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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

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	module Backend
	class SnippetBackend < Simple
	protected

	def init_translations
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	# A rails helper snippet I find helpful for building main navigation
	# when you want to highlight main pages (controllers) when browser
	# requests a subpage.
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	# eg. current request '/users/1/edit' but we want to highlight
	# the menu link to '/users'. current_page? will be false but
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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
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	# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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	#! /usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'watir-webdriver'
	require 'openssl'
	require 'open-uri'
	require 'nokogiri'

	# bad pinterest, having a bad cert
	OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	"""
	common-crawl-cdx.py

	A simple example program to analyze the Common Crawl index.

	This is implemented as a single stream job which accesses S3 via HTTP,
	so that it can be easily be run from any laptop, but it could easily be
	converted to an EMR job which processed the 300 index files in parallel.

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	// By Simon Lydell 2015.
	// This file is in the public domain.

	var stdin = require("get-stdin")
	var tools = require("text-frequencies-analysis")
	var helpers = require("text-frequencies-analysis/lib/helpers")

	stdin(function(text) {
	process.stdout.write(tools.jsonStringifyRow(convert(JSON.parse(text))))
	})

	package main

	import "crypto/tls"
	import "crypto/sha1"
	import "crypto/x509"
	import "fmt"
	import "encoding/pem"
	import "os"
	import "time"
	import "bufio"