Lee Hambley leehambley

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

Senior Backend Developer at Devengo

Devengo is a startup focused on a simple but ambitious mission: make finance a fairer place. Founded by well-known fintech players Fernando Cabello-Astolfi and Alberto Molpeceres our first product is an innovative social benefit that allows workers to collect their earned wages in real-time. Your money, when you need it.

The problem

Economists identify^¹ three main challenges any person and household must face to reach a sustainable level of financial wellness: having sufficient and stable income, maintaining an economic-financial balance that limits problems of overindebtedness and avoiding severe poverty.

The last two challenges are the most pressing ones as they have an immediate effect on the material living conditions of the population and they compound over time sinking the households' economies further and further.

In Spain al

Setup

Add this to your .profile, .bashrc, .zshrc...

_decode_base64_url() {
  local len=$((${#1} % 4))
  local result="$1"
  if [ $len -eq 2 ]; then result="$1"'=='
  elif [ $len -eq 3 ]; then result="$1"'=' 
  fi
 echo "$result" | tr '_-' '/+' | base64 -d

Chicken tikka masala

Time: 50 minutes

Serves: 4-6

	resource "random_string" "db_master_pass" {
	length = 40
	special = true
	min_special = 5
	override_special = "!#$%^&*()-_=+[]{}<>:?"
	keepers = {
	pass_version = 1
	}
	}

	package main

	import (
	"context"
	"crypto/tls"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"time"

	require 'fiddle'

	color_iter = DATA.readlines.map(&:chomp).map { \|i\|
	i = i.to_i(16)
	[(i >> 16) & 0xFF, (i >> 8) & 0xFF, i & 0xFF, 255]
	}.each

	SIZEOF_HEAP_PAGE_HEADER_STRUCT = Fiddle::SIZEOF_VOIDP

	SIZEOF_RVALUE = 40

	require 'fiddle'

	color_iter = DATA.readlines.map(&:chomp).map { \|i\|
	i = i.to_i(16)
	[(i >> 16) & 0xFF, (i >> 8) & 0xFF, i & 0xFF, 255]
	}.each

	SIZEOF_HEAP_PAGE_HEADER_STRUCT = Fiddle::SIZEOF_VOIDP

	SIZEOF_RVALUE = 40

	package main

	import (
	"context"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"os/signal"