Chris Anderson chrisranderson

There are certain files created by particular editors, IDEs, operating systems, etc., that do not belong in a repository. But adding system-specific files to the repo's .gitignore is considered a poor practice. This file should only exclude files and directories that are a part of the package that should not be versioned (such as the node_modules directory) as well as files that are generated (and regenerated) as artifacts of a build process.

All other files should be in your own global gitignore file:

Create a file called .gitignore in your home directory and add any filepath patterns you want to ignore.
Tell git where your global gitignore file is.

Note: The specific name and path you choose aren't important as long as you configure git to find it, as shown below. You could substitute .config/git/ignore for .gitignore in your home directory, if you prefer.

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

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

	# WSL?
	if [[ "$(< /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease)" == microsoft ]]; then
	export $(dbus-launch)
	export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
	export WSL_VERSION=$(wsl.exe -l -v \| grep -a '[]' \| sed 's/[^0-9]//g')
	export WSL_HOST=$(tail -1 /etc/resolv.conf \| cut -d' ' -f2)
	export DISPLAY=$WSL_HOST:0
	# pip path if using --user
	export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin
	# SSH

	"""
	Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
	BSD License
	"""
	import numpy as np

	# data I/O
	data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file
	chars = list(set(data))
	data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars)

	#! /bin/bash
	wget https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v2.6.1/protobuf-2.6.1.tar.gz
	tar xzf protobuf-2.6.1.tar.gz
	cd protobuf-2.6.1
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install build-essential
	sudo ./configure
	sudo make
	sudo make check
	sudo make install

	.highlight { background-color: #49483e }
	.c { color: #75715e } /* Comment */
	.err { color: #960050; background-color: #1e0010 } /* Error */
	.k { color: #66d9ef } /* Keyword */
	.l { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal */
	.n { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name */
	.o { color: #f92672 } /* Operator */
	.p { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Punctuation */
	.cm { color: #75715e } /* Comment.Multiline */
	.cp { color: #75715e } /* Comment.Preproc */

	# Assuming an Ubuntu Docker image
	$ docker run -it <image> /bin/bash

	// Place user-specific overrides in this file, to ensure they're preserved
	// when upgrading
	{
	"folder_exclude_patterns": [".svn", ".git", ".hg", "CVS", "node_modules"]
	}