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

ChrisWills

# GNU Screen - main configuration file 
# All other .screenrc files will source this file to inherit settings.
# Author: Christian Wills - cwills.sys@gmail.com

# Allow bold colors - necessary for some reason
attrcolor b ".I"

# Tell screen how to set colors. AB = background, AF=foreground
termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'

aemkei

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                    Version 2, December 2004

 Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE <YOUR_URL_HERE>

 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
 copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
 as the name is changed.

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

NikolasTzimoulis

package tm;

public final class MachinesLibrary 
{
	private MachinesLibrary() {}
	
	public static TuringMachine EqualBinaryWords()
	{
		TuringMachine newTM = new TuringMachine();
		newTM.addState("q1");

nikic

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

/* Data can be send to coroutines using `$coroutine->send($data)`. The sent data will then
 * be the result of the `yield` expression. Thus it can be received using a code like
 * `$data = yield;`.
 */

/* What we're building in this script is a coroutine-based streaming XML parser. The PHP

yihuang

{-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}
import qualified Data.IntMap as M
import Data.IORef
import Data.Unique

{--
 - listen :: Event a -> (a -> IO ()) -> IO ()
 - fire   :: Event a -> a -> IO ()
 -}

sgergely

----- Esc -----
Quick change directory: Esc + c
Quick change directory history: Esc + c and then Esc + h
Quick change directory previous entry: Esc + c and then Esc + p
Command line history: Esc + h
Command line previous command: Esc + p
View change: Esc + t (each time you do this shortcut a new directory view will appear)
Print current working directory in command line: Esc + a
Switch between background command line and MC: Ctrl + o
Search/Go to directory in active panel: Esc + s / Ctrl + s then start typing directory name

chris-taylor

data IOAction a = Return a
                | Put String (IOAction a)
                | Get (String -> IOAction a)

get   = Get Return
put s = Put s (Return ())

seqio :: IOAction a -> (a -> IOAction b) -> IOAction b
seqio (Return a) f = f a
seqio (Put s io) f = Put s (seqio io f)

disnet

sed '
  s/^>//
  t
  s/^ *$//
  t
  s/^/-- /
 ' in.lhs > out.hs