Aleh Atsman alehatsman

Commit Message Conventions

These rules are adopted from the AngularJS commit conventions.

Goals
Generating CHANGELOG.md
- Recognizing unimportant commits
- Provide more information when browsing the history
Format of the commit message
Subject line

fireplace

cpr => (require ... :reload)
cpR => (require ... :reload-all)

Evaluation

:Eval (clojure code) => runs (clojure code) in repl
cpp => evaluate inn-most expessions under cursor
cp<movement> => evaluate text described by <movement>
cqp => opens quasi-repl
cqc => quasi-repl command line window

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

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

	# 0 is too far from ` ;)
	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