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

insin

#!/bin/bash
#
# DESCRIPTION:
#
#   Set the bash prompt according to:
#    * the active virtualenv
#    * the branch/status of the current git repository
#    * the return value of the previous command
#    * the fact you just came from Windows and are used to having newlines in
#      your prompts.

brendanhay

Copy, with line wrapping!

If you've been trying to copy/paste text from a multi-pane tmux session with the mouse, you've probably been pretty pissed at the blissful ignorance a terminal application has of the rodent in your hand.

The alternative, which is quote-unqoute native copy/pasting using copy-mode takes a bit to get used to. So this is one solution for copying and pasting lines from a session with correct line wrapping behaviour, albeit keyboard only.

Disclaimer

Since copy-mode has similar concepts of marks, regions, and temp buffers to Emacs .. you'll probably find it straight forward if you're familar with Emacsen. For people using vi-mode in tmux, the same still applies but obviously the default key bindings will differ alot from what I show below.

jschoolcraft

Here's how to install PostgreSQL and have it run automatically at startup, on an Ubuntu 10.04 virtual machine using Vagrant. This took me a while to figure out:

Add the default lucid32 base box to your vagrant, if you haven't already:

host> vagrant box add lucid32 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box 

Now make a new lucid32 virtual machine and install postgresql on it:

dansimau

*~
*.pyc
.vagrant
venv

wolever

#!/bin/bash
# Source this from ~/.bashrc or similar.

if [[ ! "$0" =~ "bash" ]]; then
    echo "$0 should be sourced, not executed."
    exit 1
fi

_workon_list_virtualenvs() {
    local virtualenv

TomasTomecek

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.conf import settings
from re import compile

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse


def get_login_url():

garethrees

- name: Group by Distribution
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    - group_by: key=${ansible_distribution}

- name: Set Time Zone
  hosts: Ubuntu
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
    - name: Set timezone variables

dypsilon

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wolever

#!/bin/bash

IFS="`printf "\n\t"`"
set -eux
cd "$(dirname "$0")"