Grant Kiely gkiely

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

Okay, Kids, Here We Go...

"What You Need To Know About Your Next Domain Name"

I highly respect what Fred has done, and continues to do, to help entrepreneurs and for that I'd like to "give back" myself... and I'm posting anonymously as I have nothing to gain in anyway by sharing this information...

I'm a serial Internet entrepreneur since 1990 (pre-Web). I've been involved in hundreds of projects online (have built more than one Top 500 web site) and I've been a very active and successful domain name 'trader' along the way.

I've personally owned over 50,000 domains on and off during the past 15+ years. I've been involved in some million$+ deals, and have owned some domains that you know of (but I won't name). I've also been involved in 1,000s of smaller deals. So this is a topic I know very well.

MIT License

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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

	# Video: http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/08-chris-wanstrath-keynote.html

	Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath.

	When Jeremy asked me to come talk, I said yes. Hell yes. Immediately. But
	then I took a few moments and thought, Wait, why? Why me? What am I supposed
	to say that's interesting? Something about Ruby, perhaps. Maybe the
	future of it. The future of something, at least. That sounds
	keynote-y.

	/*!
	* JavaScript detach - v0.2 - 5/18/2011
	* http://benalman.com/
	*
	* Copyright (c) 2011 "Cowboy" Ben Alman
	* Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.
	* http://benalman.com/about/license/
	*/

	function detach(node, async, fn) {

	/*
	* Normalized hide address bar for iOS & Android
	* (c) Scott Jehl, scottjehl.com
	* MIT License
	*/
	(function( win ){
	var doc = win.document;

	// If there's a hash, or addEventListener is undefined, stop here
	if( !location.hash && win.addEventListener ){

	/**
	* simple JSONP support
	*
	* JSONP.get('https://api.github.com/gists/1431613', function (data) { console.log(data); });
	* JSONP.get('https://api.github.com/gists/1431613', {}, function (data) { console.log(data); });
	*
	* gist: https://gist.github.com/gists/1431613
	*/
	var JSONP = (function (document) {
	var requests = 0,

	[
	{
	"keys": ["ctrl+w"],
	"command": "run_multiple",
	"args": {
	"commands": [
	{"command": "find_under_expand", "args": null, "context": "window"},
	{"command": "show_panel", "args": {"panel": "find"}, "context": "window"}
	]
	}

	Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

	; This will make it appear when you right click ON a folder
	; The "Icon" line can be removed if you don't want the icon to appear

	[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\sublime]
	@="Open Folder as Sublime Project"
	"Icon"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Sublime Text 2\\sublime_text.exe\",0"

	[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\sublime\command]