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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

Awesome PHP

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	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<style>#link1, #link2 { display:none; }</style>

	<script src="lab.js"></script>

	<script>
	$LAB.script("jquery.js").wait(function(){
	var ready = false,

	<?php

	# ========================================================================#
	#
	# Author: Jarrod Oberto
	# Version: 1.0
	# Date: 17-Jan-10
	# Purpose: Resizes and saves image
	# Requires : Requires PHP5, GD library.
	# Usage Example:

	var fetch_github_trending_repos = function() {
	var scraper = require('scraper');
	var repos = [];
	scraper('https://github.com/explore', function(err, jQuery) {
	if (err) {throw err}
	jQuery('.ranked-repositories li h3').each(function() {
	repos.push 'https://github.com/' + jQuery(this).text().trim().replace(/\s/g, '');
	});
	});
	return(repos);

	<?php
	App::uses('FormAuthenticate', 'Controller/Component/Auth');

	class HashFormAuthenticate extends FormAuthenticate {

	/**
	* Find a user record given a username and unhashed password.
	*
	* @param string $username The username/identifier.
	* @param string $password The unhashed password.

	// HELPER: #key_value
	//
	// Usage: {{#key_value obj}} Key: {{key}} // Value: {{value}} {{/key_value}}
	//
	// Iterate over an object, setting 'key' and 'value' for each property in
	// the object.
	Handlebars.registerHelper("key_value", function(obj, fn) {
	var buffer = "",
	key;

	innerWidth / innerHeight tests @ http://sandbox.thewikies.com/orientation/

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	Tested (14 devices, 28 browsers):
	Droid 2 Global Android 2.2
	iPhone 4 iOS5 (Safari, Opera Mini)
	Motorola Atrix Android 2.3.4 (Stock browser, Dolphin, Skyfire, Opera Mini, Firefox)
	Samsung Galaxy S9000 Android 2.3 (Webkit, Opera Mobile)
	Samsung Galaxy Y Android 2.3.5

	bootstrap-tooltip.js
	bootstrap-popover.js
	bootstrap-alert.js
	bootstrap-button.js
	bootstrap-carousel.js
	bootstrap-collapse.js
	bootstrap-dropdown.js
	bootstrap-modal.js
	bootstrap-scrollspy.js
	bootstrap-tab.js

	Dear soon-to-be-former user,

	We've got some fantastic news! Well, it's great news for us anyway. You, on
	the other hand, are fucked.

	We've just been acquired by:

	[ ] Facebook
	[ ] Google
	[ ] Twitter