James Liu disposedtrolley

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

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

	// this will find all files ending with _test.js and run them with Mocha. Put this in your package.json


	"scripts": {
	"test": "find ./tests -name '*_test.js' \| xargs mocha -R spec"
	},

	# Copyright @ Bjarte Johansen 2012
	# License: http://ljos.mit-license.org/

	from AppKit import NSApplication, NSApp, NSWorkspace
	from Foundation import NSObject, NSLog
	from PyObjCTools import AppHelper
	from Quartz import kCGWindowListOptionOnScreenOnly, kCGNullWindowID, CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo

	class AppDelegate(NSObject):
	def applicationDidFinishLaunching_(self, notification):

	/**
	* Process an array of data synchronously.
	*
	* @param data An array of data.
	* @param processData A function that processes an item of data.
	* Signature: function(item, i, callback), where {@code item} is the i'th item,
	* {@code i} is the loop index value and {@code calback} is the
	* parameterless function to call on completion of processing an item.
	*/
	function doSynchronousLoop(data, processData, done) {

	#!/bin/bash

	# This script builds the iOS and Mac openSSL libraries
	# Download openssl http://www.openssl.org/source/ and place the tarball next to this script

	# Credits:
	# https://github.com/st3fan/ios-openssl
	# https://github.com/x2on/OpenSSL-for-iPhone/blob/master/build-libssl.sh

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Setup a work space called `work` with two windows
	# first window has 3 panes.
	# The first pane set at 65%, split horizontally, set to api root and running vim
	# pane 2 is split at 25% and running redis-server
	# pane 3 is set to api root and bash prompt.
	# note: `api` aliased to `cd ~/path/to/work`
	#
	session="work"

	var data = "do shash'owania";
	var crypto = require('crypto');
	crypto.createHash('md5').update(data).digest("hex");

	ACTION
	AD_HOC_CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED
	ALTERNATE_GROUP
	ALTERNATE_MODE
	ALTERNATE_OWNER
	ALWAYS_SEARCH_USER_PATHS
	ALWAYS_USE_SEPARATE_HEADERMAPS
	APPLE_INTERNAL_DEVELOPER_DIR
	APPLE_INTERNAL_DIR
	APPLE_INTERNAL_DOCUMENTATION_DIR

	--------------------------------------------------
	--------------------------------------------------
	-- Import tasks from Things to OmniFocus
	--------------------------------------------------
	--------------------------------------------------
	--
	-- Script taken from: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=14846&page=2
	-- Added: creation date, due date, start date functionality
	-- Empty your Things Trash first.
	-- Note that this won't move over scheduled recurring tasks.