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Vestride / encoding-video.md
Last active March 12, 2024 16:41
Encoding video for the web

Encoding Video

Installing

Install FFmpeg with homebrew. You'll need to install it with a couple flags for webm and the AAC audio codec.

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac --with-opus
@chitchcock
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

@beathyate
beathyate / Gemfile
Created December 24, 2010 07:12
Cloudmailin Rails 3 Mongoid CarrierWave GridFS
source :rubygems
gem 'rails', '3.0.3'
gem 'mongo', '1.1.5'
gem 'bson', '1.1.5'
gem 'bson_ext', '1.1.5'
gem 'mongoid', '2.0.0.beta.20'
gem 'carrierwave'