B Manoj Kumar bmkmanoj

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

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Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

ServiceNow UI Developer cheat sheet

Utility URLs

URL	Purpose
/stats.do	Quick stats
/cache.do	Clear your instance cache

	/*
	You need node 6.9 or later.
	Run with:
	node redux-mini.js --harmony

	Want a more in depth explanation of how things works? Read the blog post I have written about it here:
	http://blog.jakoblind.no/2017/03/13/learn-redux-by-coding-a-mini-redux/
	*/

	/*

	// I recently saw http://davidwalsh.name/detect-native-function tweeted by
	// @elijahmanor and was pretty jazzed about it. One of my favorite JS tricks is
	// detecting native methods. Detecting native methods is handy because third
	// party code can shim methods incorrectly as seen in past versions of
	// Prototype.js, es5-shim, & modernizr, which can cause your code to behave in
	// unexpected ways. This isn't a knock against those projects, shimming is really
	// really hard to get right. Shimmed methods may also lack the performance
	// benefits of their native counterparts. Lo-Dash, Dojo, Ember, & YUI,
	// to name a few, detect native methods to avoid shims and rely on their own
	// fallback paths, trusting their code over third-party.

	/**
	* Copyright 2017 Google Inc.
	*
	* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	* You may obtain a copy of the License at
	*
	* https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	*
	* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

	# defaults commands with com.apple.iphonesimulator
	# usage in detail will show with `defaults` without any arguments

	# this sets default simulator device to iPhone
	defaults write com.apple.iphonesimulator SimulateDevice -string "iPhone"
	defaults write com.apple.iphonesimulator SimulateSDKRoot -string "${SDKROOT_iphonesimulator}"

	# this sets default simulator device to iPad
	defaults write com.apple.iphonesimulator SimulateDevice -string "iPad"
	defaults write com.apple.iphonesimulator SimulateSDKRoot -string "${SDKROOT_iphonesimulator_ipad}"

	/*!
	* jQuery JavaScript Library v2.1.1pre
	* http://jquery.com/
	*
	* Includes Sizzle.js
	* http://sizzlejs.com/
	*
	* Copyright 2005, 2014 jQuery Foundation, Inc. and other contributors
	* Released under the MIT license
	* http://jquery.org/license

	git reset --hard
	git clean -f -d


	Description:
	============
	Git Tips: Remove untracked files and directories from the working
	tree when switching branches or checking out different commits.

	Explanation:

	/**
	* Mark and Sweep Garbage Collection technique.
	* MIT Style License
	* by Dmitry Soshnikov
	*/

	// This diff describes the simplest version of mark and sweep
	// GC in order to understand the basic idea. In real practice the
	// implementation can be much tricker and optimized.