kdkorthauer

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9
gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install r-base libapparmor1 libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev gdebi-core
sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev
sudo apt-get install libxt-dev
sudo apt-get install git-core

sudo /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024

dcardozo

#!/bin/bash

#
# Convenient script for starting/stopping multiple applications, each one
# executing inside its own iTerm tab.
#
# Based on iTerm2 version 2.1.4 and applescripts examples from:
# https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/Applescript
#
# For iTerm2 version 2.9 and up see applescripts examples at:

tsiege

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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