John Duprey jduprey

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

OBSOLETE

This entire guide is based on an old version of Homebrew/Node and no longer applies. It was only ever intended to fix a specific error message which has since been fixed. I've kept it here for historical purposes, but it should no longer be used. Homebrew maintainers have fixed things and the options mentioned don't exist and won't work.

I still believe it is better to manually install npm separately since having a generic package manager maintain another package manager is a bad idea, but the instructions below don't explain how to do that.

Fixing npm On Mac OS X for Homebrew Users

Installing node through Homebrew can cause problems with npm for globally installed packages. To fix it quickly, use the solution below. An explanation is also included at the end of this document.

Removal of McAfee from OSX

Note: This was written in 2015, it may be out of date now.

There are a lot of commands here which I use sudo if you don't know what you're doing with sudo, especially where I rm you can severely screw up your system.

There are many reasons which you would want to remove a piece of software such as McAfee, such as not wanting it to hammer your CPU during work hours which seems like primetime for a virus scan.

I intend this to be a living document, I have included suggestions from peoples' replies.

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# /etc/init.d/mongod
	#
	# Modified from: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=mongod.init&package=mongodb&project=home:phprus:server:database&srcmd5=94d608ffe3ba91c10261c49ba16f3db1
	#
	### BEGIN INIT INFO
	# Provides: mongod
	# Required-Start: $syslog $local_fs $network
	# Required-Stop: $syslog $local_fs $network

	// Helps with this problem:
	// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8059914/express-js-hbs-module-register-partials-from-hbs-file

	var hbs = require('hbs');
	var fs = require('fs');

	var partialsDir = __dirname + '/../views/partials';

	var filenames = fs.readdirSync(partialsDir);

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	-- Import tasks from Things to OmniFocus
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	-- Script taken from: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=14846&page=2
	--

	-- Added: creation date, due date, start date functionality