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kislayverma / steve-yegge-google-platform-rant.md
Created December 26, 2019 07:11
A copy (for posterity) of Steve Yegge's internal memo in Google about what platforms are and how Amazon learnt to build them

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 really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything,

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arvindpdmn / JS.Done.Right.2.md
Last active October 13, 2024 10:04
JavaScript Done Right! (DOM, Events, Best Practices)

JavaScript Done Right!
Devopedia, Oct 2018

0. Introduction

In this meetup, we'll talk about DOM access and manipulation. This can be done in plain JavaScript using the new APIs introduced in ES6. It can also be done using jQuery. We will look at both approaches. We leave it to developers to choose what suits them.

As a study reference, look at the following cheat sheets:

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Last active February 16, 2023 20:05
JavaScript Done Right! (Basics, Functions, Inheritance, Async)

JavaScript Done Right!
Devopedia, Sept 2018

0. Introduction

JavaScript is one of the top programming languages today. It can also be confusing for developers coming from C, Java or PHP backgrounds. Worse still are the numerous frameworks (such as Angular and React) that make it difficult to decide what to learn and how to use the language.

In this short talk/demo, we'll look at the best practices in JavaScript programming. We'll explain using simple examples. This is for beginners and intermediate JS programmers. You must be familiar with JS syntax. We'll not cover DOM access, jQuery, Node.js or JS frameworks.

The recommendations here assume that you use a transpiler such as Babel so that code can work on older browsers. Therefore we freely use syntax from recent ECMAScript standards.

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tbhaxor / serve.py
Last active July 14, 2019 03:40
Serving VUE Js Build directory using python and flask
"""
before execution
1. build vue app - npm run build
2. install dependencies - pip install flask flask-cors
running the server
python serve.py
your site will be live on http://localhost:8000
var mediaJSON = { "categories" : [ { "name" : "Movies",
"videos" : [
{ "description" : "Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps... and the rabbit ain't no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge.\n\nLicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license\nhttp://www.bigbuckbunny.org",
"sources" : [ "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4" ],
"subtitle" : "By Blender Foundation",
"thumb" : "images/BigBuckBunny.jpg",
"title" : "Big Buck Bunny"
},
{ "description" : "The first Blender Open Movie from 2006",
"sources" : [ "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ElephantsDream.mp4" ],