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

torsten

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# A quick and dirty implementation of an HTTP proxy server in Ruby
# because I did not want to install anything.
# 
# Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Torsten Becker <torsten.becker@gmail.com>
# 
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,

simme

# First install tmux
brew install tmux

# For mouse support (for switching panes and windows)
# Only needed if you are using Terminal.app (iTerm has mouse support)
Install http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php
Then install https://bitheap.org/mouseterm/

# More on mouse support http://floriancrouzat.net/2010/07/run-tmux-with-mouse-support-in-mac-os-x-terminal-app/

burke

ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.

dhh

class ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper
  def draw(routes_name)
    instance_eval(File.read(Rails.root.join("config/routes/#{routes_name}.rb")))
  end
end

BCX::Application.routes.draw do
  draw :api
  draw :account
  draw :session

mislav

thinkerbot

# Two ENV variables control the 'gem' command:
#
#   GEM_HOME: the single path to a gem dir where gems are installed
#   GEM_PATH: a standard PATH to gem dirs where gems are found
#
# A gem directory is a directory that holds gems.  The 'gem' command will lay
# out and utilize the following structure:
#  
#   bin               # installed bin scripts
#   cache             # .gem files  ex: cache/gem_name.gem

zcaceres

How to Eyeball Your ‘This’ Context in Javascript

by zach.dev

The early programmer struggles with the Javascript keyword this. But understanding your this context is easier than it seems.

This is all about where a function is invoked. Often, early programmers worry about where the function was declared. Perhaps the function was declared in a specific file or a particular object. Surely this changes it's this!

Nope.

namuol

rage-quit support for bash

HOW TO INSTALL

Put flip somewhere in your $PATH and chmod a+x it.

Copy fuck into ~/.bashrc.

abachman

For the last two years I've been using Ubuntu Linux for software development.
Last week I got a MacBook Pro and have been changing over. I run a heavily
customized vim setup, so the change was particularly difficult with regards to
my keyboard layout.

These step show what I did to make my Mac work like my Linux machines which all
have caps-lock remapped to control. I used OSX's built in keyboard setup tool
to remap my caps-lock key to be a command key, since command, for the most
part, takes the place of control as the primary shortcut key modifier.