Faraz Fallahi fffaraz

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

First install Virtualbox

sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
Add deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian saucy contrib non-free
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dkms unzip
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3 --no-install-recommends
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.6/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.6.vbox-extpack
sudo VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.6.vbox-extpack

Since this is on Hacker News and reddit...

No, I don't distribute my résumé like this. A friend of mine made a joke about me being the kind of person who would do this, so I did (the link on that page was added later). My actual résumé is a good bit crazier.
I apologize for the use of _t in my types. I spend a lot of time at a level where I can do that; "reserved for system libraries? I am the system libraries".
Since people kept complaining, I've fixed the assignments of string literals to non-const char *s.
My use of type * name, however, is entirely intentional.
If you're using an older compiler, you might have trouble with the anonymous unions and the designated initializers - I think gcc 4.4 requires some extra braces to get them working together. Anything reasonably recent should work fine. Clang and gcc (newer than 4.4, at le

	import fcntl
	import os
	import struct
	import subprocess


	# Some constants used to ioctl the device file. I got them by a simple C
	# program.
	TUNSETIFF = 0x400454ca
	TUNSETOWNER = TUNSETIFF + 2

	#!/usr/bin/env python2

	"""
	Other Repositories of python-ping
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	* https://github.com/l4m3rx/python-ping supports Python2 and Python3
	* https://bitbucket.org/delroth/python-ping

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <errno.h>
	#include <string.h>

	#include <sys/socket.h>
	#include <netinet/in.h>
	#include <pthread.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <arpa/inet.h>

	[user]
	name = Pavan Kumar Sunkara
	email = [email protected]
	username = pksunkara
	[init]
	defaultBranch = master
	[core]
	editor = nvim
	whitespace = fix,-indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,cr-at-eol
	pager = delta

	#include <iostream>
	#include <iomanip>
	//
	// Utilities
	//

	// RETURNS() is used to avoid writing boilerplate "->decltype(x) { return x; }" phrases.
	//
	// USAGE: auto function(<arguments>) RETURNS(<some-expression>);
	//

	/*
	* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
	* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
	* (at your option) any later version.
	*/

	#include <arpa/inet.h>
	#include <linux/if_packet.h>
	#include <stdio.h>

	// HTTP forward proxy server that can also proxy HTTPS requests
	// using the CONNECT method

	// requires https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy

	var httpProxy = require('http-proxy'),
	url = require('url'),
	net = require('net'),
	http = require('http');