marktheunissen

This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.

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

csanz

Debugging your Mongoose Models Using Repl

This is a faster way to test your mongoose models. The example below was based on the expressjs-blog example here

Example

$node
> var mongoose = require('mongoose')
> var db = mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/blogsample')

> db.model('BlogPost', require('./app/models/blogpost'))

romac

TEMP_DIR:=$(shell mktemp -d -t /tmp)
MARKDOWN=perl Resources/Markdown.pl
WKHTMLTOPDF=/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
BUILD_DIR=Build
MD_OUTPUT=Documentation.md
HTML_OUTPUT=Documentation.html
PDF_OUTPUT=Documentation.pdf
COVER=__Couverture