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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

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Edit — February 2019

This gist had a far larger impact than I imagined it would, and apparently people are still finding it, so a quick update:

TC39 is currently moving forward with a slightly different version of TLA, referred to as 'variant B', in which a module with TLA doesn't block sibling execution. This vastly reduces the danger of parallelizable work happening in serial and thereby delaying startup, which was the concern that motivated me to write this gist
In the wild, we're seeing (async main(){...}()) as a substitute for TLA. This completely eliminates the blocking problem (yay!) but it's less powerful, and harder to statically analyse (boo). In other words the lack of TLA is causing real problems
Therefore, a version of TLA that solves the original issue is a valuable addition to the language, and I'm in full support of the current proposal, which you can read here.

I'll leave the rest of this document unedited, for archaeological

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

	/*
	Handlebars Template Engine for Knockout JavaScript library
	//!
	Copyright (c) 2011 Mark J. Titorenko
	License: MIT (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
	*/
	ko.handlebarsTemplateEngine = function () {
	// adapted from MooTools.Element
	//
	// This is necessary to allow us to easily deal with table

	#
	# CORS header support
	#
	# One way to use this is by placing it into a file called "cors_support"
	# under your Nginx configuration directory and placing the following
	# statement inside your location block(s):
	#
	# include cors_support;
	#
	# As of Nginx 1.7.5, add_header supports an "always" parameter which

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
	<!-- *******************************************************************
	This is Joel "Jaykul" Bennett's coloring format file for PowerShell 5.1
	******************************************************************** -->
	<Configuration>
	<SelectionSets>
	<SelectionSet>
	<Name>FileSystemTypes</Name>
	<Types>
	<TypeName>System.IO.DirectoryInfo</TypeName>

	import {ValidationError} from 'aurelia-validation';

	export class AjvValidator {
	cache = new Map;
	ajv = new Ajv({ v5: true, allErrors: true, format: 'full' });

	validateObject(object) {
	this.parseSchema(object);
	let schemaId = this._schemaId(object);
	if (!this.cache.has(schemaId)) {

	# LVDB - LLOOGG Memory DB
	# Copyriht (C) 2009 Salvatore Sanfilippo <[email protected]>
	# All Rights Reserved

	# TODO
	# - cron with cleanup of timedout clients, automatic dump
	# - the dump should use array startsearch to write it line by line
	# and may just use gets to read element by element and load the whole state.
	# - 'help','stopserver','saveandstopserver','save','load','reset','keys' commands.
	# - ttl with milliseconds resolution 'ttl a 1000'. Check ttl in dump!

	# Licensed under the MIT license.
	# Copyright (C) 2017 Kristofer Liljeblad

	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
	# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
	# publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
	# subject to the following conditions:

	# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.