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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

Customzing the Password Reset Page

Go to the API v2 explorer and generate a token with update:tenant_settings. Then call the tenants endpoint with the new HTML:

PATCH https://{YOUR_DOMAIN}/api/v2/tenants/settings

{
  "change_password": {
    "enabled": true,

Easiest HDFS cluster in the world with kubernetes.

Inspiration from kimoonkim/kubernetes-HDFS

kubectl create -f namenode.yaml
kubectl create -f datanode.yaml

Setup a port-forward to so you can see it is alive:

	##########################################################
	# How to NEVER use Lambdas. An inneficient and yet educa-#
	# tonal guide to the proper misuse of the lambda constru-#
	# ct in Python 2.x. [DO NOT USE ANY OF THIS EVER] #
	# by: e000 (13/6/11) #
	##########################################################

	## Part 1. Basic LAMBDA Introduction ##
	# Well, it's worth diving straight into what lambdas are.
	# Lambdas are pretty much anonymous "one line" functions

	class FilterMixin(object):
	"""
	View mixin which provides filtering for ListView.
	"""
	filter_url_kwarg = 'filter'
	default_filter_param = None

	def get_default_filter_param(self):
	if self.default_filter_param is None:
	raise ImproperlyConfigured(

	from json import JSONEncoder, loads
	from time import mktime
	from datetime import date, datetime
	from google.appengine.ext import ndb
	from google.appengine.ext.ndb import query


	def to_epoch(value):
	"""
	This is a view method to return the data in milli-seconds.

	package clientv3

	import "github.com/coreos/etcd/storage/storagepb"

	// A KV executes etcd key-value operations
	type KV interface {
	Execute(KvOp) (*Response, error)
	}

	// A Txn executes multiple etcd operations atomically

	#!/usr/bin/groovy

	/*
	* Copyright (c) 2016, Andrey Makeev <[email protected]>
	* All rights reserved.
	*
	* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
	* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
	* are met:
	* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright

	#!/bin/bash -x

	exec sudo rkt \
	run \
	--insecure-options=image,ondisk \
	--inherit-env \
	--volume dns,kind=host,source=/etc/resolv.conf \
	--mount volume=dns,target=/etc/resolv.conf \
	--volume jenkins,kind=host,source=/opt/jenkins,readOnly=false \
	--mount volume=jenkins,target=/opt/jenkins \