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101arrowz / crc32.js
Last active October 30, 2024 00:50
Fast CRC32 in JavaScript
/**!
* Fast CRC32 in JavaScript
* 101arrowz (https://github.com/101arrowz)
* License: MIT
*/
// If you use this code, please link this gist or attribute it somehow.
// This code uses the Slice-by-16 algorithm to achieve performance
// roughly 2x greater than all other JS CRC32 implementations (e.g.
@chitchcock
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

@andrei-m
andrei-m / levenshtein.js
Last active October 9, 2024 10:36
Levenshtein distance between two given strings implemented in JavaScript and usable as a Node.js module
/*
Copyright (c) 2011 Andrei Mackenzie
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