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chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

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

@jareware
jareware / SCSS.md
Last active August 11, 2025 13:22
Advanced SCSS, or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do

⇐ back to the gist-blog at jrw.fi

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

-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
@dotStart
dotStart / MinecraftService.md
Last active July 12, 2025 02:21
Systemd services for Minecraft Servers

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

@lopspower
lopspower / README.md
Last active August 30, 2025 12:10
Hexadecimal color code for transparency

Hexadecimal color code for transparency

Twitter

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.

Download This sample on Google Play Store

@ozwaldorf
ozwaldorf / entire_bee_movie_script
Last active July 17, 2025 17:45
The entire bee movie script
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Coming! Hang on a second. Hello? - Barry? - Adam? - Can you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I'm excited. Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me! - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry. - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I'd make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awkw
@RichardBronosky
RichardBronosky / 0-TLDR.md
Last active August 24, 2025 14:31 — forked from datagrok/git-serve.md
How to easily launch a temporary one-off git server from any local repository, to enable a peer-to-peer git workflow.

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

@opus-x
opus-x / Spotify_Eliminate_Advertisements
Last active July 23, 2025 00:25
Eliminate Spotify Advertisements + Complete Server List
##################################################################################
# ELIMINATE SPOTIFY ADS (VERSION 1.2 - 8.5) - ABANDONED FOR NOW #
##################################################################################
#
# 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.
#
# COULD NOT SOLVE THE AUDIO AD INRO/OUTRO IN THE APP.
# SUGGESTIONS? WRITE A COMMENT BELOW.
@LambdAurora
LambdAurora / optifine_alternatives_fabric.md
Last active August 5, 2025 13:20
Recommended OptiFine alternatives on Fabric

The list is moving out!

If you share this list, please use this link instead: https://lambdaurora.dev/optifine_alternatives

It may still be only a redirection link, but it will have a better web display of the list soon. And the list being on GitHub/GitHub pages improves load times.

The gist version of this list will stop being updated.

Why?

@sindresorhus
sindresorhus / esm-package.md
Last active August 30, 2025 02:23
Pure ESM package

Pure ESM package

The package that linked you here is now pure ESM. It cannot be require()'d from CommonJS.

This means you have the following choices:

  1. Use ESM yourself. (preferred)
    Use import foo from 'foo' instead of const foo = require('foo') to import the package. You also need to put "type": "module" in your package.json and more. Follow the below guide.
  2. If the package is used in an async context, you could use await import(…) from CommonJS instead of require(…).
  3. Stay on the existing version of the package until you can move to ESM.