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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

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

Default

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	# How to echobot with XMPP, BOSH, and Strophe

	1. Setup ejabberd(http://www.ejabberd.im/) server and setup account [email protected]
	NOTE: localhost should be enough. If you setup something else, make sure you add it at /etc/hosts like this
	#/etc/hosts
	127.0.0.1 localhost.local

	NOTE: Also download Psi(http://psi-im.org/), and make sure you can connect to your ejabberd server.

	2. Download strophe(http://code.stanziq.com/strophe/) and place it (eg: /Users/makoto/work/sample/strophejs-1.0)

	'''
	by Adrian Statescu <[email protected]>
	Twitter: @thinkphp
	G+ : http://gplus.to/thinkphp
	MIT Style License
	'''
	'''
	Binary Search Tree
	------------------

	========================================== ==========================================
	TMUX COMMAND WINDOW (TAB)
	========================================== ==========================================

	List tmux ls List ^b w
	New new -s <session> Create ^b c
	Attach att -t <session> Rename ^b , <name>
	Rename rename-session -t <old> <new> Last ^b l (lower-L)
	Kill kill-session -t <session> Close ^b &

	# take one

	# subdirectory (one server, multiple services)
	location /btsync/ {
	rewrite ^/btsync/gui(.*) /btsync$1 last;
	proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888/gui/;
	proxy_redirect /gui/ /btsync/;
	proxy_buffering off;
	proxy_set_header Host $host;
	proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

	// Just before switching jobs:
	// Add one of these.
	// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
	//
	// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
	// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
	// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
	//
	// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
	// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,