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

henrik

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

dominictarr

(dominic: this list of papers was originally recommended to me by Brain Noguchi @bnoguchi, and was a great start to understanding distributed systems)

Here's a selection of papers that I think you would find helpful and interesting:

Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

The seminal paper about event ordering and concurrency. The important result is that events in a distributed system define a partially ordered set. The connection to what we're working on is fundamental, as this defines how to detect concurrent updates. Moreover, the chosen algorithm to turn the partially ordered set into a totally ordered set defines the conflict resolution algorithm.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/time-clocks.pdf

dufferzafar

youtube-dl if you've not heard of it, is a great downloader for youtube (and a lot of other sites.)

The application has an awesome CLI, but a GUI could have things like:

• Pause/Resume
• Skip already downloaded files (-w)
• Add all links from a playlist individually, so you can control their downloads individually.
• Move downloads to folders based on categories/channels (I think this can already be done via output paths.)

Our GUI based app could be multi-threaded. (Async downloads?)

dufferzafar

import sys
from socket import socket, AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM

SERVER_IP = '127.0.0.1'
PORT_NUMBER = 5000
SIZE = 1024

print("Test client sending packets to IP {0}, via port {1}\n".format(SERVER_IP, PORT_NUMBER))

mySocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM)

mariozig

# Assume we are in your home directory
cd ~/

# Clone the repo from GitLab using the `--mirror` option
$ git clone --mirror [email protected]:mario/my-repo.git

# Change into newly created repo directory
$ cd ~/my-repo.git

# Push to GitHub using the `--mirror` option.  The `--no-verify` option skips any hooks. 

dufferzafar

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karpathy

"""
Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
BSD License
"""
import numpy as np

# data I/O
data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file
chars = list(set(data))
data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars)

dufferzafar

Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

dufferzafar

[6:48 pm] <Guest25582> http://oortr.com/YmU5NT
[6:48 pm] <valorie> rather than pasting a random link, why not say what it is, Guest25582?
[6:48 pm] <Guest25582> Allah is doing
[6:48 pm] <Guest25582> sun is not doing Allah is doing
[6:48 pm] <Guest25582> moon is not doing Allah is doing
[6:48 pm] <meflin> this channel is about GSOC
[6:48 pm] <Guest25582> stars are not doing Allah is doing
[6:48 pm] <valorie> please stay on topic or leave, Guest25582
[6:48 pm] <Guest25582> planets are not doing Allah is doing
[6:48 pm] <valorie> pfff