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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

gre

/*
 * This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
 * terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2,
 * as published by Sam Hocevar. See the COPYING file for more details.
 */
/*
 * Easing Functions - inspired from http://gizma.com/easing/
 * only considering the t value for the range [0, 1] => [0, 1]
 */
EasingFunctions = {

jeromer

# LICENSE: public domain

def calculate_initial_compass_bearing(pointA, pointB):
    """
    Calculates the bearing between two points.

    The formulae used is the following:
        θ = atan2(sin(Δlong).cos(lat2),
                  cos(lat1).sin(lat2) − sin(lat1).cos(lat2).cos(Δlong))

gdamjan

from dns.resolver import Resolver

# make a system resolver using /etc/resolv.conf
sys_r = Resolver()
dns = ['ns1.dreamhost.com', 'ns2.dreamhost.com', 'ns3.dreamhost.com']

dreamhost_dns = [ item.address for server in dns for item in sys_r.query(server) ]

# a resolver using dreamhost dns server
dreamhost_r = Resolver()

pfote

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
import base64
import random
import hashlib
import os


class AesCrypt256:

xuanlongma

If multiple input files are given, pandoc will concatenate them all (with blank lines between them) before parsing. -- from Pandoc website

Pandoc command: pandoc -s input1.md input2.md input3.md -o output.html

killercup

/*
 * I add this to html files generated with pandoc.
 */

html {
  font-size: 100%;
  overflow-y: scroll;
  -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
  -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}

wandernauta

#!/usr/bin/env bash

#
# This is sp, the command-line Spotify controller. It talks to a running
# instance of the Spotify Linux client over dbus, providing an interface not
# unlike mpc.
#
# Put differently, it allows you to control Spotify without leaving the comfort
# of your command line, and without a custom client or Premium subscription.
#

rxaviers

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