start new:
tmux
start new with session name:
tmux new -s myname
/* | |
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; |
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 |
#!/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 |
As configured in my dotfiles.
start new:
tmux
start new with session name:
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