| import 'dart:math'; | |
| import 'package:flutter/material.dart'; | |
| import 'package:flutter/rendering.dart'; | |
| void main() { | |
| runApp(MyApp()); | |
| } | |
| class MyApp extends StatelessWidget { | |
| @override |
| | |
| https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Pointers | |
| *T - single-item pointer to exactly one item. | |
| Supports deref syntax: ptr.* | |
| [*]T - pointer to unknown number of items. (eq. of *T in C) | |
| Supports index syntax: ptr[i] | |
| Supports slice syntax: ptr[start..end] | |
| Supports pointer arithmetic: ptr + x, ptr - x |
| const interests = [ | |
| '3D printing', | |
| 'Amateur radio', | |
| 'Scrapbook', | |
| 'Amateur radio', | |
| 'Acting', | |
| 'Baton twirling', | |
| 'Board games', | |
| 'Book restoration', | |
| 'Cabaret', |
FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.
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