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rajeevkannav / pdf2htmlEX.sh
Last active March 29, 2022 18:28
Install CMake, pkg-config,GNU Getopt,GCC,poppler,fontforge,pdf2htmlEX in Ubuntu 15.05
#!/bin/bash
# Ubuntu Developer Script For pdf2htmlEx
# Created by Rajeev Kannav Sharma
# http://rajeevkannav.github.io/
#
#
# Downloads and configures the following:
#
# CMake, pkg-config
# GNU Getopt
@octocat
octocat / .gitignore
Created February 27, 2014 19:38
Some common .gitignore configurations
# Compiled source #
###################
*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
*.so
# Packages #
@rosner
rosner / app.py
Created November 23, 2012 09:17
Simple flask app with user login, registration based on twitters bootstrap
from flask import Flask, render_template
from flask.ext.security import SQLAlchemyUserDatastore, Security
from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask.ext.bootstrap import Bootstrap
from flask_mail import Mail
from flask.ext.security import UserMixin, RoleMixin
app = Flask(__name__)
@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