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vrinek / gist:bda51f6fc8b22b5df301
Last active February 10, 2024 20:21
Blizzard Software Engineering Reading

Blizzard Software Engineering Reading

by Jay Baxter (circa 2009)

Associate developer

"This list is for people who want to become Associate Software Engineers at Blizzard. An associate should have skills at the level indicated by these books. Note that this is almost completely focused on C++ programming. This list is incomplete. I need a book on how to become a professional. I've listed several books that give examples of professional behavior, but not one on the actual training."

Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Chaser324 / GitHub-Forking.md
Last active April 17, 2024 22:46
GitHub Standard Fork & Pull Request Workflow

Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j

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chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

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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darktable / app.yaml
Created March 16, 2011 19:10
GAE: App.yaml designed for serving a static site on Google App Engine (Python). Copy your static html and files into a folder called "static" next to app.yaml. Contains a bunch of mimetype declarations from html5boilerplate's .htaccess. May not be neces
application: you-app-name-here
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1
default_expiration: "30d"
handlers:
- url: /(.*\.(appcache|manifest))
mime_type: text/cache-manifest