Matt Dickenson mcdickenson

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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Jester - Movie Ratings Data Sets (Collaborative Filtering Dataset) http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/jester-data/
Cornell University - Movie-review data for use in sentiment-analysis experiments http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/pabo/movie-review-data/

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	# Slightly tighter CORS config for nginx
	#
	# A modification of https://gist.github.com/1064640/ to include a white-list of URLs
	#
	# Despite the W3C guidance suggesting that a list of origins can be passed as part of
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	# A CORS (Cross-Origin Resouce Sharing) config for nginx
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	# == Purpose
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	# This nginx configuration enables CORS requests in the following way:
	# - enables CORS just for origins on a whitelist specified by a regular expression
	# - CORS preflight request (OPTIONS) are responded immediately
	# - Access-Control-Allow-Credentials=true for GET and POST requests


	# 1.install gource using HomeBrew
	$ brew install gource

	# 2.install avconv
	git clone git://git.libav.org/libav.git
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	import PyPDF2
	from wand.image import Image
	import io
	import os