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chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

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

@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active October 21, 2025 14:30
Big list of http static server one-liners

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
@ryanj
ryanj / gist-reveal.it-slides.html
Last active July 15, 2025 09:04
Gist-powered Revealjs slideshow presentations http://gist-reveal.it
<section id='hello' data-background-transition='zoom' data-transition='concave' data-background='https://ryanjarvinen.com/presentations/shared/img/broadcast_reveal_dark.png' data-state='blackout'>
<h1><a style='color:deepskyblue;' href='https://gist-reveal.it'>gist-reveal.it</a></h1>
<br/>
<h2 style='color:white;'>Gist-Powered</h2>
<h1 style='white-space:nowrap;color:white;'>reveal.js slides</h1>
<p><small style="background-color: rgb(0,0,0,0.35); font-style: italic; color: white;"> press F1 for usage notes </small></p>
</section>
<section id='revealjs' data-transition='concave'>
<h3><a href="https://revealjs.com/">Reveal.js</a> is a framework</h3><p><span>for crafting presentations</span><br/> <span class='fragment'>in <a href="https://revealjs.com/markup/">HTML</a></span> <br/> <span class='fragment fade-up'>and <a href="https://revealjs.com/markdown/">Markdown</a></span>
<aside class="notes">Oh hey, these are some notes. They'll be hidden in your presentation, but you can see them if you open
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active October 22, 2025 12:20
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@bendc
bendc / functional-utils.js
Last active July 15, 2025 04:33
A set of pure ES2015 functions aimed to make functional JavaScript more idiomatic.
// array utils
// =================================================================================================
const combine = (...arrays) => [].concat(...arrays);
const compact = arr => arr.filter(Boolean);
const contains = (() => Array.prototype.includes
? (arr, value) => arr.includes(value)
: (arr, value) => arr.some(el => el === value)
@chrissimpkins
chrissimpkins / gist:5bf5686bae86b8129bee
Last active April 6, 2025 09:16
Atom Editor Cheat Sheet: macOS

Use these rapid keyboard shortcuts to control the GitHub Atom text editor on macOS.

Key to the Keys

  • ⌘ : Command key
  • ⌃ : Control key
  • ⌫ : Delete key
  • ← : Left arrow key
  • → : Right arrow key
  • ↑ : Up arrow key
@javierarques
javierarques / protractorAPICheatsheet.md
Last active March 3, 2025 17:08
Protractor API Cheatsheet
@yrevar
yrevar / imagenet1000_clsidx_to_labels.txt
Last active October 14, 2025 01:02
text: imagenet 1000 class idx to human readable labels (Fox, E., & Guestrin, C. (n.d.). Coursera Machine Learning Specialization.)
{0: 'tench, Tinca tinca',
1: 'goldfish, Carassius auratus',
2: 'great white shark, white shark, man-eater, man-eating shark, Carcharodon carcharias',
3: 'tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri',
4: 'hammerhead, hammerhead shark',
5: 'electric ray, crampfish, numbfish, torpedo',
6: 'stingray',
7: 'cock',
8: 'hen',
9: 'ostrich, Struthio camelus',
#!/bin/bash
function benchmark_rev() {
REV=$1
git clean -f &> /dev/null
git checkout $REV &> /dev/null
git clean -f &> /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Checkout of $REV failed!"
exit 1
apiVersion: app.coreos.com/v1alpha1
kind: ClusterServiceVersion-v1
metadata:
name: couchbase-operator.v0.8.0
namespace: operator-demo
spec:
install:
strategy: deployment
spec:
permissions: