Carmen Andoh Lyoness

Hi.

I'd like tell you about a matter that is quite personal but will result in some changes in the way I present myself and interact with the commnunity.

I am transgender.

I have known that my body did not match my internal gender since I was a very small child, but I kept those feelings hidden and did my best to make my life work with the body I was born into. The result was chronic stress, physical and psychological pain, and a severe depression that culminated in an acute crisis in October of 2012. At that time I entered psychotherapy to explore my options.

I was diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder, the treatment for which includes psychotherapy, hormonal treatments and potentially several surgeries. I have been working with my therapist and doctors, following the Standards of Care that set out treatment guidelines for my condition.

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

	aight so this is actually really fun but simple.

	so remember yr binary math (or skip this if yr confident w/ binary):

	1 2 4 8 16
	----------
	1 0 0 0 0 = 1 in decimal
	0 0 1 0 0 = 4 in decimal
	1 1 1 1 1 = 31 in decimal, etc

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
	"syscall"
	)

	func main() {

	#include <stdio.h>
	#define CONFIG_FOO 1
	#define CONFIG_NOO 0

	#define is_set(macro) is_set_(macro)
	#define macrotest_1 ,
	#define is_set_(value) is_set__(macrotest_##value)
	#define is_set__(comma) is_set___(comma 1, 0)
	#define is_set___(_, v, ...) v