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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

	import numpy as np
	import pylab as plt
	import string
	import random

	## Just generate some data
	sets, items = 500, 200 # number of symbols, number of datapoints for each symbol
	dataset = np.random.random((sets, items)) - 0.5
	up = string.ascii_uppercase
	n = len(up)

	##############################################################

	japanimo.name=Japanimo

	japanimo.upload.protocol=arduino
	japanimo.upload.maximum_size=14336
	japanimo.upload.speed=19200

	japanimo.bootloader.low_fuses=0xff
	japanimo.bootloader.high_fuses=0xdd

	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	import numpy as np
	import pylab as pl
	import datetime
	import pytz
	import time
	from time import mktime
	from matplotlib.dates import strpdate2num, epoch2num, num2date

	tz = pytz.timezone('Asia/Taipei')

	(originally from http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=131056 by Memphet'ran)

	A little (or not so little) essay I wrote on what realistic space combat would be like. Thought you guys might find it interesting. Sorry, I admit it IS a bit long, I apologize if it's somewhat intimidating.

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	Space battles are ubiquitous in science fiction. Usually it seems to look a lot like some variation on WWII sea battles: fighters whizz around and engage in space dogfights as the great battleships pound each other with death rays. But in fact this is probably a very unrealistic depiction of what a space battle would look like. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s wondered “so what would a space battle really look like?” In this essay I will attempt to answer that question as best I can. For those who are interested, somebody else has already tackled the question on Strange Horizons, but I believe that essay is flawed in several ways, most notably the conclusion that stealth will be important in space warfa

	"""
	Match a pattern, to find what can "s____e cake" be.
	This is the hard way, and matching expressions rather than words
	would be better, but brute force is brute.
	"""
	import re

	# The English Open Word List file we need to consider
	# http://dreamsteep.com/projects/the-english-open-word-list.html
	fname = "S Words.csv"

	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2007.379986
	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SCONEST.2005.4382885