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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

How to delete a file from a Git repository, but not other users' working copies

Suppose you have, by mistake, added your IDE's project folder (you know, these .idea folders with all kinds of local paths and configuration data and settings in it) to the Git repository of your project. (We're talking about a whole folder here, but the same rules apply to individual files as well.)

Of course, you only realize that two days after the fact and have already pushed it, and your colleagues have already pulled it. They use the same IDE as you do, so whenever they change a setting or fix paths, they can either

commit that, causing nasty merge conflicts for you and others or
ignore the changes and carry around a modified file until the end of time without ever committing it.

Why .gitignore won't help

This is one chapter of my "Chrome Extension Workshops" tutorial, see the rest here: https://gist.github.com/caseywatts/8eec8ff974dee9f3b247

Unrelated update: my book is out! Debugging Your Brain is an applied psychology / self-help book

Making Bookmarklets

I'm feeling very clever. I've got this sweet line of javascript that replaces "cloud" with "butt". My mom would LOVE this, but she doesn't computer very well. I'm afraid to show her the Developer Console and have her type/paste this in. But she IS pretty good at bookmarks, she knows just how to click those!

A bookmark normally takes you to a new web page. A bookmarklet is a bookmark that runs javascript on the current page instead of taking you to a new page. To declare that it is a bookmarklet, the "location" it points to starts with javascript:.

iTerm2 Ollama Integration

A guide on using Ollama as the OpenAI API provider for inline completions in iTerm2.

Configuration

API URL: http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1/completions
Model: mistral
Tokens: 4000
Use legacy completions API: true

	-- Reasonably efficient pagination without OFFSET
	-- SQLite version (Adapted from MS SQL syntax)
	-- Source: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showpost.php?p=10376515&postcount=6

	SELECT foo, bar, baz, quux FROM table
	WHERE oid NOT IN ( SELECT oid FROM table
	ORDER BY title ASC LIMIT 50 )
	ORDER BY title ASC LIMIT 10

	#!comment: This is a list of the top 100,000 most frequently-used English words
	#!comment: according to Wiktionary.
	#!comment:
	#!comment: It was compiled in August 2005 and coalesced into a handy list for
	#!comment: use in John the Ripper.
	#!comment:
	#!comment:
	#!comment: Pull date: Sun Jan 15 22:03:54 2012 GMT
	#!comment:
	#!comment: Sources:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <cuda.h>
	#include <cuda_runtime_api.h>

	/* Outputs some information on CUDA-enabled devices on your computer,
	* including compute capability and current memory usage.
	*
	* On Linux, compile with: nvcc -o cuda_check cuda_check.c -lcuda
	* On Windows, compile with: nvcc -o cuda_check.exe cuda_check.c -lcuda
	*


	from keras import backend as K, initializers, regularizers, constraints
	from keras.engine.topology import Layer


	def dot_product(x, kernel):
	"""
	Wrapper for dot product operation, in order to be compatible with both
	Theano and Tensorflow
	Args:

	import datetime
	import time
	from _thread import RLock
	from functools import update_wrapper, _make_key, _CacheInfo

	# Check the example at the end of this script.


	class Node:
	"""node of the circular doubly linked list"""