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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

The Imposter's Handbook

This a collection of interesting links found in The Imposter's Handbook by Rob Conery.

Content:

Introduction
A Little History
The Tools
Customizing The Terminal

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

Getting my Raspberry Pi set up

Getting on the network

Before the rest of this gist is useful, you've got to get your Raspberry Pi on the network. I followed the information from the Adafruint Learning System Raspberry Pi tutorials, which can be found at http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-3-network-setup.

Couple of additional network setup notes

The two files that are most important are

	$ git remote rm origin
	$ git remote add origin [email protected]:aplikacjainfo/proj1.git
	$ git config master.remote origin
	$ git config master.merge refs/heads/master

	#!/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