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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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Learn you a Haskell - In a nutshell

This is a summary of the "Learn You A Haskell" online book under http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters.

1. Introduction

Haskell is a functional programming language.

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Mathematics: What do grad students in math do all day?

by Yasha Berchenko-Kogan

A lot of math grad school is reading books and papers and trying to understand what's going on. The difficulty is that reading math is not like reading a mystery thriller, and it's not even like reading a history book or a New York Times article.

The main issue is that, by the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don't really exist yet. Communicating these ideas is a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.

What can you say?

	# Usage:
	# [sudo] gem install mechanize
	# ruby tumblr-photo-ripper.rb

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'mechanize'

	# Your Tumblr subdomain, e.g. "jamiew" for "jamiew.tumblr.com"
	site = "doctorwho"

	gnome-cups-manager
	------------------

	Once upon a time there was a printer who lived in the woods. He was a
	lonely printer, because nobody knew how to configure him. He hoped
	and hoped for someone to play with.

	One day, the wind passed by the printer's cottage. "Whoosh," said the
	wind. The printer became excited. Maybe the wind would be his
	friend!

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	13:15 <xQuasar> \| HASKELL IS FOR FUCKIN FAGGOTS. YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF
	\| FUCKIN PUSSIES
	13:15 <xQuasar> \| JAVASCRIPT FOR LIFE FAGS
	13:16 <luite> \| hello
	13:16 <ChongLi> \| somebody has a mental illness!
	13:16 <merijn> \| Wow...I suddenly see the error of my ways and feel
	\| compelled to write Node.js!
	13:16 <genisage> \| hi
	13:16 <luite> \| you might be pleased to learn that you can compile
	\| haskell to javascript now