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

henrik

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

liuw

#!/usr/bin/env python
# liuw
# Nasty hack to raise exception for other threads

import ctypes # Calm down, this has become standard library since 2.5
import threading
import time

NULL = 0

vadimg

import threading
import functools
import logging

def timeout(duration, default=None):
    def decorator(func):
        class InterruptableThread(threading.Thread):
            def __init__(self, args, kwargs):
                threading.Thread.__init__(self)
                self.args = args

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

randomecho

/*
Taken and cribbed from blog.datalicious.com/free-download-all-australian-postcodes-geocod

May contain errors where latitude and longitude are off. Use at own non-validated risk.
*/

SET NAMES utf8;
SET sql_mode = 'NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO';

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS postcodes_geo;

mybeky

http://devstreaming.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2013/400xex2xbskwa5bkxr17zihju9uf/400/400-HD.mov?dl=1
	dir=~/Downloads/WWDC 2013/Tools/
	out=Session 400 - What’s New in Xcode 5.mov
http://devstreaming.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2013/400xex2xbskwa5bkxr17zihju9uf/400/400.pdf?dl=1
	dir=~/Downloads/WWDC 2013/Tools/
	out=Session 400 - What’s New in Xcode 5.pdf
http://devstreaming.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2013/401xbx2xq50gv7mqafyfdns2yhxl/401/401-HD.mov?dl=1
	dir=~/Downloads/WWDC 2013/Tools/
	out=Session 401 - Xcode Core Concepts.mov
http://devstreaming.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2013/401xbx2xq50gv7mqafyfdns2yhxl/401/401.pdf?dl=1

JaviSoto

@interface UIView (JSParallaxEffect)

- (void)js_addParallaxEffectWithMaxOffset:(CGFloat)maxOffset;

@end

igrigorik

alias gh="open \`git remote -v | grep git@github.com | grep fetch | head -1 | cut -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1 | sed -e's/:/\//' -e 's/git@/http:\/\//'\`"

sloria

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

• "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
• "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens