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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

Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

When hosting our web applications, we often have one public IP address (i.e., an IP address visible to the outside world) using which we want to host multiple web apps. For example, one may wants to host three different web apps respectively for example1.com, example2.com, and example1.com/images on the same machine using a single IP address.

How can we do that? Well, the good news is Internet browsers

Git DMZ Flow

I've been asked a few times over the last few months to put together a full write-up of the Git workflow we use at RichRelevance (and at Precog before), since I have referenced it in passing quite a few times in tweets and in person. The workflow is appreciably different from GitFlow and its derivatives, and thus it brings with it a different set of tradeoffs and optimizations. To that end, it would probably be helpful to go over exactly what workflow benefits I find to be beneficial or even necessary.

Two developers working on independent features must never be blocked by each other
- No code freeze! Ever! For any reason!
A developer must be able to base derivative work on another developer's work, without waiting for any third party
Two developers working on inter-dependent features (or even the same feature) must be able to do so without interference from (or interfering with) any other parties
Developers must be able to work on multiple features simultaneously, or at lea

Sublime-Style-Column-Selection
Enable Sublime style 'Column Selection'. Just hold 'alt' while you select, or select using your middle mouse button. Also similar to Texmate's 'Multiple Carets', or BBEdit's 'Block Select'

activate-power-mode
Activate POWER MODE to write your code in style.

atom-alignment
A simple key-binding for aligning multi-line and multiple selections in Atom (Based on the sublime text plugin)

atom-beautify

Using Python 3 + Google Cloud Vision API's OCR to extract text from photos and scanned documents

Just a quickie test in Python 3 (using Requests) to see if Google Cloud Vision can be used to effectively OCR a scanned data table and preserve its structure, in the way that products such as ABBYY FineReader can OCR an image and provide Excel-ready output.

The short answer: No. While Cloud Vision provides bounding polygon coordinates in its output, it doesn't provide it at the word or region level, which would be needed to then calculate the data delimiters.

On the other hand, the OCR quality is pretty good, if you just need to identify text anywhere in an image, without regards to its physical coordinates. I've included two examples:

####### 1. A low-resolution photo of road signs

init.vim and settings.vim go under ~/.config/nvim Follow the installation instructions for https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug and place plug.vim in ~/.config/nvim/autoload

Brew Bundle Brewfile Tips

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	# MySQL. Versions 4.1 and 5.0 are recommended.
	#
	# Install the MySQL driver:
	# gem install mysql2
	#
	# And be sure to use new-style password hashing:
	# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html
	development:
	adapter: mysql2
	encoding: utf8

	# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
	#
	# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
	# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
	# programs.
	#
	# Once you're done here, go to
	# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
	# to learn SOOOO much more.

	'use strict';
	var profiler = require('v8-profiler');
	profiler.startProfiling();

	// ...

	var cpuProfile = profiler.stopProfiling();
	require('fs').writeFileSync(__dirname + '/foo.cpuprofile', JSON.stringify(cpuProfile));