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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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(dominic: this list of papers was originally recommended to me by Brain Noguchi @bnoguchi, and was a great start to understanding distributed systems)

Here's a selection of papers that I think you would find helpful and interesting:

Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

The seminal paper about event ordering and concurrency. The important result is that events in a distributed system define a partially ordered set. The connection to what we're working on is fundamental, as this defines how to detect concurrent updates. Moreover, the chosen algorithm to turn the partially ordered set into a totally ordered set defines the conflict resolution algorithm.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/time-clocks.pdf

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2-min tutorial to do it the quick-and-dirty-way
Concepts for resolving Git conflicts
Setting up different editors / tool for using git mergetool
- Finding out what mergetool editors are supported
mergetool simple code example for vimdiff
- Resolving conflict from a Git pull
Other great references and tutorials

	#!/bin/bash

	# store the current dir
	CUR_DIR=$(pwd)

	# Let the person running the script know what's going on.
	echo "\n\033[1mPulling in latest changes for all repositories...\033[0m\n"

	# Find all git repositories and update it to the master latest revision
	for i in $(find . -name ".git" \| cut -c 3-); do

	{
	/* Keybindings for emacs emulation. Compiled by Jacob Rus.
	*
	* This is a pretty good set, especially considering that many emacs bindings
	* such as C-o, C-a, C-e, C-k, C-y, C-v, C-f, C-b, C-p, C-n, C-t, and
	* perhaps a few more, are already built into the system.
	*
	* BEWARE:
	* This file uses the Option key as a meta key. This has the side-effect
	* of overriding Mac OS keybindings for the option key, which generally

	[apply]
	whitespace = nowarn
	[user]
	name = Chen Bin
	email = [email protected]
	[core]
	# @see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/166098
	filemode = true
	ignorecase = false
	autocrlf = false

	String[] tableColumns = new String[] {
	"column1",
	"(SELECT max(column1) FROM table2) AS max"
	};

	String whereClause = "column1 = ? OR column1 = ?";

	String[] whereArgs = new String[] {
	"value1",
	"value2"

	mail_address = ''
	password = ''

	from selenium import webdriver

	UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0'
	PHANTOMJS_ARG = {'phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent': UA}
	driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(desired_capabilities=PHANTOMJS_ARG)

	url = 'https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?hl=ja&continue=http://www.google.co.jp/'