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

bclinkinbeard

#!/bin/bash

# current Git branch
branch=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD | sed -e 's,.*/\(.*\),\1,')

# v1.0.0, v1.5.2, etc.
versionLabel=v$1

# establish branch and tag name variables
devBranch=develop

henrik

# Start by checking if they fixed it upstream:

brew update
brew upgrade reattach-to-user-namespace 

# If it says it's already installed, they haven't fixed it upstream. So do this:

# Edit the recipe:
brew edit reattach-to-user-namespace

swannodette

;; based on core.logic 0.8-alpha2 or core.logic master branch

(ns sudoku
  (:refer-clojure :exclude [==])
  (:use clojure.core.logic))

(defn get-square [rows x y]
  (for [x (range x (+ x 3))
        y (range y (+ y 3))]
    (get-in rows [x y])))

vorburger

	/**
	 * Returns a free port number on localhost.
	 * 
	 * Heavily inspired from org.eclipse.jdt.launching.SocketUtil (to avoid a dependency to JDT just because of this).
	 * Slightly improved with close() missing in JDT. And throws exception instead of returning -1.
	 * 
	 * @return a free port number on localhost
	 * @throws IllegalStateException if unable to find a free port
	 */
	private static int findFreePort() {

NelsonMinar

// This is the core Javascript code for http://windhistory.com/
// I haven't done a full open source release, but I figured I'd put the most important
// D3 code out there for people to learn from.   --nelson@monkey.org

/** Common wind rose code **/

// Function to draw a single arc for the wind rose
// Input: Drawing options object containing
//   width: degrees of width to draw (ie 5 or 15)
//   from: integer, inner radius

josevalim

Sinatra like routes in Rails controllers

A proof of concept of having Sinatra like routes inside your controllers.

How to use

Since the router is gone, feel free to remove config/routes.rb. Then add the file below to lib/action_controller/inline_routes.rb inside your app.

KylePDavis

#!/bin/bash -e
# A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SCRIPT GOES HERE
# USAGE:
#    DESCRIPTION OF ENV VARS HERE
###############################################################################
set -e          # exit on command errors (so you MUST handle exit codes properly!)
set -o pipefail # capture fail exit codes in piped commands
#set -x         # execution tracing debug messages

# Get command info

shadowhand

#!/bin/bash

usage() {
	echo "usage: git switchbranch"
}

version() {
    echo "switchbranch v0.0.2"
}

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application: