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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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	For each Ruby module/class, we have Ruby methods on the left and the equivalent
	Clojure functions and/or relevant notes are on the right.

	For clojure functions, symbols indicate existing method definitions, in the
	clojure namespace if none is explicitly given. clojure.contrib./ functions can
	be obtained from http://github.com/kevinoneill/clojure-contrib/tree/master,
	ruby-to-clojure./ functions can be obtained from the source files in this
	gist.

	If no method symbol is given, we use the following notation:

	# Usage:
	# source iterm2.zsh

	# iTerm2 tab color commands
	# https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html

	if [[ -n "$ITERM_SESSION_ID" ]]; then
	tab-color() {
	echo -ne "\033]6;1;bg;red;brightness;$1\a"
	echo -ne "\033]6;1;bg;green;brightness;$2\a"

	package main

	import "fmt"
	import "sort"

	func main() {
	m := map[string]int{
	"One": 1,
	"Two": 2,
	"Three": 3,

	#!/bin/bash
	# Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Benoit Sigoure. All rights reserved.
	#
	# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
	# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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	# this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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	# this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
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	-- PostgreSQL 9.2 beta (for the new JSON datatype)
	-- You can actually use an earlier version and a TEXT type too
	-- PL/V8 http://code.google.com/p/plv8js/wiki/PLV8

	-- Inspired by
	-- http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/249-Using-PLV8-to-index-JSON.html
	-- http://ssql-pgaustin.herokuapp.com/#1

	-- JSON Types need to be mapped into corresponding PG types
	--

	worker: QUEUE=* bundle exec rake environment resque:work
	scheduler: bundle exec rake environment resque:scheduler

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD