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

tokumine

-- this SQL can be used to calculate the rank of a given user in a game, 
-- and the names/scores of those just above and below him.
-- This is useful in online games or citizen science projects where you 
-- just want to see the 'proximity' of other users around you, not the entire global rank

-- I want to find the rank and score for user_3, and other users 3 above and 3 below.
WITH global_rank AS (
  SELECT name, score, rank() OVER (ORDER BY score DESC) FROM scores
)
SELECT * FROM global_rank 

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

dholbrook

/**
 * D Holbrook
 *
 * Code Club: PO1
 *
 * (*) Define a binary tree data structure and related fundamental operations.
 *
 * Use whichever language features are the best fit (this will depend on the language you have selected).  The following operations should be supported:
 *
 *    Constructors

barrypitman

/**
 * Provide the correct response URL to turbolinks in the 'X-XHR-Current-Location' header. Used to update the browser 
 * history after an ajax request is redirected.
 *
 * @author barry
 * @since 2013/01/24 11:46 AM
 */
public class TurboLinksUrlFilter implements Filter {

    /**

quiver

# vim: set fileencoding=utf8
'''
References
- http://stackoverflow.com/a/1966188
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(data_structure)

$ python suggest.py prefix
'''
import sys
import redis

wh5a

package quickcheck

import common._

import org.scalacheck._
import Arbitrary._
import Gen._
import Prop._
import Math._

jacius

pub struct Heap<T> {
    data: Vec<T>
}

impl<T: PartialOrd> Heap<T> {
    /// Create a new empty heap.
    pub fn new() -> Heap<T> {
        Heap { data: Vec::<T>::new() }
    }

craffel

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def draw_neural_net(ax, left, right, bottom, top, layer_sizes):
    '''
    Draw a neural network cartoon using matplotilb.
    
    :usage:
        >>> fig = plt.figure(figsize=(12, 12))
        >>> draw_neural_net(fig.gca(), .1, .9, .1, .9, [4, 7, 2])
    

paulirish

/* bling.js */

window.$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);

Node.prototype.on = window.on = function (name, fn) {
  this.addEventListener(name, fn);
}

NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;