Bailey Wickham baileywickham

This was a response to a Hacker News comment asking me what I've been up to since 2010. I'm posting it here since HN rejects it with "that comment is too long." I suppose that's fair, since this ended up being something of an autobiography.

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What happened after 2010?

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

	#!/usr/bin/env node

	const { build } = require('esbuild');
	// const { fileURLToPath } = require('url');
	const { existsSync } = require('fs');
	const { resolve } = require('path');

	const arg = process.argv;

	const pkgJsonPath = resolve(process.cwd(), 'package.json');

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
	)

	type Aaa struct {
	a string
	}

	# Typical setup to include TensorFlow.
	import tensorflow as tf

	# Make a queue of file names including all the JPEG images files in the relative
	# image directory.
	filename_queue = tf.train.string_input_producer(
	tf.train.match_filenames_once("./images/*.jpg"))

	# Read an entire image file which is required since they're JPEGs, if the images
	# are too large they could be split in advance to smaller files or use the Fixed

	package login;

	import javafx.event.*;
	import javafx.fxml.FXML;
	import javafx.scene.control.*;

	/** Controls the login screen */
	public class LoginController {
	@FXML private TextField user;
	@FXML private TextField password;