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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

@tylerl
tylerl / rsa.py
Created September 24, 2011 08:27
RSA Explained in Python
#!/usr/bin/env python
# This example demonstrates RSA public-key cryptography in an
# easy-to-follow manner. It works on integers alone, and uses much smaller numbers
# for the sake of clarity.
#####################################################################
# First we pick our primes. These will determine our keys.
#####################################################################
@eligrey
eligrey / html-domparser.js
Last active March 9, 2025 03:34
DOMParser HTML extension - Now a polyfill since HTML parsing was added to the DOMParser specification
/*
* DOMParser HTML extension
* 2019-11-13
*
* By Eli Grey, http://eligrey.com
* Public domain.
* NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
*/
/*! @source https://gist.github.com/1129031 */
@ircmaxell
ircmaxell / php_errors.txt
Created July 27, 2011 15:50
All errors in the 5.3 source code tree (zend_error|php_error_docref)
./ext/bcmath/bcmath.c: php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "Division by zero");
./ext/bcmath/bcmath.c: php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "Division by zero");
./ext/bcmath/bcmath.c: php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "Square root of negative number");
./ext/bz2/bz2.c: php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "length may not be negative");
./ext/bz2/bz2.c: php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "could not read valid bz2 data from stream");
./ext/bz2/bz2.c: php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "'%s' is not a valid mode for bzopen(). Only 'w' and 'r' are supported.", mode);
./ext/bz2/bz2.c: php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "filename cannot be empty");
./ext/bz2/bz2.c: php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "cannot use stream opened in mode '%s'", stream->mode);
./ext/bz2/bz2.c: php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "cannot use stream opened in mode '%s'", stream->mode);
@pazdera
pazdera / gist:1086117
Created July 16, 2011 07:56
Example of using getopt(1) utility in bash
#!/bin/bash
# Example of using getopt(1) utility to parse script arguments
# Copyright (C) 2011 Radek Pazdera
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
@defunkt
defunkt / installing-mustache.vim.md
Created March 6, 2010 10:21
Installing mustache.vim

mustache.vim

In your shell:

cd ~/.vim
git clone git://github.com/juvenn/mustache.vim.git
mv mustache.vim/syntax/* syntax/
mv mustache.vim/indent/* indent/
mv mustache.vim/ftdetect/* ftdetect/

rm -rf mustache.vim