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

tylerneylon

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kneath

Welcome to the User's Guide

Remember, it's all just text.

FoldingText does some neat things, but in the end you are just typing. If you know how to type, you already know most of what you need to effectively use FoldingText.

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marc-hanheide

#
# You will need to change these variables...
#


# The host name or IP address of the SSH server that we are
# sending the connection request to:
SERVER_HOSTNAME=harek

iamralch

import (
	"archive/tar"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
	"strings"
)

func tarit(source, target string) error {

gblmarquez

# Default termtype. If the rcfile sets $TERM, that overrides this value.
set -g default-terminal screen-256color

# support logging out and back in
set -g update-environment "SSH_ASKPASS SSH_AUTH_SOCK SSH_AGENT_PID SSH_CONNECTION"

# pbcopy support
set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l bash"

# vi mode

apolloclark

Postgres Cheatsheet

This is a collection of the most common commands I run while administering Postgres databases. The variables shown between the open and closed tags, "<" and ">", should be replaced with a name you choose. Postgres has multiple shortcut functions, starting with a forward slash, "". Any SQL command that is not a shortcut, must end with a semicolon, ";". You can use the keyboard UP and DOWN keys to scroll the history of previous commands you've run.

Setup

installation, Ubuntu

http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL

jojonas

from __future__ import print_function

import sys
import argparse
import os.path
import textwrap
import re
from pprint import pprint
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

sosedoff

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "reflect"
)

// Name of the struct tag used in examples
const tagName = "validate"