Joel Glovier jglovier

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

My SCSS Style Guide

One of the beauties of authoring code is that apart from basic syntax rules, formatting is flexible. But we all know there are best practices for helping make certain code more readable, and more friendly for collaborator environments.

Here's a suggested style guide for authoring SASS files (SCSS flavor specifically) based on my own personal experience. You may like what I've come up with (then use it), or you may not like it (then fork it). Either way I hope it gets you to think more critically about how formatting your code can lead to efficiency for yourself, and for your team.

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Myth of a Christian Nation

Pre Thoughts

Christianity is a myth: there is only individual interpretations of what has been passed down, influenced by history and culture. It's not possible to say that one is the "right" version. (Also see The Myth of the Christian Religion.)
Myth that US was originally a religious nation vs a secular nation with freedom of thought populated by a high % of Christians.
Myth that Christianity now is the same as it was in the 1700s.
Myth that Christianity was ever intended to be a political force.

I made a little styling lib called glam

(some features are in development)

one

let's start off with the simplest use case. we'll make an 'index.html' page, and assume we've setup our js bundler to output bundle.js

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	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Requires the `t` gem: https://github.com/sferik/t
	#
	# gem install t
	#

	if [ -z $(t lists \| grep -i githubbers) ]
	then
	t list create GitHubbers

	#!/bin/bash

	echo "Title of post:"
	read title

	echo "Description of post:"
	read description

	echo "Tag post:"
	read tags

	background: linear-gradient(183deg, #f47b51, #ee497c, #671d81);
	background-size: 600% 600%;
	-webkit-animation: bg-gradient-change 11s ease infinite;
	-moz-animation: bg-gradient-change 11s ease infinite;
	-o-animation: bg-gradient-change 11s ease infinite;
	animation: bg-gradient-change 11s ease infinite;
	@-webkit-keyframes bg-gradient-change {
	0%{background-position:0% 51%}
	50%{background-position:100% 50%}
	100%{background-position:0% 51%}

	#!/usr/bin/ruby

	#
	# See https://github.com/soffes/hue for deets on the API. This script requires
	# the Gem be installed, which is documented at the same URL.
	#

	require 'hue'

	// http://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/masculine/usage/georgian
	$('.browsename').find('a:not([class]):not([href=""])').get().map(function(e) {
	return $(e).attr('href');
	}).map(function (url) {
	$.ajax({
	url:url,
	dataType:'html',
	success: function (data) {
	$element = $(data).find('a.trn');
	$elements = $element.get().filter(function(e) {