jezhumble

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

jarmitage

import urllib
import datetime as dt
import pytz
from PIL import Image
import numpy as np
import subprocess
import socket
import os

dir = '/FULL/PATH/TO/SCRIPT/DIR'

ericelliott

Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

matijs

;(function(handlers) {
	if (!handlers) {
		throw new Error('Nothing to handle');
	}

	document.documentElement.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
		var handler = event.originalTarget.getAttribute('data-handler');
		if (!handler) {
			// nothing to do
			return;

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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rmccue

Commit Guidelines

Commit messages are one of the most important parts of using version control. Badly written messages make it much harder to see at a glance what's changed in the project.

Commit Content

Keep your commits as small and atomic as possible. The best way to consider this is to think about reverting your commit. That is, if something is wrong in a commit, what are the logically separate parts that could be undone?

lucasfais

Sublime Text 2 – Useful Shortcuts (Mac OS X)

General

⌘T	go to file
⌘⌃P	go to project
⌘R	go to methods
⌃G	go to line
⌘KB	toggle side bar
⌘⇧P	command prompt