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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

	==========================
	How Software Companies Die
	==========================
	- Orson Scott Card

	The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and
	marketing types - and vice versa.

	Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When
	you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into

	package randstr_test

	import (
	"crypto/rand"
	weak "math/rand"
	"testing"
	"time"
	)

	const (

	-- Collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and performance, for PL/PgSQL.
	-- Based on https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid
	-- Version 1.0.0

	-- Usage: SELECT cuid();

	-- BEGIN CONFIG ---

	-- Put a unique host ID (int) here per server instance.
	-- Once set, this value should not be changed.

	// \
	/*
	#include <stdio.h>
	int main() {
	printf("Hello, World from C!\n");
	return 0;
	}

	#if 0
	//*/

	// The MIT License (MIT)
	//
	// Copyright (c) 2019, @srfrog
	//
	// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

	locals {
	tls_dev = false
	}

	# Dgraph zero config for development
	resource "dgraph_node" "zero_dev" {
	use_tls = ${local.tls_dev}
	}

	# Dgraph alpha config for development

	import bisect

	class NFA(object):
	EPSILON = object()
	ANY = object()

	def __init__(self, start_state):
	self.transitions = {}
	self.final_states = set()
	self._start_state = start_state