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

bellbind

// clang -framework Cocoa app.m -o app
// ./app
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>

int main()
{
  [NSAutoreleasePool new];
  id app = [NSApplication sharedApplication];
  [app setActivationPolicy:NSApplicationActivationPolicyRegular];
  

ndarville

"""
Two things are wrong with Django's default `SECRET_KEY` system:

1. It is not random but pseudo-random
2. It saves and displays the SECRET_KEY in `settings.py`

This snippet
1. uses `SystemRandom()` instead to generate a random key
2. saves a local `secret.txt`

kashyapp

#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>        /* For mode constants */
#include <fcntl.h>           /* For O_* constants */

krets

import sys
import getpass
sentry_url = 'http://<hash>:<hash>@sentry-server.local/1'
try:
    import raven
    RAVEN_CLIENT = raven.Client(sentry_url)
    RAVEN_CLIENT.tags_context({'user':getpass.getuser()})
except:
    RAVEN_CLIENT = None
    

macu

import Foundation

/// Timeout wrapps a callback deferral that may be cancelled.
///
/// Usage:
/// Timeout(1.0) { println("1 second has passed.") }
///
class Timeout: NSObject
{
	private var timer: NSTimer?

samhocevar

#!/bin/sh
#
#  msys2-sshd-setup.sh — configure sshd on MSYS2 and run it as a Windows service
#
#  Please report issues and/or improvements to Sam Hocevar <[email protected]>
#
#  Prerequisites:
#    — MSYS2 itself: http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/
#    — admin tools: pacman -S openssh cygrunsrv mingw-w64-x86_64-editrights
#

jmacko

##
# This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download
# Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
##

require 'msf/core'
require 'msf/core/exploit/powershell'

class Metasploit3 < Msf::Exploit::Remote
  Rank = ExcellentRanking

croepha

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/auxv.h> // For getauxval and AT_SYSINFO_EHDR
#include <string.h>
#include <elf.h>

typedef unsigned char u8;

void* vdso_sym(char* name) {
    // in order to semantically inline getauxval one would have to bypass glibc, as the auxval is passed
    //  by the kernel to the bin's entrypoint used by the kernel

ratchetfreak

• void glEnableVertexAttribArray​(GLuint attribIndex);
• void glDisableVertexAttribArray​(GLuint attribIndex);
• void glVertexAttribPointer(GLuint attribIndex, GLint size, GLenum type, GLboolean normalized, GLsizei stride, const GLvoid * pointer);
• void glVertexAttribFormat(GLuint attribIndex, GLint size, GLenum type, GLboolean normalized, GLuint relativeoffset);
• void glVertexAttribBinding(GLuint attribIndex, GLuint bindingIndex);
• void glBindVertexBuffer(GLuint bindingIndex, GLuint buffer, GLintptr offset, GLintptr stride);

parameter	Details
attribIndex	the location for the vertex attribute to which the vertex array will feed data