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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

Installing GNU Screen on OS X in Homebrew

I want to edit in one tab, run what I edit in the other. Typical multi-view stuff. I've used Terminal.app for the last few years. Lately, however, after not long enough, Terminal gets laggy when I switch between tabs.

The stutter between edit and run is annoying, an unnacceptable. One of the major reason I've chosen to work with character based UI is because it is snappy. There shouldn't be a lag while a screen of UTF-8 is rendered in a monospace font.

The lag gets progressively longer, chipping at my productivity with irritation. The only solution is to kill all my Terminals, which essentially kills my flow. Terminal.app won't remember where I was for me. I have to initialize ever tab.

GNU Screen

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If you are adventurous, here the process to have Hipchat working in your favourite IRC client:

First, you need to install the IRSSI XMPP plugin. You can find this package in your distribution, but I advice you to use the latest version possible if you don't want this segfault errors everywhere: http://gna.org/bugs/?20487
The first version released after the patch fix is the 0.52-2 that you can download here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/irssi-plugin-xmpp_0.52-2_amd64.deb (No dependencies so it should work in any Debian distributions)
Once it's done. You have to configure IRSSI. Either via command line, either manually in the ~/.irssi/config file. I followed this thread: http://cybione.org/lists/irssi-xmpp-list/msg00339.html and it was pretty successful.
You can find your XMPP access on your HipChat account on this page: https://boxuk.hipchat.com/account/xmpp. Everything has a XMPP account id. Even the Rooms name. So you have to use these instead of the real names for your I

	# alias
	alias ls='ls -la --col'
	# JST time
	sudo cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Japan /etc/localtime
	# package for build
	sudo yum install -y git gcc-c++ openssl-devel make
	# install nodebrew
	wget https://raw.github.com/hokaccha/nodebrew/master/nodebrew
	perl nodebrew setup
	echo 'export PATH=$HOME/.nodebrew/current/bin:$PATH' >> .bashrc

	# First install tmux
	brew install tmux

	# For mouse support (for switching panes and windows)
	# Only needed if you are using Terminal.app (iTerm has mouse support)
	Install http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php
	Then install https://bitheap.org/mouseterm/

	# More on mouse support http://floriancrouzat.net/2010/07/run-tmux-with-mouse-support-in-mac-os-x-terminal-app/

	# This is a short collection of tools that are useful for managing your
	# known_hosts file. In this case, I'm using the '-f' flag to specify the
	# global known_hosts file because I'll be adding many deploy users on this
	# system. Simply omit the -f flag to operate on ~/.ssh/known_hosts

	# Add entry for host
	ssh-keyscan -H github.com >> /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts

	# Scan known hosts
	ssh-keygen -f /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts -F github.com

	### INSTALLATION NOTES ###
	# 1. Install Homebrew (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew)
	# 2. brew install zsh
	# 3. Install OhMyZsh (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh)
	# 4. brew install reattach-to-user-namespace --wrap-pbcopy-pbpaste && brew link reattach-to-user-namespace
	# 5. Install iTerm2
	# 6. In iTerm2 preferences for your profile set:
	# Character Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)
	# Report Terminal Type: xterm-256color
	# 7. Put itunesartist and itunestrack into PATH

	# Use LVM for partitioning
	d-i partman-auto/method string lvm

	# If one of the disks that are going to be automatically partitioned
	# contains an old LVM configuration, the user will normally receive a
	# warning. Preseed this away
	d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true

	# And the same goes for the confirmation to write the lvm partitions.
	d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true