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

vivekhaldar

#! /usr/bin/python
#
# Church numerals in Python.
# See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding
#
# Vivek Haldar <vh@vivekhaldar.com>
#
# https://gist.github.com/2438498

zero = lambda f: lambda x: x

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

robmiller

#
# Working with branches
#

# Get the current branch name (not so useful in itself, but used in
# other aliases)
branch-name = "!git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
# Push the current branch to the remote "origin", and set it to track
# the upstream branch
publish = "!git push -u origin $(git branch-name)"

TravisCannon

Add New Relic To Elastic Beanstalk for .NET

The instructions and files in this Gist can be used to configure an EC2 instance to install both the New Relic .NET Agent and Server Monitor on an EC2 deployed inside of an Elastic Beanstalk, without creating a custom AMI. Once configured, EC2s will begin reporting application and server metrics automatically to New Relic, even as the Elastic Beanstalk scales up and adds more EC2s.

Steps

1. Create a top-level directory in your source bundle called .ebextensions and add newrelic.config to it.
2. Change the values in newrelic.config to match your configuration, where:

• download_path_to = URL to download the PowerShell script and New Relic Agents (e.g. an S3 bucket)

aras-p

// Just before switching jobs:
// Add one of these.
// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
//
// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
//
// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

Stuk

var spawn = require("child_process").spawn;
var Q = require("q");

/**
 * Wrap executing a command in a promise
 * @param  {string} command command to execute
 * @param  {Array<string>} args    Arguments to the command.
 * @param  {string} cwd     The working directory to run the command in.
 * @return {Promise}        A promise for the completion of the command.
 */

noeticpenguin

Public with sharing virtual class RestClient {
    Public class RestClientException extends Exception {}

    /*
     * class variable creation - DO NOT EDIT
     */

    Public Map<String,String> headers;
    Public String url;
    Public String method;

lfender6445

Pry Cheat Sheet

• Youtube Tutorial 2013

Command Line

• pry -r ./config/app_init_file.rb - load your app into a pry session (look at the file loaded by config.ru)
• pry -r ./config/environment.rb - load your rails into a pry session

Debugger

lihaoyi

object ScalaJSExample extends js.JSApp{
  def main() = {
    val xs = Seq(1, 2, 3)
    println(xs.toString)
    val ys = Seq(4, 5, 6)
    println(ys.toString)
    val zs = for{
      x <- xs
      y <- ys
    } yield x * y