danielwerg

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

Minecraft systemd Services

This gist contains service descriptors which may be used to automatically start and re-start Minecraft servers using systemd. This allows proper control of your server startup on modern Linux distributions and will automatically manage all required tasks on startup for you.

Requirements

Hexadecimal color code for transparency

How to set transparency with hex value ?

For example, you want to set 40% alpha transparence to #000000 (black color), you need to add 66 like this #66000000.

All hex value from 100% to 0% alpha:

User 1

remote_server=172.31.0.1
git daemon --verbose --export-all --base-path=.git --reuseaddr --strict-paths .git/ > /tmp/git-serve.log 2>&1 &
ssh -R 9418:localhost:9418 ec2-user@$remote_server
git clone git://localhost/ local-repo-name

Repo from workstation is cloned onto server.

User 2

NB: This document describles a 'Old-School' way of using Yubikey with SSH

Modern OpenSSH has native support for FIDO Authentication. Its much simpler and should also be more stable with less moving parts. OpenSSH also now has support for signing arbitary files witch can be used as replacement of gnupg. Git also supports signing commits/tags with ssh keys.

Pros of FIDO

Simpler stack / less moving parts
Works directly with ssh, ssh-add and ssh-keygen on most computers
Simpler
Private key can never leave the FIDO device

Cons of FIDO

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	-accesscode -
	-batterytestmode - rapidly cycle battery percentages for testing
	-bigpicture - Start in Steam Big Picture mode
	-browser-offline -
	-cafeapplaunch - Launch apps in a cyber cafe context
	-candidates - Show libjingle candidates for local connection as they are processed
	-ccsyntax - Spew details about the localized strings we load
	-cef-allow-browser-underlay - Allow webhelper to create BrowserView underlays
	-cef-delaypageload - Enable early-out for known page loads
	-cef-disable-breakpad - disables breakpad in crash dumps

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	# ELIMINATE SPOTIFY ADS (VERSION 1.2 - 8.5) - ABANDONED FOR NOW #
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	# NOTE: SOMETIMES ONLY ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN AD WHILE USING APP VERSION 7.5-7.9?-8.x.
	# USING AN OFFICIAL OLDER VERSION SOLVES THIS. TEST IT (APKMIRROR). THIS WILL NOT
	# OCCUR USING CHROMECAST / GOOGLE HOME.
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	# COULD NOT SOLVE THE AUDIO AD INRO/OUTRO IN THE APP.
	# SUGGESTIONS? WRITE A COMMENT BELOW.