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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

Setup Mac OS X

I've done the same process every couple years since 2013 (Mountain Lion, Mavericks, High Sierra, Catalina) and I updated the Gist each time I've done it.

I kinda regret for not using something like Boxen (or anything similar) to automate the process, but TBH I only actually needed to these steps once every couple years...

How to setup mount / auto-mount USB Hard Drive on Raspberry Pi

Follow the simple steps in the order mentioned below to have your USB drive mounted on your Raspberry Pi every time you boot it.

These steps are required especially if your are setting up a Samba share, or a 24x7 torrent downloader, or alike where your Raspberry Pi must have your external storage already mounted and ready for access by the services / daemons.

Step 0. Plug in your USB HDD / Drive to Raspberry Pi If you are using a NTFS formatted drive, install the following

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.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

###Redux Egghead Video Notes###

####Introduction:#### Managing state in an application is critical, and is often done haphazardly. Redux provides a state container for JavaScript applications that will help your applications behave consistently.

Redux is an evolution of the ideas presented by Facebook's Flux, avoiding the complexity found in Flux by looking to how applications are built with the Elm language.

####1st principle of Redux:#### Everything that changes in your application including the data and ui options is contained in a single object called the state tree

FFmpeg cheat sheet

A list of useful commands for the FFmpeg command line tool.

Download FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Full documentation: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

Basic conversion

Introduction

This document outlines how to model a common organization-based permission system in Hasura. Let's assume that you have some table structure like the following:

Table Name	Columns	Foreign Keys
User	id, name, email
Organization User	id, user_id, organization_id	user_id -> user.id, organization_id -> organization.id
Organization	id, name

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	set -g base-index 1

	# Automatically set window title
	set-window-option -g automatic-rename on
	set-option -g set-titles on

	#set -g default-terminal screen-256color
	set -g status-keys vi
	set -g history-limit 10000

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8" />
	<title>RecordRTC over Socket.io</title>

	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

	<script src="https://www.WebRTC-Experiment.com/RecordRTC.js"></script>
	<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/socket.io/2.3.0/socket.io.js"></script>

	FROM consol/ubuntu-xfce-vnc
	USER root
	RUN apt-get update
	RUN apt-get install -qy curl iceweasel sudo desktop-file-utils lib32z1 \
	libx11-6 libegl1-mesa libxcb-shm0 \
	libglib2.0-0 libgl1-mesa-glx libxrender1 libxcomposite1 libxslt1.1 \
	libgstreamer1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libxi6 libsm6 \
	libfontconfig1 libpulse0 libsqlite3-0 \
	libxcb-shape0 libxcb-xfixes0 libxcb-randr0 libxcb-image0 \
	libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-xtest0 ibus ibus-gtk \