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

mattpascoe

#!/usr/bin/awk -f
#
# Author: Matt Pascoe - matt@opennetadmin.com
#
# This awk script is used to extract relavant information from a dhcpd.conf
# config file and build dcm.pl output with appropriate fields.  This can be
# used to bootstrap a new database from existing site data.
# As usual, inspect the output for accuracy.
# Also you will get three types of output, subnet,pool,host.  You must
# add the subnet information first, then pool, then host.

l15n

# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ai %ar by %an" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r

Lukasa

import os
import socket
import struct

# These constants map to constants in the Linux kernel. This is a crappy
# way to get at them, but it'll do for now.
RTMGRP_LINK = 1

NLMSG_NOOP = 1
NLMSG_ERROR = 2

njames

#!/bin/sh

ECHO='echo '
for branch in $(git branch -a | sed 's/^\s*//' | sed 's/^remotes\///' | grep -v 'main$\|develop$'); do
  if ! ( [[ -f "$branch" ]] || [[ -d "$branch" ]] ) && [[ "$(git log $branch --since "1 month ago" | wc -l)" -eq 0 ]]; then
    if [[ "$DRY_RUN" = "false" ]]; then
      ECHO=""
    fi
    local_branch_name=$(echo "$branch" | sed 's/remotes\/origin\///')
    $ECHO git branch -d "${local_branch_name}"

kimus

First of all, it just seems like doing anything with Oracle is obnoxiously painful for no good reason. It's the nature of the beast I suppose. cx_oracle is a python module that allows you to connect to an Oracle Database and issue queries, inserts, updates..usual jazz.

Linux

Step 1:

sudo apt-get install build-essential unzip python-dev libaio-dev

Step 2. Click here to download the appropriate zip files required for this. You'll need:

jhamrick

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Generate a set of TLS credentials that can be used to run development mode.
#
# Based on script by Ash Wilson (@smashwilson)
# https://github.com/cloudpipe/cloudpipe/pull/45/files#diff-15
#
# usage: sh ./genkeys.sh NAME HOSTNAME IP

set -o errexit

marcan

#!/boot/bzImage

# Linux kernel userspace initialization code, translated to bash
# (Minus floppy disk handling, because seriously, it's 2017.)
# Not 100% accurate, but gives you a good idea of how kernel init works
# GPLv2, Copyright 2017 Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
# Based on Linux 4.10-rc2.

# Note: pretend chroot is a builtin and affects the current process
# Note: kernel actually uses major/minor device numbers instead of device name

ryboe

# use the latest ubuntu environment (18.04) available on travis
dist: bionic

language: go

# You don't need to test on very old versions of the Go compiler. It's the user's
# responsibility to keep their compiler up to date.
go:
  - 1.16.x

datagrok

When you cancel a Jenkins job

Unfinished draft; do not use until this notice is removed.

We were seeing some unexpected behavior in the processes that Jenkins launches when the Jenkins user clicks "cancel" on their job. Unexpected behaviors like:

• apparently stale lockfiles and pidfiles
• overlapping processes
• jobs apparently ending without performing cleanup tasks
• jobs continuing to run after being reported "aborted"