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chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

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

@jhurliman
jhurliman / base64.js
Created September 29, 2011 06:39 — forked from Marak/base64.js
An extremely simple implementation of base64 encoding / decoding using node.js Buffers (plus url-safe versions)
/*
* base64.js: An extremely simple implementation of base64 encoding / decoding using node.js Buffers
*
* (C) 2010, Nodejitsu Inc.
* (C) 2011, Cull TV, Inc.
*
*/
var base64 = exports;
@artero
artero / launch_sublime_from_terminal.markdown
Last active June 14, 2025 03:06 — forked from olivierlacan/launch_sublime_from_terminal.markdown
Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl (why not "sublime", go figure). This utility is hidden in the following folder (assuming you installed Sublime in /Applications like normal folk. If this following line opens Sublime Text for you, then bingo, you're ready.

open /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl

You can find more (official) details about subl here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html

Installation

@jamiew
jamiew / google_twunter_lol
Created July 28, 2011 20:34
All the dirty words from Google's "what do you love" project: http://www.wdyl.com/
easterEgg.BadWorder.list={
"4r5e":1,
"5h1t":1,
"5hit":1,
a55:1,
anal:1,
anus:1,
ar5e:1,
arrse:1,
arse:1,
@briancavalier
briancavalier / simple-promise-retry.js
Created February 24, 2011 18:35
A few general patterns for retries using promises
function keepTrying(otherArgs, promise) {
promise = promise||new Promise();
// try doing the important thing
if(success) {
promise.resolve(result);
} else {
setTimeout(function() {
keepTrying(otherArgs, promise);
@romannurik
romannurik / background-page.html
Created September 24, 2009 05:15
A workaround for Cross-domain XHR's not working in Chrome Extensions' content scripts. See http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/43ec4d383cf8d01d
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="xhrproxy.js"></script>
<script>
setupXHRProxy();
</script>
</head>