Shaohao Zeng GregoryZeng

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

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

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

	# 0 is too far from ` ;)
	set -g base-index 1

	# Automatically set window title
	set-window-option -g automatic-rename on
	set-option -g set-titles on

	#set -g default-terminal screen-256color
	set -g status-keys vi
	set -g history-limit 10000

	{"Archimedean spiral",
	"Archimedes’ spiral",
	"astroid",
	"astroid pedal curve",
	"bifoliate",
	"bifolium",
	"butterfly catastrophe curve",
	"second butterfly curve",
	"cardioid",
	"cardioid pedal curve",

	; The official HD AI
	; An Artificial Intelligence Script written by Archon and Promiskuitiv
	; Get in contact with Promiskuitiv by sending a mail to [email protected]


	; List of taunts it reacts to:

	; Standard taunts.
	; 33 - Stop slinging resources. If slinging is requested early and is immediately canceled it may mess up the strategy.
	; 38 - Sling Resources. Human player only, stops any unit production except for civilian units.

	"""
	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

	# compiled from https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/debian/#/debian-jessie-80-64-bit

	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
	sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates -y

	sudo sh -c "echo deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo debian-jessie main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list"
	sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D

	# Install bazel
	# download tensorflow src
	# Checkout tagged version
	# ./configure

	# Compile
	bazel build -c opt --copt=-march=native //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
	#bazel build -c opt --copt=-mavx --copt=-msse4.1 --copt=-msse4.2 //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package

	# Build the PIP package