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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

Deploy your site with git

This gist assumes:

you have a local git repo
with an online remote repository (github / bitbucket etc)
and a cloud server (Rackspace cloud / Amazon EC2 etc)
- your (PHP) scripts are served from /var/www/html/
- your webpages are executed by apache
apache's home directory is /var/www/

install php

with mysql pgsql intl support

$ brew install php --with-apache --with-mysql --with-pgsql --with-intl

set php timezone in php ini

date.timezone = Europe/Vienna

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

	var express = require('express'),
	request = require('request'),
	BufferList = require('bufferlist').BufferList,
	sys = require('sys');

	var app = express.createServer(
	express.logger(),
	express.bodyDecoder()
	);

	#!/bin/sh
	# Just copy and paste the lines below (all at once, it won't work line by line!)
	# MAKE SURE YOU ARE HAPPY WITH WHAT IT DOES FIRST! THERE IS NO WARRANTY!

	function abort {
	echo "$1"
	exit 1
	}

	set -e

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8" />
	<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge, chrome=1" />
	<title>untitled</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="" />
	</head>
	<body>

	# Set up ssh-agent
	SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"

	function start_agent {
	echo "Initializing new SSH agent..."
	/usr/bin/ssh-agent \| sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
	echo succeeded
	chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
	. "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
	/usr/bin/ssh-add;

	var parser = document.createElement('a');
	parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

	parser.protocol; // => "http:"
	parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
	parser.port; // => "3000"
	parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
	parser.search; // => "?search=test"
	parser.hash; // => "#hash"
	parser.host; // => "example.com:3000"

	if (document.addEventListener) {
	document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", init, false);
	}