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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

Problem: When linking to the raw version of a gist, the link changes with each revision.

Solution:

To return the first file from a gist: https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/

Example: https://gist.github.com/atenni/5604522/raw/
Works even when you change the filename.

To get a file from multi–file gist: https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/[file_name]

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Software for scientists

Some things takes much less time and stress once you know the right tool. Below, there is a community edited list of software for scientists.

Text editors

in General purpose text/code editors. It may be better to have a good editor for everything, than different ones for different languages, scripts, notes.

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Get node binary (node.exe) from http://nodejs.org/download/
Create the folder where node will reside and move node.exe to it
Download the last zip version of npm from http://nodejs.org/dist/npm
Unpack the zip inside the node folder
Download the last tgz version of npm from http://nodejs.org/dist/npm
Open the tgz file and unpack only the file bin/npm (without extension) directly on the node folder.
Add the the node folder and the packages/bin folder to PATH
On a command prompt execute npm install -g npm to update npm to the latest version

Now you can use npm and node from windows cmd or from bash shell like Git Bash of msysgit.

Ubuntu/Debian Offline Repository Creation Gist

When I googled how to create my own offline repository of packages for use in an offline Ubuntu/Debian machine, the results were disheartening and the steps to be taken scattered all over the place.

The files within this gist will allow you to:

Download specific apt-get packages... with dependencies included!
Create a Packages.gz file so that you can add the repository folder you create to the target machine's /etc/apt/sources.list file.

	/! normalize.css v2.1.3 \| MIT License \| git.io/normalize /

	/* ==========================================================================
	HTML5 display definitions
	========================================================================== */

	/**
	* Correct `block` display not defined in IE 8/9.
	*/

	# Ask use for input

	# -e - if standard input is coming from a terminal, readline is used to obtain the line
	# -p - display prompt on stderr without a trailing new line

	default="/usr/locol/etc/"
	read -e -p "Enter the path to the file [${default}]: " FILEPATH
	FILEPATH=${FILEPATH:-${default}}
	echo $FILEPATH

TFWol

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

Software for scientists

Text editors

Ubuntu/Debian Offline Repository Creation Gist

Before using