Stephan van Stekelenburg Stephanvs

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

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

System directories

Method	Result
Environment.getDataDirectory()	/data
Environment.getDownloadCacheDirectory()	/cache
Environment.getRootDirectory()	/system

External storage directories

Expose IIS or IISExpress running in a Parallels Windows 7/8 VM to your OS X host

Rename your virtual machine

In your Windows 7/8 VM, go to Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings > Computer Name and click Change. Name this whatever you like, e.g. windows. Restart your VM.

Add an ACL rule

Open CMD or Powershell as administrator. Add a URL ACL entry for your new name on the port of your choice, e.g.
netsh http add urlacl url=http://windows:8080/ user=everyone

	This is an example how to perform multi-select faceting in ElasticSearch.

	Selecting multiple values from the same facet will result in an OR filter between each of the values:
	(facet1.value1 OR facet1.value2)

	Faceting on more than one facet will result in an AND filter between each facet:
	(facet1.value1 OR facet1.value2) AND (facet2.value1)

	I have chosen to update the counts for each facet the selected value DOES NOT belong to since we are performing an AND between each facet. I have included an example that shows how to keep the counts if you don't want to do this (filter0.sh).

	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

	using Ninject.Modules;
	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Reflection;
	using System.Web;
	using System.Web.Http;
	using System.Web.Http.Dependencies;

	// A small Library to configure Ninject (A Dependency Injection Library) with a WebAPI Application.

	// 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,

	using System;
	using MonoTouch.UIKit;
	using System.Windows.Input;

	namespace com.refractored.mvxbindings
	{
	/// <summary>
	/// Mvx user interface refresh control.
	/// </summary>
	public class MvxUIRefreshControl : UIRefreshControl

	var staticDomain = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["StaticDomain"];
	settings.UrlModifier = new StaticDomainUrlModifier(settings.UrlModifier, staticDomain);