Otis Sutton chopfitzroy

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 cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

Steps to setup mailtrap.io with your sendmail in ubuntu

Install sendmail and mailutils in ubuntu 'apt-get install sendmail mailutils'

In the terminal go into root prompt with sudo -s

Go to the /etc/mail folder

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	# _
	# \| \|_ _ __ ___ _ ___ __
	# \| __\| '_ ` _ \\| \| \| \ \/ /
	# \| \|_\| \| \| \| \| \| \|_\| \|> <
	# \__\|_\| \|_\| \|_\|\__,_/_/\_\
	#
	# Cheatsheets:
	# https://devhints.io/tmux
	# `property not found` issue:

	//
	// This server will start a bash shell and expose it
	// over socket.io to a browser. See ./term.html for the
	// client side.
	//
	// You should probably:
	//
	// npm install socket.io
	// curl -O https://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO/raw/master/socket.io.min.js
	//

	$("form :input").each(function(index, elem) {
	var eId = $(elem).attr("id");
	var label = null;
	if (eId && (label = $(elem).parents("form").find("label[for="+eId+"]")).length == 1) {
	$(elem).attr("placeholder", $(label).html());
	$(label).remove();
	}
	});

	# 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

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Box Shadow</title>

	<style>
	.box {
	height: 150px;
	width: 300px;
	margin: 20px;

	# webm
	ffmpeg -i IN -f webm -vcodec libvpx -acodec libvorbis -ab 128000 -crf 22 -s 640x360 OUT.webm

	# mp4
	ffmpeg -i IN -acodec aac -strict experimental -ac 2 -ab 128k -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -f mp4 -crf 22 -s 640x360 OUT.mp4

	# ogg (if you want to support older Firefox)
	ffmpeg2theora IN -o OUT.ogv -x 640 -y 360 --videoquality 5 --audioquality 0 --frontend