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From: Mark S. Miller <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:44 PM
Subject: "Future of Javascript" doc from our internal "JavaScript Summit"
last week
To: [email protected]

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

In response to this silly complaint. Have these people never before seen a compiler and linker?

Google Speech To Text API

Base URL: https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize
It accepts POST requests with voice file encoded in FLAC format, and query parameters for control.

Query Parameters

client
The client's name you're connecting from. For spoofing purposes, let's use chromium

lang
Speech language, for example, ar-QA for Qatari Arabic, or en-US for U.S. English

	Javascript Obfuscation, Minification and why it doesn't really matter.

	I'm working on placing some geocaches[http://www.geocaching.com] and they must be 0.1 miles away from other geocaches. Being a programmer I thought, well, let's just write a bookmarklet to augment the geocaching website with a radius around the caches displayed on the map. So I googled for chunk of code that would do this because I'm lazy. The first tool was http://www.freemaptools.com/radius-around-point.htm and its UI was clunky but the output looked good enough to me. So I dig into the source... and gasp what is this?

	10111010001000010111010000111101010101101101110100010101010100100001...
	http://www.freemaptools.com/script/radius-around-point.js

	At that point, I could've just looked for the next site but I have a few tricks up my sleeve since I've had to dig into ridiculous javascript for serveral of my jobs... The first trick is just use chrome developer tools, it'll probably get you 90% of the way there... and look, it does!

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<meta charset=utf-8 />
	<title>Chrome File API tester</title>

	<script>
	window.requestFileSystem = window.requestFileSystem \|\| window.webkitRequestFileSystem;

	function preventBack(){
	try{
	history.forward();
	setTimeout('preventBack()', 500);
	}catch(e){}
	}

	preventBack();

	easterEgg.BadWorder.list={
	"4r5e":1,
	"5h1t":1,
	"5hit":1,
	a55:1,
	anal:1,
	anus:1,
	ar5e:1,
	arrse:1,
	arse:1,

	// Copyright (c) 2011, the HaXe project authors.
	// All rights reserved.
	// Simple test program to compare haXe style js output with dart version:
	// https://gist.github.com/1277224
	// compile: haxe -main HelloHaxeTest -js test.js

	class HelloHaxeTest {
	static function main() {
	trace("Hello, HaXer!");
	}