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

glnds

Less Cheatsheet

less {filename}

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tbrianjones

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cpursley

PostgreSQL is Enough

• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Just Use Postgres for Everything
• Just use Postgres
• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
• Postgres is eating the database world
• Hacker News discussion

Background and Cron Jobs

curran

A TopoJSON file of time zones, derived from https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder. Simplified using Mapshaper.

CSV table from IBM - Time zone IDs that can be specified for the user.timezone property.

hediet

type StringBool = "true"|"false";


interface AnyNumber { prev?: any, isZero: StringBool };
interface PositiveNumber { prev: any, isZero: "false" };

type IsZero<TNumber extends AnyNumber> = TNumber["isZero"];
type Next<TNumber extends AnyNumber> = { prev: TNumber, isZero: "false" };
type Prev<TNumber extends PositiveNumber> = TNumber["prev"];

isaacs

// See comments below.

// This code sample and justification brought to you by
// Isaac Z. Schlueter, aka isaacs

// standard style
var a = "ape",
  b = "bat",
  c = "cat",
  d = "dog",

areed1192

name: Selecting Ranges
description: This code leverages different ways to select cells using the Office API.
host: EXCEL
api_set: {}
script:
  content: |
    $("#run1").click(() => tryCatch(workingWithRanges));

    async function workingWithRanges() {
      await Excel.run(async (context) => {

leoloobeek

# first: mkdir user && cd user && cp /path/to/get_gists.py .
# python3 get_gists.py user
import requests
import sys
from subprocess import call

user = sys.argv[1]

r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/{0}/gists'.format(user))

speric

                               Lesson 1 SUMMARY


  1. The cursor is moved using either the arrow keys or the hjkl keys.
         h (left)       j (down)       k (up)       l (right)

  2. To start Vim from the shell prompt type:  vim FILENAME <ENTER>

  3. To exit Vim type:     <ESC>   :q!   <ENTER>  to trash all changes.
             OR type:      <ESC>   :wq   <ENTER>  to save the changes.