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

robinsmidsrod

Add the following chunk to your existing ISC dhcpd.conf file.

if exists user-class and ( option user-class = "iPXE" ) {
    filename "http://boot.smidsrod.lan/boot.ipxe";
}
else {
    filename "undionly.kpxe";
}

(or see https://gist.github.com/4008017 for a more elaborate setup

zyxar

/* Exercise: Loops and Functions #43 */
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"math"
)

func Sqrt(x float64) float64 {
	z := float64(2.)

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

ctalkington

source :rubygems
gem "puma"
gem "sinatra"

daemon.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

Thread.new do
  loop do
    puts "background thread in #{$$} woke"
    sleep(1)
  end
end

sleep(2)

davidandrzej

//
// TIL Scala Map.mapValues returns a lazy view
// 
// This has the horrific consequence that supplying a non-pure function
// can yield a result map with unexpected / undesired behavior (see below)
//
// Further discussion here: 
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14882642/scala-why-mapvalues-produces-a-view-and-is-there-any-stable-alternatives
// https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4776
// 

SaveTheRbtz

#!/bin/bash
#
# Copyright (c) 2015, Intel Corporation
#
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
#
#     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
#       this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
#     * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright

rygorous

This just got linked to by the Y combinator news account, without proper context,
so a brief introduction: A month ago (end of May / early June 2014) I had a
Twitter conversation with a bunch of acquaintances. One tweet in the middle
of that thread, with obligatory hyperbole, was me saying that I think VR is
bad news.

Well, that part of the thread (but not the rest that provides context) recently
got retweeted, and then someone asked me if I could explain what I mean by that,
and because Twitter is a great platform for delivering 140 character slogans and
not so great for lengthy explanations, I wrote this. So, obligatory disclaimer:

yelirekim

#What is a commit?

In the simplest literal terms possible, a commit represents a change to lines of code in a revision control system, along with a description. The mechanics of most VCSes don't prescribe anything beyond that simple model. It's a concept that has been in use (and misuse) for a little over 40 years, and a central concept in every major version control system ever released. Given that, and the fact that you're reading this document, and the fact that this document is in a revision control system, you're probably already familiar with this concept.

You are probably also familiar with people making "bad commits", but what you might not be familiar with is a team that makes only "good commits", and more particularly the organizational implications of doing so. This document aims to explore those implications.

In order to get a good conceptual framework for ho