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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

Setting up Emacs daemon on OS X

Tired of waiting for emacs to start on OS X? This step by step guide will teach you how to install the latest version of emacs and configure it to start in the background (daemon mode) and use emacsclient as your main editor.

Install Cocoa Emacs

Download the latest pretest version of [Emacs for Mac OS X]: http://emacsformacosx.com/builds

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

To run this, you can try:

curl -ksO https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nicerobot/2697848/raw/uninstall-node.sh
chmod +x ./uninstall-node.sh
./uninstall-node.sh
rm uninstall-node.sh

	#!/bin/bash

	if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
	appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
	Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

	Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

	`basename "$0"` my-script.sh

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Hatena::Diary: for writing
	// @namespace http://lowreal.net/
	// @include http://d.hatena.ne.jp/gihyo/
	// @require https://gist.github.com/3239.txt#createElementFromString
	// @require https://gist.github.com/3238.txt#$X
	// @require https://github.com/cho45/jsdeferred/raw/master/jsdeferred.userscript.js
	// ==/UserScript==
	// つかいかた:
	//

	#!/bin/sh

	#
	# a simple way to parse shell script arguments
	#
	# please edit and use to your hearts content
	#


	ENVIRONMENT="dev"

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

	CULTURE SPEC.CULTURE ENGLISH NAME
	--------------------------------------------------------------
	Invariant Language (Invariant Country)
	af af-ZA Afrikaans
	af-ZA af-ZA Afrikaans (South Africa)
	ar ar-SA Arabic
	ar-AE ar-AE Arabic (U.A.E.)
	ar-BH ar-BH Arabic (Bahrain)
	ar-DZ ar-DZ Arabic (Algeria)
	ar-EG ar-EG Arabic (Egypt)

	;SMBDIS.ASM - A COMPREHENSIVE SUPER MARIO BROS. DISASSEMBLY
	;by doppelganger ([email protected])

	;This file is provided for your own use as-is. It will require the character rom data
	;and an iNES file header to get it to work.

	;There are so many people I have to thank for this, that taking all the credit for
	;myself would be an unforgivable act of arrogance. Without their help this would
	;probably not be possible. So I thank all the peeps in the nesdev scene whose insight into
	;the 6502 and the NES helped me learn how it works (you guys know who you are, there's no