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@darkfall
darkfall / gist:1656050
Created January 22, 2012 07:15
A simple class that converts a image to a icon in c# without losing image color data, unlike System.Drawing.Icon; ico with png data requires Windows Vista or above
class PngIconConverter
{
/* input image with width = height is suggested to get the best result */
/* png support in icon was introduced in Windows Vista */
public static bool Convert(System.IO.Stream input_stream, System.IO.Stream output_stream, int size, bool keep_aspect_ratio = false)
{
System.Drawing.Bitmap input_bit = (System.Drawing.Bitmap)System.Drawing.Bitmap.FromStream(input_stream);
if (input_bit != null)
{
int width, height;
@chitchcock
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

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Reflection.Emit;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.Data;
using System.Reflection;
@vbfox
vbfox / Program.cs
Created August 26, 2010 15:33
Sample code for SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems in C#
namespace SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems
{
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes;