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How do I do this thing?

I'm not aware of how to use Google, how do I do this basic thing in Language X?

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edited by Grammar Nazi (2.5M), asked by 1337z0r (2)

Answer 1 (12)

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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

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import tomllib
	import argparse
	import sys
	import subprocess


	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
	parser.add_argument(

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Spamtracker
	// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
	// @version 0.2
	// @description Alerts you when new smokedetector messages show up
	// @author NormalHuman
	// @author Ferrybig
	// @match ://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/
	// @match ://chat.stackexchange.com/
	// @match ://chat.stackoverflow.com/

	# Copyright (c) 2013 Georgios Gousios
	# MIT-licensed

	create database stackoverflow DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

	use stackoverflow;

	create table badges (
	Id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
	UserId INT,

	# Changing iTerm2 color in MacOSX when SSHing (so you know at a glance that you're no longer in Kansas)
	# Adapted from https://gist.github.com/porras/5856906
	# 1. Create a theme in your terminal setting with the name "SSH" and the desired colors, background, etc.
	# 2. Add this to your .bash_profile (or .bashrc, I always forget the difference ;))
	# 3. Optional but useful: in the terminal, go to Settings > Startup and set "New tabs open with" to
	# "default settings" (otherwise, if you open a new tab from the changed one, you get a local tab with
	# the SSH colors)

	function tabc() {
	NAME=$1; if [ -z "$NAME" ]; then NAME="Default"; fi # if you have trouble with this, change

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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant