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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

Expand virtual hard drive

VBoxManage modifyhd OSX\ Dev.vdi --resize 40960

Resize GPT

Solves "MediaKit reports partition (map) too small" error from Disk Utility

Mount virtual image via nbd sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 OSX\ Dev.vdi
Use sudo gdisk /dev/ndb0 to destroy and recreate a partition table.

How to setup your own CA with OpenSSL

For educational reasons I've decided to create my own CA. Here is what I learned.

First things first

Lets get some context first.

Nginx

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

This script enables you stop and start Symantec Endpoint Protection on OS X

Installation

sudo curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/steve-jansen/61a189b6ab961a517f68/raw/sep -o /usr/local/bin/sep
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/sep
sudo chown root:staff /usr/local/bin/sep

	#
	# Wide-open CORS config for nginx
	#
	location / {

	if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {

	add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';

	#

	host github.com
	user git
	hostname ssh.github.com
	port 443
	proxycommand socat - PROXY:<hostname>:%h:%p,proxyport=<port>

	======= Prolbem =================================================================================================================
	I have installed : ruby-2.0.0,postgres-9.2 , now in rails app when I execute:

	rake db:create , command I get:

	PG::InvalidParameterValue: ERROR: new encoding (UTF8) is incompatible with the encoding of the template database (SQL_ASCII)
	HINT: Use the same encoding as in the template database, or use template0 as template.
	: CREATE DATABASE "my_db_name" ENCODING = 'unicode'.......

	bin/rake:16:in `load'

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Notify of Homebrew updates via Notification Center on Mac OS X
	#
	# Author: Chris Streeter http://www.chrisstreeter.com
	# Requires: terminal-notifier. Install with:
	# brew install terminal-notifier

	TERM_APP='/Applications/Terminal.app'
	BREW_EXEC='/usr/local/bin/brew'