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

skakri

<?php
/**
 * @author Kristaps Karlsons <[email protected]>
 * Licensed under MPL 1.1
 */

function mc_status($host,$port='25565') {
    $timeInit = microtime();
    // TODO: implement a way to store data (memcached or MySQL?) - please don't overload target server
    $fp = fsockopen($host,$port,$errno,$errstr,$timeout=10);

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

nikcub

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

danieltharp

# ********************************************************************************
#
# Script Name: DangItBobby.ps1
# Version: 1.0.0
# Author: bluesoul <https://bluesoul.me>
# Date: 2016-04-06
# Applies to: Domain Environments
#
# Description: This script searches for a specific, logged on user on all or 
# specific Computers by checking the process "explorer.exe" and its owner. It 

james2doyle

<?php

if (!function_exists('dd')) {
    function dd($data)
    {
        ini_set("highlight.comment", "#969896; font-style: italic");
        ini_set("highlight.default", "#FFFFFF");
        ini_set("highlight.html", "#D16568");
        ini_set("highlight.keyword", "#7FA3BC; font-weight: bold");
        ini_set("highlight.string", "#F2C47E");

LatvianModder

Moved to wiki!

guides.latmod.com

ohhdemgirls

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

(A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.)

Why not?

afeish

location /__special {
  internal;
  allow all;
  root   /usr/share/nginx/html/__special;
}

location = /__md_file {
  internal;
  allow all;