simX

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool YES;
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionDisabled;

// by the way, you need to logout and log back in for this to take effect.  Or at least that's what
// Quartz Debug says.  Who knows, maybe it's lying?

// P.S. Go to [Apple menu --> System Preferences --> Displays --> Display --> Scaled] after logging
// back in, and you'll see a bunch of "HiDPI" resolutions in the list to choose from.

juniorz

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'fileutils'
require 'date'
require 'uri'

# usage: ruby import.rb my-blog.xml
# my-blog.xml is a file from Settings -> Basic -> Export in blogger.

data = File.read ARGV[0]

chitchcock

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

rsms

#ifndef H_UTF8_MAPPED_UTF16_STRING_H_
#define H_UTF8_MAPPED_UTF16_STRING_H_

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <string>

/*
 * Convert a UTF-16 string to UTF-8, mapping indices to provide low-complexity
 * range and index lookups.
 *