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

tsabat

Prereq:

apt-get install zsh
apt-get install git-core

Getting zsh to work in ubuntu is weird, since sh does not understand the source command. So, you do this to install zsh

wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh

aemkei

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                    Version 2, December 2004

 Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE <YOUR_URL_HERE>

 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
 copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
 as the name is changed.

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

hellerbarde

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

sevastos

// Based on Glacier's example: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/guide/examples.html#Amazon_Glacier__Multi-part_Upload
var fs = require('fs');
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
AWS.config.loadFromPath('./aws-config.json');
var s3 = new AWS.S3();

// File
var fileName = '5.pdf';
var filePath = './' + fileName;
var fileKey = fileName;

victorvogelpoel

# Compare-Directory.ps1
# Compare files in one or more directories and return file difference results
# Victor Vogelpoel <victor@victorvogelpoel.nl>
# Sept 2013
#
# Disclaimer
# This script is provided AS IS without warranty of any kind. I disclaim all implied warranties including, without limitation,
# any implied warranties of merchantability or of fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk arising out of the use or
# performance of the sample scripts and documentation remains with you. In no event shall I be liable for any damages whatsoever
# (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information,

dwayne

Introduction

Author: Ari Lerner.

AngularJS offers a single framework that can be used to build dynamic, client-centric applications. It provides:

• Module support
• DOM manipulation
• Animations
• Templating

dmiddlecamp

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections.Generic;


public class SSEvent {
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Data { get; set; }

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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bradwilson

// Don't do this, because you don't need async if you're only calling one
// downstream async method and returning its value, unprocessed.
public async Task<int> DoSomething(int x, int y)
{
    return await SlowMath.AddAsync(x, y);
}

// Do this instead:
public Task<int> DoSomething(int x, int y)
{