Alex Strick van Linschoten strickvl

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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List of data APIs that require no server-side auth or private credentials, and are thus good for small browser-only JS projects.

3taps (information)
Adobe Creative SDK (image editing)
App.net
Bing Maps

Operational PGP

This is a guide on how to email securely.

There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.

Go Cheat Sheet

Credits

Most example code taken from A Tour of Go, which is an excellent introduction to Go. If you're new to Go, do that tour. Seriously.

Go in a Nutshell

Imperative language

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.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

Chrome

Download & install Chrome
Login & sync settings/whatever else

Mac OS settings

General -> Use dark menu bar
General -> Default web browser: Google Chrome

	# First install tmux
	brew install tmux

	# For mouse support (for switching panes and windows)
	# Only needed if you are using Terminal.app (iTerm has mouse support)
	Install http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php
	Then install https://bitheap.org/mouseterm/

	# More on mouse support http://floriancrouzat.net/2010/07/run-tmux-with-mouse-support-in-mac-os-x-terminal-app/

	#!/bin/bash
	#####################################################
	# Name: Bash CheatSheet for Mac OSX
	#
	# A little overlook of the Bash basics
	#
	# Usage:
	#
	# Author: J. Le Coupanec
	# Date: 2014/11/04

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import os
	import io
	import sys
	import shutil
	import re
	import string
	from datetime import date, datetime, time

	"""
	Trello to Newsletter builder

	This is heavily inspired by: https://changelog.com/trello-as-a-cms/

	To install:
	pip install click cached_property markdown py-trello

	To run:
	export TRELLO_APP_KEY=''