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[alias]
  wip = for-each-ref --sort='authordate:iso8601' --format=' %(color:green)%(authordate:relative)%09%(color:white)%(refname:short)' refs/heads
  

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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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Let's Destroy C

I have a pet project I work on, every now and then. CNoEvil.

The concept is simple enough.

What if, for a moment, we forgot all the rules we know. That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones. That nothing is off limits. Can we turn C into a new language? Can we do what Lisp and Forth let the over-eager programmer do, but in C?

---

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# vim: tabstop=4 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 textwidth=79 autoindent

"""
Python source code
Last modified: 15 Feb 2014 - 13:38
Last author: lmwangi at gmail  com

Displays the available memory fragments
by querying /proc/buddyinfo

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// Create a new MergeStrategy for aop.xml files
val aopMerge: MergeStrategy = new MergeStrategy {
  val name = "aopMerge"
  import scala.xml._
  import scala.xml.dtd._

  def apply(tempDir: File, path: String, files: Seq[File]): Either[String, Seq[(File, String)]] = {
    val dt = DocType("aspectj", PublicID("-//AspectJ//DTD//EN", "http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/dtd/aspectj.dtd"), Nil)
    val file = MergeStrategy.createMergeTarget(tempDir, path)

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About PrintCompilation

This note tries to document the output of PrintCompilation flag in HotSpot VM. It was originally intended to be a reply to a blog post on PrintCompilation from Stephen Colebourne. It's kind of grown too big to fit as a reply, so I'm putting it here.

Written by: Kris Mok [email protected]

Most of the contents in this note are based on my reading of HotSpot source code from OpenJDK and experimenting with the VM flags; otheres come from HotSpot mailing lists and other reading materials listed in the "References" section.

This

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public class SynchSB {
  StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

  public synchronized int length() {
    return sb.length();
  }

  public synchronized StringBuilder append(String str) {
    return sb.append(str);
  }

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#!/bin/bash
#
# dockerpsns - proof of concept for a "docker ps --namespaces".
#
# USAGE: ./dockerpsns.sh
#
# This lists containers, their init PIDs, and namespace IDs. If container
# namespaces equal the host namespace, they are colored red (this can be
# disabled by setting color=0 below).
#

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"sync"
	"time"
)

func main() {
	wg := sync.WaitGroup{}

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#!/bin/bash
# Copyright (c) 2010, 2011  Benoit Sigoure.  All rights reserved.
# 
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
#   - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
#     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
#   - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
#     this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
#     and/or other materials provided with the distribution.