Adam Fisher therightstuff

Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.

General rules

Follow standard conventions.
Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.

Design rules

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

-#Delete local tags.
-git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
-#Fetch remote tags.
-git fetch
-#Delete remote tags.
-git tag -l | xargs -n 1 git push --delete origin
-#Delete local tasg.
-git tag -l | xargs git tag -d

	<?php
	include('g2w.php');

	$initkey = 'PEHMPSDNLXIOG65R'; // set the inital key or use generate_secret_key() for a new one

	$timestamp = G2W::get_timestamp();
	$secretkey = G2W::base32_decode($initkey); // decode it into binary
	$otp = G2W::oath_hotp($secretkey, $timestamp); // get current token

	echo 'Init key: '.$initkey."\n";