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

andreyvit

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

robinsloan

require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require "json"

# things you must configure
TWITTER_USER = "your_username"
MAX_AGE_IN_DAYS = 1 # anything older than this is deleted

# get these from dev.twitter.com
CONSUMER_KEY = "your_consumer_key"

windytan

# Oona Räisänen 2013
# http://windytan.com

# ssh-keygen -l -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | perl emoji.pl

@emoji = qw( 🌀  🌂  🌅  🌈  🌙  🌞  🌟  🌠  🌰  🌱  🌲  🌳  🌴  🌵  🌷  🌸 
             🌹  🌺  🌻  🌼  🌽  🌾  🌿  🍀  🍁  🍂  🍃  🍄  🍅  🍆  🍇  🍈 
             🍉  🍊  🍋  🍌  🍍  🍎  🍏  🍐  🍑  🍒  🍓  🍔  🍕  🍖  🍗  🍘 
             🍜  🍝  🍞  🍟  🍠  🍡  🍢  🍣  🍤  🍥  🍦  🍧  🍨  🍩  🍪  🍫 
             🍬  🍭  🍮  🍯  🍰  🍱  🍲  🍳  🍴  🍵  🍶  🍷  🍸  🍹  🍺  🍻 

ochronus

# install sysbench
$ apt-get install sysbench

# CPU benchmark, 1 thread
$ sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 run

# CPU benchmark, 64 threads
$ sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=64 run

# Disk benchmark, random read. See .fio files in this gist

mo6020

/*
Change DB name, location, and vpxuser password to whatever you wish.
Ed Morgan [ed.morgan@ansgroup.co.uk] - 16/01/2013
*/

use [master]
go
CREATE DATABASE [vCentre_Server] ON PRIMARY
(NAME = N'vCentre_Server', FILENAME = N'E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\vCentre_Server.mdf' , SIZE = 3000KB , FILEGROWTH = 10% )
LOG ON

mo6020

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Ed Morgan [ed@edmorgan.info]
# version 1.2 
# 11/09/2015
# Install Hombrew first!

# Make sure we’re using the latest Homebrew
echo "Updating brews..."
brew update

rodaine

Based on the Tomorrow Night Eighties theme

Paste the following in the Preferences > Sidebar Theme > Custom Theme import/export field:

#2d2d2d,#393939,#6699cc,#FFFFFF,#515151,#cccccc,#99cc99,#f2777a

robinsloan

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require "json"
require "faraday"

# things you must configure
TWITTER_USER = "your_username"

# get these from dev.twitter.com