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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

Google Speech To Text API

Base URL: https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize
It accepts POST requests with voice file encoded in FLAC format, and query parameters for control.

Query Parameters

client
The client's name you're connecting from. For spoofing purposes, let's use chromium

lang
Speech language, for example, ar-QA for Qatari Arabic, or en-US for U.S. English

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

Creating a dynamic site-to-site VPN with OpenSwan on Ubuntu 10.04 on EC2

Wes Winham [email protected]

There are many tutorials floating around the web that almost get you a dynamic VPN in EC2. The goal of this tutorial is to be a one-stop-shop for this specific setup.

Mac web developer apps

This gist's comment stream is a collection of webdev apps for OS X. Feel free to add links to apps you like, just make sure you add some context to what it does — either from the creator's website or your own thoughts.

— Erik

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
	Version 2, December 2004

	Copyright (C) 2011 Jed Schmidt <http://jed.is>

	Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
	copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
	as the name is changed.

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

	-- required SET options for indexed view
	SET ANSI_NULLS ON;
	SET ANSI_PADDING ON;
	SET ANSI_WARNINGS ON;
	SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON;
	SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFF;
	SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON;
	SET ARITHABORT ON;

	--

	There's another good reason to autowire interface types rather than class types, which is that if Spring needs
	to generate a proxy object around the bean before injecting it, then if the bean's class defines any
	interfaces, then the proxy will implement those interfaces, and will not be type-compatible with the bean class
	itself. If you then try and autowire that bean by class type, it will fail. The easiest way to avoid this
	annoying scenario is to always autowire by interface type, that way it will lways work as you expect.

	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5288153/using-spring-to-wire-directly-a-concrete-class

	import cv
	import time

	tolerance = 2

	webcam_stream = cv.CaptureFromCAM(0)

	print cv.GetCaptureProperty(webcam_stream,cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FPS)
	print cv.GetCaptureProperty(webcam_stream,cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH)
	print cv.GetCaptureProperty(webcam_stream,cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT)

	.DS_Store
	*.log
	tmp/