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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

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	export PS1='\u:\W\$ '
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	# export EDITOR='vim -f'
	# export EDITOR='subl -w'

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	ci = commit
	st = status
	br = branch
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	dump = cat-file -p

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	// https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa2010/qa1688.html
	// tl;dr Only the first subview in the window receives orientation changes.
	// So we apply a transform manually to rotate the view, and change the origin of the frame so
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	class OAuthController < ApplicationController
	def authenticate
	oauth_token = params[:oauth_token]
	oauth_verifier = params[:oauth_verifier]

	@user = User.find_by_oauth_token(oauth_token)
	if !@user
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	else
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	def __getitem__(self, key):
	if key in self: return self.get(key)
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	require 'hmac-sha1'
	require 'base64'
	require 'cgi'

	module OauthHelper

	def URLEscape(text)
	return CGI.escape(text).gsub("+", "%20")
	end

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	require "json"

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