Zach Dunn zachdunn

name: tufte-viz description: | Ideate and critique data visualizations using Edward Tufte's principles from "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information." Use this skill when: (1) Designing new data visualizations or charts (2) Critiquing or improving existing visualizations (3) Reviewing dashboards or reports for graphical integrity (4) Deciding between visualization approaches (5) Reducing chartjunk or improving data-ink ratio (6) Planning small multiples or high-density displays

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
H: preserves hard-links
A: preserves ACLs

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

	#!/bin/bash
	SOURCE=/volume1
	DEST=/volume2

	APPDIR=\@appstore

	ASK=true

	while getopts ":y" opt; do
	case $opt in

	# ... (Find this section in your local .zshrc to replace)
	# Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
	# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
	# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
	# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.
	plugins=(git osx terminalapp zsh-syntax-highlighting)

	source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

	# ...

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Colours picked from https://robinpowered.com/blog/best-practice-system-for-organizing-and-tagging-github-issues/

	###
	# Label definitions
	###
	declare -A LABELS

	# Platform

	<html>
	<head>
	<script src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.1.min.js'></script>
	</head>

	<body>
	<h2>Naive canvas</h2>
	<canvas id="naive" width="400" height="50"></canvas>

	<h2>High-def Canvas</h2>