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srfrog / irs-get-human.md
Created April 5, 2024 02:34 — forked from getaaron/irs-get-human.md
Get a person at the IRS
  • Call 1-800-829-1040
  • Press 1 for English (or other language as desired)
  • Press 2 for personal tax
  • Press 1 for form / tax history
  • Press 3 for other
  • Press 2 for other
  • Ignore 2 SSN prompts till you get secret other menu
  • Press 2 for personal tax
  • Press 3 for other
  • Wait for agent!

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

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How Software Companies Die
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- Orson Scott Card
The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and
marketing types - and vice versa.
Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When
you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into
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srfrog / camphor.scss
Created May 6, 2020 07:16 — forked from bdno86/camphor.scss
camphor
$camphor300:'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srfrog / randstr_test.go
Created January 17, 2020 19:38
Random string generation
package randstr_test
import (
"crypto/rand"
weak "math/rand"
"testing"
"time"
)
const (
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srfrog / cuid.sql
Created November 27, 2019 03:49
CUIDs for PL/PgSQL
-- Collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and performance, for PL/PgSQL.
-- Based on https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid
-- Version 1.0.0
-- Usage: SELECT cuid();
-- BEGIN CONFIG ---
-- Put a unique host ID (int) here per server instance.
-- Once set, this value should not be changed.
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srfrog / main.go.c
Created November 19, 2019 06:55 — forked from nelhage/main.go.c
A Go/C polyglot
// \
/*
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello, World from C!\n");
return 0;
}
#if 0
//*/
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srfrog / theorem_test.go
Created March 28, 2019 03:01
Go: flatten an array of arbitrarily nested arrays of integers into a flat array of integers
// The MIT License (MIT)
//
// Copyright (c) 2019, @srfrog
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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srfrog / dgraph-1.tf
Created February 22, 2019 19:37
Dgraph deploy configuration (v0)
locals {
tls_dev = false
}
# Dgraph zero config for development
resource "dgraph_node" "zero_dev" {
use_tls = ${local.tls_dev}
}
# Dgraph alpha config for development
import bisect
class NFA(object):
EPSILON = object()
ANY = object()
def __init__(self, start_state):
self.transitions = {}
self.final_states = set()
self._start_state = start_state