby-php-and-perl/ and http://www.cerebralmastication.com/2013/01/installing-debugging-odbc-on-mac-os-x/.

Prerequisites: Be sure you have XCode and the Commandline Tools for XCode installed from Apple. Also install homebrew followed with brew update and brew doctor.

Install FreeTDS:

brew install freetds

Test your install:

jdeboer

# Please replace this sample profile ID with that of your own
# Google Analytics profile.
profile_id <- 123456789

# Please ensure you have all of the following libraries
# installed first.
library(ganalytics)
library(httr)
library(XML)
library(lubridate)

randyzwitch

#Plot data using ggplot2
library(ggplot2)

#Combine year/month/day together into POSIX
pageviews_w_forecast$date <- ISOdate(pageviews_w_forecast$year, pageviews_w_forecast$month, pageviews_w_forecast$day)

#Convert columns to numeric
pageviews_w_forecast$pageviews <- as.numeric(pageviews_w_forecast$pageviews)
pageviews_w_forecast$pageviews_upper <- as.numeric(pageviews_w_forecast$pageviews_upper)
pageviews_w_forecast$pageviews_lower <- as.numeric(pageviews_w_forecast$pageviews_lower)

sloria

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

• "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
• "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

blackfalcon

Git-workflow vs feature branching

When working with Git, there are two prevailing workflows are Git workflow and feature branches. IMHO, being more of a subscriber to continuous integration, I feel that the feature branch workflow is better suited, and the focus of this article.

If you are new to Git and Git-workflows, I suggest reading the atlassian.com Git Workflow article in addition to this as there is more detail there than presented here.

I admit, using Bash in the command line with the standard configuration leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to awareness of state. A tool that I suggest using follows these instructions on setting up GIT Bash autocompletion. This tool will assist you to better visualize the state of a branc