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

rmcgibbo

// Using the Jenkins Groovy Post build plugin to execute the following after every build
// https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Groovy+Postbuild+Plugin


// It would be nice not to have to specify these here... the repo name should be available within the hudson
// api somehow, but I didn't know how to get it. The access token should maybe be saved in a config file, and
// read in at runtime?
GITHUB_REPO_NAME = 'myusername/myreponame'
GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN = 'my_github_api_v3_access_token'

tsutsui

~
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      | |_| |    |  _ \  
      |  _  |    | (_))   
      | |-| |    | |      
      |_| |_|    |_|  ..  
 _   _     ____              _
| | | |   | __ )  ___   ___ | |_ 
| | | |___|  _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __| 
| |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_ 

yi

function string.fromhex(str)
    return (str:gsub('..', function (cc)
        return string.char(tonumber(cc, 16))
    end))
end

function string.tohex(str)
    return (str:gsub('.', function (c)
        return string.format('%02X', string.byte(c))
    end))

mathiasbynens

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=226801
url='https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/net/+/master/http/transport_security_state_static.json?format=TEXT';
curl -#s "${url}" | \
	base64 --decode | \
	sed '/^ *\/\// d' | \
	sed '/^\s*$/d' > hsts.json;

alirobe

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### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script: 
### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex
###
###

pvieito

#!/usr/bin/env python3
'''VGASimulator.py - Pedro José Pereira Vieito © 2016
  View VGA output from a VHDL simulation.

  Ported from VGA Simulator:
  https://github.com/MadLittleMods/vga-simulator
  by Eric Eastwood <contact@ericeastwood.com>

  More info about how to generate VGA output from VHDL simulation here:
  http://ericeastwood.com/blog/8/vga-simulator-getting-started

cryzed

Disclaimer: Please follow this guide being aware of the fact that I'm not an expert regarding the things outlined below, however I made my best attempt. A few people in IRC confirmed it worked for them and the results looked acceptable.

Attention: After following all the steps run gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache as root, this prevents various gdk-related bugs that have been reported in the last few hours. Symptoms are varied, and for Cinnamon the DE fails to start entirely while for XFCE the icon theme seemingly can't be changed anymore etc.

Check the gist's comments for any further tips and instructions, especially if you are running into problems!

Screenshots

Results after following the guide as of 11.01.2017 13:08:

ariankordi

<?php
// This works best on Apache, and if you have enable_post_data_reading off.
// Set "php_flag enable_post_data_reading off" in your htaccess. It'll avoid having to parse multipart forms.

// enter the sock to connect to here
const SOCK_TO_CONNECT_TO = './run.sock';

// Close the session right now, because it might make everything faster, and we don't know how long the response will last for.
session_write_close();

norcalli

#!/bin/sh
# Wrapper script around yay to try to ignore errors
# Copyright © 2019 Ashkan Kiani

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,