Peter Kos peterkos

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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agnoster.zsh-theme

A ZSH theme optimized for people who use:

Solarized
Git
Unicode-compatible fonts and terminals (I use iTerm2 + Menlo)

For Mac users, I highly recommend iTerm 2 + Solarized Dark

Extension:

import Foundation
import UIKit

extension UIColor {
    convenience init(hexString: String) {
        let hex = hexString.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.alphanumerics.inverted)
        var int = UInt32()
 Scanner(string: hex).scanHexInt32(&amp;int)

	# 0 is too far from ` ;)
	set -g base-index 1

	# Automatically set window title
	set-window-option -g automatic-rename on
	set-option -g set-titles on

	#set -g default-terminal screen-256color
	set -g status-keys vi
	set -g history-limit 10000

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

	// Finds the sum of all the primes below one million.
	#include <iostream>
	#include <bitset>

	using namespace std;

	int main()
	{
	const int NUM = 1000000;
	int count = 1;

	import Image
	import sys
	import glob
	import ImageOps

	# Trim all png images with white background in a folder
	# Usage "python PNGWhiteTrim.py ../someFolder"

	try:
	folderName = sys.argv[1]

	git branch -m old_branch new_branch # Rename branch locally
	git push origin :old_branch # Delete the old branch
	git push --set-upstream origin new_branch # Push the new branch, set local branch to track the new remote