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kislayverma / steve-yegge-google-platform-rant.md
Created December 26, 2019 07:11
A copy (for posterity) of Steve Yegge's internal memo in Google about what platforms are and how Amazon learnt to build them

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 really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything,

@bretton
bretton / inbound-liquidity-ln.md
Last active March 11, 2025 09:14
How to get Inbound Liquidity on the Lightning Network

How to get Inbound Liquidity on the Lightning Network

There are several ways you can find inbound liquidity on LN.

1. Wait

If your node is up 24x7 and you have some outgoing channels, the network will connect to you if you simply wait.

However, it might take a couple of weeks to get a significant amount of incoming liquidity, and ideally you want your outgoing liquidity to match too.

@tyzbit
tyzbit / Docker Style Guide.md
Created May 10, 2018 18:23
Docker Style Guide

Docker Style Guide

This is meant as a non-exhaustive set of tips to writing clean, usable Dockerfiles.

Before you start

It's assumed you're at least a little familiar with Docker's best practices document, especially using multi-stage builds. This is meant not to replace, but augment. I will reiterate some of these points to point out particularly useful or powerful conventions.

Minimize your layers as much as possible

@campaul
campaul / tarnish.rs
Created December 11, 2015 01:52
Simple HTTP proxy in Rust.
/*
Simple HTTP proxy in Rust. Hard coded to proxy rust-lang.org.
*/
extern crate hyper;
use std::io::Read;
use hyper::Client;
use hyper::header::Connection;
@amitchhajer
amitchhajer / Count Code lines
Created January 5, 2013 11:08
Count number of code lines in git repository per user
git ls-files -z | xargs -0n1 git blame -w | perl -n -e '/^.*\((.*?)\s*[\d]{4}/; print $1,"\n"' | sort -f | uniq -c | sort -n
@ghoseb
ghoseb / factorial.py
Created November 14, 2008 18:58
The evolution of a Python Programmer
#Newbie programmer
def factorial(x):
if x == 0:
return 1
else:
return x * factorial(x - 1)
print factorial(6)
#First year programmer, studied Pascal