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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

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Building a react native app in WSL2

Install, build and debug a react native app in WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and Ubuntu.

Install tools in Windows
Install tools in WSL2
Create android virtual device in Windows
Start android virtual device in Windows
Start adb server in Windows
Enable access to adb server from WSL2

Install Android SDK CLI Ubuntu 20.04 WSL2 (Work in Progress)

Install Java 8

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk-headless

Android SDK

Install Android SDK CLI Ubuntu 20.04 WSL2 (Work in Progress)

Install Java 8

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk-headless

	/*
	* Copyright (C) 2015 Jake Wharton
	* Modified work Copyright 2019 Phil Olson
	*
	* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	* You may obtain a copy of the License at
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	cd /home/<user>/
	sudo apt-get install unzip
	wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip
	unzip sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip -d Android
	rm sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip
	sudo apt-get install -y lib32z1 openjdk-8-jdk
	export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
	export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
	printf "\n\nexport JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64\nexport PATH=\$PATH:\$JAVA_HOME/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
	cd Android/tools/bin

	import java.io.BufferedReader;
	import java.io.File;
	import java.io.FileReader;
	import java.io.FileWriter;
	import java.nio.file.Files;
	import java.nio.file.Path;
	import java.nio.file.Paths;
	import java.util.regex.*;
	import java.util.Arrays;
	import java.util.Collection;

	import timber.log.Timber
	import kotlin.properties.ReadOnlyProperty
	import kotlin.reflect.KProperty

	class MyClass {
	// This will automatically have the TAG "MyClass"
	private val log by timber()

	fun logSomething() {
	log.i("Hello")