Christopher Boette chrisbodhi

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

Sublime Text 2 – Useful Shortcuts (Mac OS X)

General

⌘T	go to file
⌘⌃P	go to project
⌘R	go to methods
⌃G	go to line
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	require 'open-uri'
	require 'nokogiri'
	require 'mechanize'


	def ffffound_pages(number)
	pg_counter = 0

	while pg_counter < 25*number

	# Located in ~/.zshrc
	ZSH_THEME="muse"

	alias desk="cd ~/Desktop"
	alias code="cd ~/Code"

	alias git="hub"
	alias ga="git add"
	alias gc="git commit"
	alias gpom="git push origin master"

	-- Can be executed from Terminal using "osascript safari_cache_clean.scpt"
	-- inspired by http://www.macuser.de/forum/f30/safari-alle-cache-544226/

	set appname to "Safari"

	if appIsRunning(appname) then
	set started to true
	-- Quit App
	tell application appname to quit
	else

	require "rubygems"
	require "twitter"
	require "json"

	# things you must configure
	TWITTER_USER = "your_username"
	MAX_AGE_IN_DAYS = 1 # anything older than this is deleted

	# get these from dev.twitter.com
	CONSUMER_KEY = "your_consumer_key"

	<!-- Add the following lines to theme's html code right before </head> -->
	<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script src="http://static.tumblr.com/fpifyru/VCxlv9xwi/writecapture.js"></script>
	<script src="http://static.tumblr.com/fpifyru/AKFlv9zdu/embedgist.js"></script>

	<!--
	Usage: just add <div class="gist">[gist URL]</div>
	Example: <div class="gist">https://gist.github.com/1395926</div>
	-->

	license: gpl-3.0
	redirect: https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/streamgraph-transitions