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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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Capabilities

Another award-winning primer by williewillus

Capabilities...a wondrous new system. That you've probably been forced into using. But let's not talk about that and get straight into the learning!

Terms and definitions

Capability System - This entire system; what this primer is about. This system is named very literally for what it does.
- Capability - the quality of being capable; capacity; ability
Capable - having power and ability

Put slacktive.py somewhere on your system, then change the path in slacktive.plist
Put com.sean.python.slacktive.plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
Add your token to com.sean.python.slacktive.plist (see file comments)
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.sean.python.slactive.plist

	#!/usr/bin/perl
	#fetch Gravatars

	use strict;
	use warnings;

	use LWP::Simple;
	use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);

	my $size = 90;

	package main

	import (
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"os/exec"
	)

	var (
	BUF_LEN = 1024

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	"""
	usage: python -m sha1 <filename>
	"""
	import sys
	import hashlib

	# --- these fields are required for packaging
	__version__ = '1.0'
	__author__ = 'anatoly techtonik <[email protected]>'

	#!/usr/bin/perl

	# Copyright (c) 2010, Jeremy Cole <[email protected]>
	# Modified (c) 2014, Ivan Prisyazhniy <[email protected]>
	# - top [num] - mode to print numa map distribution from mem top

	# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
	# under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
	# by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
	#

	" https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug
	""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
	let g:plug_window = 'botright new \| resize 10'
	call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim/plugged')

	"Plug 'tpope/vim-fireplace', { 'for': 'clojure' }
	Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
	Plug 'tpope/vim-rails'
	Plug 'tpope/vim-jdaddy'
	Plug 'tpope/vim-repeat'

	[info]
	checksum=0xaf8cc86c
	version_name=v0.43.05 linux64
	complete=true

	[addresses]
	cur_year_tick=0x01a77260
	current_year=0x01a77280
	dwarf_civ_index=0x01a70a08
	dwarf_race_index=0x01a70a14